- Title
- Using email interviews to reflect on women’s careers at a regional university
- Creator
- Goriss-Hunter, Anitra; White, Kate
- Date
- 2024
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/201906
- Identifier
- vital:19612
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00617-9
- Identifier
- ISSN:0311-6999 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- The article investigates asynchronous narrative research via email as a flexible and agentic method of collecting data that may empower female participants. A case study was used that focused on the challenges for academic and professional women at an Australian regional university. Twenty-one women responded by email to a range of questions about working conditions and career progression. The data demonstrated that participants found this methodology empowering, encouraging agentic behaviour as they could respond at a time that suited them and in as much detail as they desired. They could also leave their narratives and return to them after some reflection. While lacking the non-verbal markers that often add to meanings in face-to-face interviews, the participants’ writing gave voice and form to their lived experience that has been missing from academic literature. This research method may be vital in the continuing COVID-19 environment where it can be difficult to access geographically dispersed participants. © The Author(s) 2023.
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
- Relation
- Australian Educational Researcher Vol. 51, no. 2 (2024), p. 651-665
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © The Author(s) 2023
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 39 Education; Asynchronous email research; Gender; Higher education; Women’s career progression
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