This edited volume explores how to effectively and ethically conduct social science research and work with marginalized and vulnerable populations. The contributors draw on their own studies to guide readers through the main phases of research, including study design, data collection, and data analysis.
This edited volume explores how to effectively and ethically conduct social science research and work with marginalized and vulnerable populations.
Many researchers find themselves unprepared for the challenges of studying or working with populations that may be outside their personal expectations and experiences, affecting their ability to accurately represent the lived experiences of marginalized and vulnerable communities. Written by a diverse group of international scholars within the fields of strategic communication and communication studies, this book provides real-world insights from researchers who not only have direct experience working with marginalized populations, but many of whom are members of these communities. Imperatives include critical lessons for access and accessibility in research. Contributors draw on their own studies to guide readers through the main phases of research, including study design, data collection, and data analysis.
The book is especially suited as a supplementary text for researchers and students studying qualitative research methods in strategic communication and communication studies.
Introduction: Why Methods for the Marginalized? Part 1: Vulnerabilities
of Race
1. Using community-based participatory research for interventions
with hard-to-reach populations
2. Trauma-informed outreach with black
stakeholders: Lessons on listening during community activism against police
brutality
3. Navigating co-creative storytelling with culturally and
linguistically diverse participants: Ethics, authenticity, and sensemaking
4.
Reaching invisible ethnocultural communities: Establishing partnerships with
difficult-to-reach populations
5. Deservingness and the challenge of studying
the unrecognized: Cultivating trust with Russians in exile Part 2:
Vulnerabilities of Gender and Sexual Orientation
6. Developing interviewer
skill for crisis-affected populations: Insights from the refugee crisis
7.
Conducting health campaign research with transgender and gender diverse
individuals: Co-creation as a community-based participatory strategy
8.
Biographical-narrative research: Experiences with indigenous women in higher
education
9. Navigating the complexities of research with marginalized groups
in Turkiye: Methodological challenges and strategies Part 3: Vulnerabilities
of Status
10. Studying those who suffer for truth-telling: Navigating
recruitment, emotional dissonance, and representation in whistleblowing
research
11. Digital inclusion for justice-impacted communities: Empirical
research, community partnerships and evidence-based interventions with women
in the carceral system
12. Action-inspired research for income inequality:
Championing voice for low-income women
13. Appalachian social cohesion:
Interviewing, engagement and participant observation in rural Appalachian
media markets
14. About us not without us: Including the expertise of lived
experience in a participatory action research project about homelessness Part
4: Vulnerabilities of Place
15. Vulnerabilities of war, violence, and virus:
Co-constructing the relationally attentive approach to engaged scholarship in
post-civil war and Ebola-torn Liberia
16. Research on the road: Empowering
narrators at the margins through oral history
17. Hybrid participatory
processes in liminal communities: Methods of analysis and intervention
18.
Navigating power dynamics in community-centered research design in the global
south
19. Collecting context and seeking sensitivity: Insights from in-depth
interviews with migration NGOs in Austria
20. Navigating university
bureaucracy in participatory methods: The case of a colonia Part 5:
Vulnerabilities of the Individual
21. Beyond stereotypes: Empowering methods
in disability research in media and communication
22. Mental illness
advocacy: A feminist epistemological approach to learning from the mental
health community
23. Adolescents as vulnerable population in the online
environment: A collaborative citizen science project
24. Tapping autistic
expertise: Inclusive peer review by autistic scholars in autism
inclusion-related inquiry
25. The invisible struggle: Navigating stigma and
distrust in mental illness research
Staci B. Smith is visiting scholar at the University of Mississippi, USA.
Brian G. Smith is Professor and department Chair of Integrated Marketing Communications at the University of Mississippi, USA.
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