The guide to LGBTQ+ research

• Other Authors: Brett, Adam (Editor), Lee, Catherine (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2025]
• Subjects: Sexual minority community > Research.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781835499689
• DOI: 10.1108/9781835499665
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 pages)

A practical and accessible guide that researchers will draw on time and time again, The Guide to LGBTQ+ Research has at its heart, a commitment to inclusivity. Following the conventions of a doctoral thesis and drawing on the expertise of almost 40 contributors from the field of LGBTQ+ research, thi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part 1: Getting Started
• Chapter 1. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome / Adam Brett
• Chapter 2. Prospecting for gold: Finding your guide / Lyndsay Muir
• Chapter 3. Writing That LGBTQ+ Research Proposal / Kate Russell and Daniel Rogerson
• Chapter 4. The importance of language / Rebecca House
• Chapter 5. Writing about your own LGBTQ+ identity / Catherine Lee
• Chapter 6. Social Media and Networks of Support: Unlocking the Ivory Tower and Navigating its Halls / Charlotte Feather
• Part 2: Reviewing the Literature
• Chapter 7. The Purpose of a Literature Review / Alex Baird
• Chapter 8. Citing them Write: Crafting Inclusive Literature Reviews in LGBTQIA+ Research / Kayden Schumacher
• Chapter 9. Getting to grips with the main queer theorists / Liam Cini O'Dwyer
• Chapter 10. The Joy of Foucault: How his theoretical concepts can awaken the researcher-activist within / Ben Johnson
• Chapter 11. Getting to grips with Judith Butler: Exploring Gender Performativity / Catherine Lee
• Part 3: Positionality: Navigating subjective identities and perspectives
• Chapter 12. When research becomes personal: Infusing intersectional identities into your research / Bharat Bharat
• Chapter 13. Insider, Outsider: Participating Observer on a LGBTQ+ Leadership Development Programme / Alex Baird
• Chapter 14. Am I an Activist? / Frankie Frangeskou
• Chapter 15. Outsider positionality: Blurring the boundaries / Julie Wharton and Rhiannon Love
• Chapter 16. Navigating Insider/Outsider Dynamics: Reflections from Online Fieldwork with Chinese Queer Young Adults and Their Parents / Fengqiang Wang
• Part 4: Ethical Research with the LGBTQ+ Community
• Chapter 17. Rethinking and Reconceptualising Ethics in LGBT+ Research / Charlotte Feather
• Chapter 18. Navigating the Ethics Application Process / Helen Bushell-Thornalley
• Chapter 19. The ethical challenges of compulsory guardian consent for research with LGBTQ+ youth / Lois Ferguson and Kate Russell
• Chapter 20. Ethical considerations when working with LGBTQ+ children and young people / Lucy Jones
• Part 5: Methodology: Planning and collecting your research
• Chapter 21. Navigating participant recruitment when working with, for and as
• Part of the LGBTQ+ community / Grace Cappy and Alex Powell
• Chapter 22. Getting your foot in the door when it seems to be closed: gaining access to participants in secondary schools / Mark Williams
• Chapter 23. Valuing quality over quantity: Recruiting participants within research of a sensitive nature / Beth Burgess
• Chapter 24. Conducting Focus Groups with LGBT+ Participants / David Murphy
• Chapter 25. Participatory Action Research with LGBT+ Co-researchers / Cait Jobson
• Chapter 26. The Power of Discussion: interviewing more than once / EJ-Francis Caris-Hamer
• Chapter 27. Que(e)rying traditional approaches: Using creative methods in LGBT+ research / Lis Bundock
• Part 6: Data, analysis, and discussion
• Chapter 28. LGBTQ+ Participant Representation: Getting it right / Katie Reynolds
• Chapter 29. Honouring your participants as people: representing the richness of neurodivergent and LGBT+ intersectional identities in data analysis / Helen Dring-Turner
• Chapter 30. Conducting thematic analysis with LGBTQ+ data / Jennifer Zwarthoed
• Chapter 31. Analysing narrative and discourse data / Stephen DiDomenico
• Chapter 32. Quantitative queer data and statistical assumptions / Daniel Rogerson
• Part 7: Conclusion: Making claims to knowledge and preparing for the viva
• Chapter 33. Fun with Failure: when your research does not go to plan / Pippa Sterk
• Chapter 34. Have I found ANYTHING? Making claims to knowledge and originality / R Harris
• Chapter 35. Preparing for the viva / Kate Russell and Liz Wands-Murray
• Part 8: Life after the doctorate: Getting your academic career started
• Chapter 36. Publishing from your research / Adam Brett
• Chapter 37. Sharing Queer knowledge in a heteronormative world: Navigating peer review in the publication process / Jessica Gagnon and Marco Reggiani
• Chapter 38. Starting your career queer: Navigating your first post as an LGBT individual / Alun DeWinter Conclusion.