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Emotions and Reflexivity in Health & Social Care Field Research

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Editors:
  1. Helen T. Allan

    1. Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

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  2. Anne Arber

    1. University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

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  • Explores how emotions motivate reflexivity in research practice
  • Discusses strategies to reflexivity through emotional involvement in the field
  • Describes how reflexive strategies can be adopted through journaling, internal dialogues, peer support, academic supervision

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Helen T. Allan, Anne Arber
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Natural History of a Doctoral Research Study: The Role of a Research Diary and Reflexivity

    • Sarah Li
    Pages 13-37

  4. Emotions in the Field: Research in the Infertility Clinic

    • Helen T. Allan
    Pages 39-56

  5. Managing the Dual Identity: Practitioner and Researcher

    • Anne Arber
    Pages 57-74

  6. Ethics and Reflexivity in Researching HIV-Related Infertility

    • Tam Chipawe Cane
    Pages 75-94

  7. Fieldwork with Vulnerable Young People

    • Kit Tapson
    Pages 95-115

  8. Fieldwork in Other Cultures

    • Nicola Ayers
    Pages 117-132

  9. Emotion Work in Ethnography

    • Ginny Mounce
    Pages 133-158

  10. Pulling it All Together: Emotional Reflexivity in Health and Social Care Field Research

    • Helen T. Allan, Anne Arber, Nicola Ayers, Tam Chipawe Cane, Sarah Li, Ginny Mounce et al.
    Pages 159-165

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 167-170
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About this book

This book is about emotions and reflexivity when doing field research in health and social care settings. Health and social care students often undertake field research in their own area of practice using observation and interviews. All contributing authors have a dual identity as researchers and health or social care professionals. Their chapters draw on research carried out in a number of fields including HIV related infertility and adoption, primary care in Africa, cancer and palliative care, infertility and excluded young people to explore issues relevant to emotions and reflexivity from the perspective of the researcher and research participants. 

The book was born of the two editors, who are experienced research supervisors, observing that many PhD students struggle to manage the emotions elicited in the field when researching. They identify three main causes - health and social care deals with painful topics; observation and interviews bring student into contact with powerful feelings which need processing; there is very little advice and discussion of how a PhD student manages emotions in the field and students therefore frequently struggle on their own. 


This insightful volume will be of great interest to scholars and students in all areas of academic study, but particularly to those who chose to study health and social care whether they are professionals or not.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

    Helen T. Allan

  • University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

    Anne Arber

About the editors

Helen Allan is Professor in Nursing at the Centre for Critical Research in Nursing & Midwifery, Middlesex University, London, UK. She was awarded her PhD in 2000 from the Royal College of Nursing Institute/University of Manchester and has supervised PhD and clinical doctorates since 2002.


Anne Arber is Senior Lecturer in Cancer and Palliative Care, School of Health Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK. She was awarded her PhD in 2004 from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She conducts research in cancer and palliative care and has supervised PhD and clinical doctorate students since 2004.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Emotions and Reflexivity in Health & Social Care Field Research

  • Editors: Helen T. Allan, Anne Arber

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65503-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65502-4Published: 14 December 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88044-0Published: 05 September 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65503-1Published: 27 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 170

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Medical Sociology, Sociology of the Body, Research Methodology, Emotion, Psychotherapy and Counseling

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