{"id":172,"date":"2023-04-26T21:13:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T19:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/humsem\/?p=172"},"modified":"2024-04-08T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:06:46","slug":"march-8-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/humsem\/2023\/04\/26\/march-8-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"March 8, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>March 8, 2023<\/strong> Melina Aarnikoivu (JYU) \u201c\u2018Look a squirrel!\u2019 \u2013 Non-focus in qualitative research\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Can research ever be \u201cready\u201d before you can show it to your audience? What is behind the \u201cpolished\u201d research products, such as journal articles? Could setbacks and \u201cfailures\u201d of research be considered an inherent part of researcher growth? In this talk, I will offer an autoethnographic view on doing research as a non-focused, meandering process. The aim is to conceptualise non-focus in qualitative research; to bring transparency to nonlinear, uncertain, and occasionally messy research processes. The talk, which is based on a published paper (Aarnikoivu &amp; Saarinen, 2021), offers a methodological starting point for those qualitative researchers who want to tackle complex phenomena but do not yet know where to start and what types of questions to ask specifically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktl.jyu.fi\/en\/staff\/aarnikoivu-melina-1\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ktl.jyu.fi\/en\/staff\/aarnikoivu-melina-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr Melina Aarnikoivu<\/a> is a postdoctoral researcher at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4. She completed her PhD in applied linguistics at the Centre for Applied Language Studies in 2020. In her doctoral work, she studied doctoral education as a form of social action. Since then, she has been particularly interested in early-career researchers&#8217; academic writing practices. Her methodological expertise includes qualitative methodologies, especially doing (insider) ethnography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 8, 2023 Melina Aarnikoivu (JYU) \u201c\u2018Look a squirrel!\u2019 \u2013 Non-focus in qualitative research\u201d Abstract Can research ever be \u201cready\u201d before you can show it to your audience? What is behind the \u201cpolished\u201d research products, such as journal articles? Could setbacks and \u201cfailures\u201d of research be considered an inherent part of researcher growth? 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