Brand, G. (2015). Through the looking glass space to new ways of knowing: A personal research narrative. The Qualitative Report 20(4).
“Personally reflexive and vulnerable approaches to research have
been criticized, namely as being self -indulgent or airing dirty laundry that is not appealing to the wider research community. However, I refute this argument by suggesting that researchers need to more fully understand themselves in order to understand how they interpret other people’s stories.”
“I have come to learn that my previous way of working with
people does not feel right for me anymore.” (p. 522)