Temporality in Qualitative Inquiry: Theories, Methods and Practices

Temporality in Qualitative Inquiry explores the relationship between time and qualitative research and unpacks some of the conceptual, methodological, practical, and pragmatic areas of qualitative inquiry related to time and temporality.

This book advances the understanding and re-evaluation of research practice by examining the passage of time, temporal feeling, and conceptualising of time/temporality in research practice with participants. It provides theoretical and practical insights into how to navigate the concepts of time and temporality in qualitative inquiry. With authors from across the globe and from an array of social sciences including cultural studies, education, health, management and business, psychology, sociology, and sport and exercise, the book explores theoretical, methodological, and practical discussions of time and temporality in order to unpack and elicit meaning and understanding.

The editors champion the call for the existence of slow and quick qualitative methodologies and methods. As such, this book is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in qualitative inquiry, and in disciplines such as education, health research, management, psychology, sociology, and communication studies.

Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003083504-3

Bryan C. Clift is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department for Health at the University of Bath, UK, and Director of the Centre for Qualitative Research.

Julie Gore is Reader in Organizational Psychology in the School of Management at the University of Bath, UK, and Director of the Centre for Qualitative Research.

Stefanie Gustafsson is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Management, University of Bath, UK.

Sheree Bekker is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department for Health at the University of Bath, UK, and Co-Director of the Centre for Qualitative Research.

Ioannis Costas Batlle is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, UK, and Co-Director of the Centre for Qualitative Research.

Jenny Hatchard is Research Fellow in Public Health at the University of Bristol, UK.