Free journal articles

The authors have collated a list of free journal articles to deepen your understanding of the key topics outlined in each chapter. Some articles are supported by helpful abstracts and critical thinking questions.

Article 1: Standing, K. (1998) ‘Writing the voices of the less powerful: research on lone mothers’, in J. Ribbens and R. Edwards (eds), Feminist Dilemmas in Qualitative Research: Public Knowledge and Private Lives. London: SAGE.

In this chapter, Standing asks the reader to think about how they represent the voices of others in research. She focuses on working-class mothers in particular and the juxtaposition of her own ‘academic’ writing and the voices of these women as she came to write up her study.

 

Article 2: Albon, D. (2006) ‘Writing up research involving child participants: Some reflections by Ian, aged 5 years’. 

In this short paper, Albon outlines her discussions with a child who was interested in the writing up process of her research. The paper says something about research relationships, children’s interest in adults’ writing and feedback on writing; comparing it to their own experience of writing in school.