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“Listen” Women’s experiences of substance use, domestic abuse and support Sarah Fox Manchester Metropolitan University Supervisory Team: Prof. Sarah Galvani, Dr. Marian Foley, Prof. Hugh McLaughlin

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“Listen”Women’sexperiencesof

substanceuse,domesticabuseandsupport

SarahFoxManchesterMetropolitanUniversity

SupervisoryTeam:Prof.SarahGalvani,Dr.MarianFoley,Prof.HughMcLaughlin

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NavigatingMethodologyWhatamIdoingwithmylife?

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• Womenmakeup30-40%ofpeopleaccessingsupportforproblematicsubstanceuseinEngland.

• 1in4womenexperiencedomesticabuseintheUK.• Women’sexperiencesofproblematicsubstanceuseanddomestic

abuseisassociatedwithhighlevelsofstigma,shameandsecrecy.• Thereareisagapinserviceprovisionforwomenaffectedby

substanceuse.• Womenwhoexperienceproblematicsubstanceusearebeing

turnedawayfromdomesticabuserefuges.

BackgroundLiterature

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ResearchAim

Understandwomen’sexperiencesofsupportandhelpseekingwhentheyareaffectedbyco-occurringsubstance

useanddomesticabuse

ResearchAim

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The‘Ologies’(akaResearchParadigms)

• Whatisyourviewofreality?Ontology

• Howdoweknowsomething?Epistemology

• Whatmethodsjustifyourbeliefandwhy?Methodology

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Epistemology

• Typesofknowledge:constructivism/interpretivismvpositivism/empiricism

• Whatcountsasknowledge?

• Whoistheknower?

Ontology

• Doesreality/truthexist‘outthere’waitingtobefound?

• Isreality/truthdifferentforeveryperson?

• Istruthsubjective (relativist)orobjective (realist)orisitabitofboth(pragmatist)?

Methodology

• Bringsontologyandepistemologytogethertoinfluencemethod

• Ontologyandepistemologynaturallyguidethemethodology

• QualitativeorQuantitative?

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(PhDcomics)

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FeministEpistemology

• Feminist:seekstotounderstand“women’soppressioninorderthatwemightendit”(KellyinPurvis,1995:28).• Womenassituatedknowers• “Womenareseldomgivenavoicewithwhichtotellwhattheyhaveexperienced.”(CallandNelson,2007:335)

• FeministStandpointTheory• Epistemicprivilege

• Reflective• Positionoftheresearcher• Acknowledgesownprivilege/powerrelations

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The‘ologies’inPractice

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Phenomenology

• “whatisitliketohaveacertainexperience?” (VanManen,1990:44)

• EdmundHusserl• Experienceistranscendedtodiscoverreality(definitiveuniversalexperience)• Experienceatfacevalue• Descriptive• Bracketing

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HermeneuticPhenomenology

• Heidegger• Subjectiveexperienceandinsights• Meaning/significanceattachedtoanexperiencethroughinterpretation• Researchparticipantasthesituatedknower• ‘observationsalwaysmadefromsomewhere’(anti-bracketing)• Interpretative• Reflective

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The‘ologies’inPractice

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InterpretativePhenomenologicalAnalysis(IPA)• Subjectiveexperienceandinsights• Interpretative• Whatmatterstotheresearchparticipant.• Reflective(encouragesresearchersinsight)• Inductive• Ideographic

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ChallengeswithIPA

• DescriptivevInterpretive• Openforinterpretation• IPAvTA• AnalyticalTool• Nvivo

• Generalisability• Credibility

• Idiographic• Givespacetoresearchparticipants

IPAChallenges

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[email protected]

@ms_sarah_fox

@dawf2018

ThankYou

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