Social and Behavioural Health Sciences Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, 7938University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Qual Health Res. 2022 Sep;32(11):1635-1647. doi: 10.1177/10497323221112620. Epub 2022 Jul 5.
In response to decades-long exclusionary practices, academic institutions are now recruiting early career researchers (ECRs) from systemically marginalized populations who specialize in equity-related research. As a result, these ECRs are likely to conduct research within their communities on topics that have personal relevance-insider research. Methodological training for insider research places an emphasis on methods, such as reflexivity, to ensure rigor; however, the emotional and psychological impacts of these research methods on the researcher are seldom discussed. Therefore, I use analytic autoethnography to illustrate the embodied impacts of conducting insider research using an example of personal relevance and argue that methodological practices require an embodied reflexivity that centers the researcher and the impacts the research has on them. This paradoxically rewarding and taxing work necessitates changes in methodological training and practice, institutional support, and an openness to innovation when calling for equity, diversity, and inclusion in the academy.
针对数十年来的排外做法，学术机构现在正在招募专门从事与公平相关研究的、来自体制上处于边缘地位的群体的早期职业研究人员（ECR）。因此，这些 ECR 很可能会在他们的社区中就与个人相关的主题进行研究——内部研究。内部研究的方法论培训强调方法，例如反思，以确保严谨性；然而，这些研究方法对研究人员的情感和心理影响很少被讨论。因此，我使用分析自传体民族志来说明使用个人相关性进行内部研究的具体影响，并认为方法实践需要一种以研究人员为中心的、体现研究人员的身体反思，以及研究对他们的影响。这种具有悖论性的、既有益又耗费精力的工作需要改变方法论培训和实践、机构支持，以及在呼吁学术界的公平、多样性和包容性时，对创新持开放态度。
