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Bethlehem Tekola
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Qualitative Research | Research Ethics | Research involving and impacting marginalised communities and groups
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Now published…

We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025

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We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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nihr-rss.bsky.social
Upcoming NIHR RSS online session: Qualitative health research involving children - ethical and methodological considerations

🗓12 Jan 26 🕥 10.30 – 11.30

Register to attend: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
December 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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“Positivism Creep”

“The subtle, often unacknowledged infiltration of positivist or post-positivist assumptions into methodologies where they do not naturally, philosophically, practically, or epistemologically belong.”

By @thomasgraves.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @annayahprosser.bsky.social
Many developments to reform the research landscape have occurred over the past decade. These changes have been made with broad goals to improve the ‘openness’ of research and often assumed to be ‘methodologically -agnostic’; that is, they ostensibly have benefits for all researchers occupying all epistemological and methodological positions. ‘Open science’ initiatives such as study pre-registration (i.e., specifying research aims and analytical plan ahead of data access), open data sharing, open-access publication, and open materials sharing are becoming increasingly mainstream across many fields within social research and the natural sciences. While there has been much criticism of these interventions, largely from the qualitative research community, we want to draw attention to a troubling trend in the promotion of open science: the leaking of standards relevant only to quantitative research to all paradigms. Or, as others refer to it, “positivism creep”. Here, we situate positivism creep (i.e., the creeping of positivist conventions to all research) within research policy, we highlight its increasing prevalence within open science reforms, and we warn against a future which could alienate many non-positivist scholars. We argue that the primary framing of open science as the pursuit of reproducibility and objectivity risks promoting positivism creep in the social sciences and humanities. In particular, we suggest that overly strict open research requirements placed by funders may reduce the range and variety of epistemological positions that can be taken by researchers, with particularly deleterious effects for qualitative researchers.
December 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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rosedwards.bsky.social
I did a blog post for NCRM - Should qualitative researchers be using GenAI?
I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research
NCRM News | Qualitative research and generative AI: reflections on an NCRM seminar
Should qualitative researchers be using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)? Recently, more than 400 internationally renowned qualitative researchers co-signed a commentary rejecting GenAI for
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November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Are you worried about the devastating cuts we are seeing to arts, humanities & social sciences in UK universities? Last call for my lecture in Leicester this Thurs 27th Nov on the value of these subjects and how they support UK security, cohesion and prosperity www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
Shaping a Brighter Future
The first event in our Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series, delivered by Hetan Shah, Chief Executive, The British Academy
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November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
bethlehem.bsky.social
Is this a hybrid event?
October 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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floracornish.bsky.social
Come and join us to discuss the whys and wherefores, joys and torture of writing - in solidarity, in relations with participants, in neoliberal academia.

We have a panel, snacks, and time for everybody to take part in the conversation

Bush House KCL, 4 Nov 2-5pm
lsemethodology.bsky.social LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · Oct 17
👩‍🏫 Why do we write? Writing (together) in participatory research projects - why, for whom and how?

@floracornish.bsky.social is a panellist at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social workshop on 4 Nov, and colleagues and PhD students are invited to join

👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/why-d...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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annayahprosser.bsky.social
🎤 Proposals for our Centre for Qualitative Research, University of Bath Qualitative Research Symposium at University of Bath School of Management are open until November 7th!
Find out more and submit your talk, symposium and workshop abstracts here:
www.bath.ac.uk/events/quali...
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October 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Certified organic and AI-free: New stamp for human-written books launches www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Certified organic and AI-free: New stamp for human-written books launches
As machine-made books flood online marketplaces, a new UK initiative is introducing an Organic Literature stamp to help readers identify books created by real authors
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October 16, 2025 at 5:35 AM
bethlehem.bsky.social
hybrid conferences should be the norm, not the exception.
October 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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petraboynton.bsky.social
With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

* yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis
Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research - Impact of Social Sciences
Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating research-based knowledge. Helen Kara & Petra Boynton argue, from the outside these claims are hollow.
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October 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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vicclarke.bsky.social
New open access paper by me and @ginnybraun.bsky.social - Exploring U.K. University Students’ Social Perceptions of Dating and Physical Disability Using Story Completion. There are extensive Supplementary Materials which we hope are useful for teaching reflexive TA: awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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October 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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vicclarke.bsky.social
Melissa McCallum's important research using qualitative surveys, interviews, focus groups & reflexive thematic analysis (supervised by me) -
Exploring Black Women's Experiences in Psychotherapeutic Training and Practice in the UK - Counselling and Psychotherapy Research share.google/QAahdyVCLjtV...
Exploring Black Women's Experiences in Psychotherapeutic Training and Practice in the UK
Background Discussions around racial disparities and injustice have gained increasing prominence in psychotherapy and counselling research. However, research in this area has been criticised for its.....
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October 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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👀 ICYMI: "While 92% of undergraduate students are using Generative AI, only 36% said they had been offered support by their university"

#AcademicSky #HigherEducation
A new academic year has begun, but UK universities are still struggling to respond to AI - Impact of Social Sciences
Mark Carrigan argues university staff are still struggling to develop coherent, contextual and disciplinary responses to AI’s impact on teaching and learning.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels
Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive
www.thetimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
bethlehem.bsky.social
Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured
Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today
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October 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
bethlehem.bsky.social
Stunning!
October 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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quahrc.bsky.social
Messy, emotional, and necessary: PhD student and research assistant Jo Law reflects on ethical #QualitativeResearch with marginalised groups in this month's #ResearchImpact blog:

www.quahrc.co.uk/podcasts-blo...

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Jo Law on Messy, Emotional and Necessary Ethical Research with Marginalised Populations | QUAHRC
Jo Law is a qualitative research assistant at the Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre at King’s College London, working on the qualitative component of the EDEN project, which examines the use ...
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October 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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elhopkins.bsky.social
Long Covid has now overtaken Asthma in the US, as a cause of chronic health disease in children. There is currently no cure. Yet no action is being taken and Violet Affleck is very much on point.
September 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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folukeifejola.bsky.social
This is an essay, a reading list and a poem on why I think Pan-Africanism, Afrofuturism and Decolonisation can be insightful tools for realising visions of flourishing future worlds for all.
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Pan-Africanism, Afrofuturism and Decolonisation: A reading list
Knowledge will be the first frontier of our freedom.
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September 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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quahrc.bsky.social
Unequal pressures: new #qualitative work from the QUAHRC team explores how young people from different backgrounds had very different #Covid experiences, and why this is still relevant to widening inequality

www.kcl.ac.uk/how-disadvan...
Unequal pressures: how disadvantage shaped young people's education…
School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just disrupt learning, they revealed and intensified deep inequalities that continue to shape young people’s lives today. While some children…
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September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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mikeyearworth.bsky.social
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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crmethodsjnl.bsky.social
How do researchers study experiences that are "too shattering to put into words"? MAshNup method uses art-making, metaphor analysis, and narrative techniques to help participants explore difficult experiences in ethical, sensitive ways.

Read the article here: doi.org/10.1332/3050...
September 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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petraboynton.bsky.social
Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students
Highly educated Kenyans working for essay mills ghostwrite academic work that students pass off as their own
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM