Emotion, empathy and exit: reflections on doing ethnographic qualitative research on sensitive topics

By J. Watts. 2008

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• The emotional labour of gaining and maintaining access to the field (2015, background): “Other accounts call attention to the emotional strain on the researcher when researching sensitive topics (Dickson-Swift et al., 2009; Goodrum and Keys, 2007; Watts, 2008).”
• Practitioner’s Digest (2016, background): “Other forms of self-care as well as establishing a support network may be useful (Watts, 2008).”
• CHE Principles: facilitating authentic and dialogical semi-structured interviews in educational research (2017, background): “This ‘giving of one’s whole attention as committed presence’, as part of enacting the Empathy principle, requires a significant degree of emotional intelligence (Watts 2008, 9).”