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Making the Long View:
Archiving, Representing and Sharing a Qualitative Longitudinal Resource
March 2005 – August 2006
Making the Long View
Debby Holder & Jorge Camacho
Sheila Henderson, Janet Holland, Rachel ThomsonSheena McGrellis & Sue Sharpe
Based in the Families & Social Capital ESRC Research Group
London South Bank University
The Inventing Adulthoods study
• A unique QL study combining three ESRC-funded studies from 1996-2006
• Rich biographical accounts of all aspects of life of a diverse group of 100 young people (aged 11-19 in 1996, now aged 20-28) growing up in five areas of the UK
• Methods: biographical interviews, focus groups, lifelines, memory books, questionnaires, research assignments
The Inventing Adulthoods
dataset
Age Questionnaire
Focus Group
Interview Lifeline Memory
book
Research
Assignmt
Youth Values
1996-99 11-17 1800
331
62 grps
Int 1
57 272
Inventing Adulthoods
1999 - 2001
14-23Int 2
121
104
Int 3
98
49
Int 4
83
Revisited at this round
4 groups
Youth
Transitions
2002 - 2006 17-28
Int 5
70
Int 6
64
Inventing Adulthoods Case DataRaw• Questionnaire (up to 3)• Individual interview audio cassette and transcript (up to 6)• Focus group audio cassette and transcript (up to 2)• Lifeline (& follow-up)• Memorybook
Contextual /Research process• Researcher’ fieldnotes• Researcher’ reflections• Young people’s reflections• Young people reflect on listening to their tapes
Analysis• First stage: narrative analysis, case profile• Published and unpublished case studies
Making the Long View: Archiving the Inventing Adulthoods study
Explore creative ways of overcoming ethical & practical problems involved in providing access to a qualitative longitudinal (QL) dataset
OUTPUTS• A detailed, ethically sound, contextualized, partial QL data set of
young people’s experiences of growing up in five areas of the UK at the turn of the century ready for deposit and sharing /-reuse (10 cases)
• A network of secondary users for the archived dataset• An exemplar of good methodological and ethical practice in the
archiving and sharing of qualitative data • An assessment of the costs involved in archiving a QL dataset
Making the Long View: Progress
• (Re)use of the dataset facilitated and these dataset users consulted. An important basis for developing ethical selection criteria and methods of renegotiating consent and of representing data
• Case selection: initial criteria, selection & consent; consent process with 10 yp begun
• Data collation / digitisation (sample of 25)
• Contextualisation process begun
Contextual data collected during the Inventing Adulthoods study
• Methodology development process• Research process and relationship:
- YP’s reflections on the research process
- YP’s reflections on listening to their tapes
- Researcher’ fieldnotes, predictions, reflections
Making the Long View
Contextual data collected for Making the Long View
• Digital audio clips edited from a focus group : researcher reflections
(e.g. Maintaining a research team, sample maintenance, gatekeepers, locality, participatory approach, effects on young people & on researchers, ‘walking alongside’)
Making the Long View
Capturing and describing context: time as the organising theme
Methodology Research TimeCross-sample data Historical Time
Biographical data Biographical Time
www.lsbu.ac.uk/inventingadulthoods
Making the Long View