So far in this weekly series on qualitative health research, I’ve talked about where QHR came from, criticality, the ‘insider’ or emic perspective, and last week focused on power. This weeks post continues the theme of power, but concentrates especially on your role as the researcher. In most quantitative research, youare supposed to disappear, to recede into the background, and protect the data from your polluting influence. Of course, this is only possible to a degree, because you have often been involved in every stage of the design and development of the study. But when it comes to the data collection and analysis stage, you are too heavily influenced by your own … [Read more...] about Qualitative Health Research – A guide for the perplexed: Part 5 – You