‘Please explain to me how I’m vulnerable’: Learning how to rework experiences of researcher vulnerability by listening carefully to care experienced young people

Mannay, Dawn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7368-4111 2023. ‘Please explain to me how I’m vulnerable’: Learning how to rework experiences of researcher vulnerability by listening carefully to care experienced young people. Clift, Bryan C., Costas Batlle, Ioannis, Bekker, Sheree and Chudzikowski, Katharina, eds. Qualitative Research Vulnerability: Negotiating, Experiencing and Embracing, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 222-237.

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Abstract

This chapter explores how vulnerability operates throughout the research process, exploring the affective elements of negotiation within research relationships. It considers research both within and beyond the field, examining the role of reflexivity, emotion, and vulnerability in active research relationships, in the process of analysis, and in the everyday encounters, interactions and recollections which act on and through the researcher. The paper draws on research with care-experienced communities in Wales who are often positioned as ‘vulnerable’ in ways that makes ‘vulnerability’ a failing rather than an artefact of social inequalities. In working with care-experienced young people and listening to their accounts of misrecognition, resilience, and adaption but also of ongoing forms of loss and absence, the researcher can experience different forms of vulnerability. However, listening carefully to young people labelled as ‘vulnerable’ can also provide opportunities to reframe vulnerabilities and make them a productive component of qualitative research.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) L Education > L Education (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Care-experienced children and young people, impact case study, labelling, positioning, structural inequalities, vulnerability
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9781032393339
Last Modified:	25 May 2023 11:21
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/159352

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