KWALON - Volume 28, Issue 2, 2023

Abstract Template analysis: Useful, but prejudice-affirming if applied incorrectly Template analysis offers useful methodological steps to perform thematic analysis, but an important presentation of these steps contains philosophical and methodological misspecifications. These misspecifications not only lead to questionable prescriptions, they also provide the possibility for a prejudiceaffirming way of resear Read More

Abstract ‘You understand me, right?’. Health research among the Moroccan community in the Netherlands Based on a secondary analysis of three qualitative studies, we describe three tensions that arose when conducting health research within the Moroccan community in the Netherlands. Namely, the tension between (1) the need for an informal recruitment approach and preventing participation as a soc Read More

Abstract Reflections on the practice and ethics of covert ethnography In scientific studies involving human subjects, voluntary informed consent is often regarded as a basic standard for ethical research. However, when it comes to ethnography involving the collection of data through (participant-) observation, this can present significant challenges. Ethnographers are often required to embed themselves i Read More