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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Re-thinking Social Research:
Anti-discriminatory Approaches in
Research Methodology
I. Humphries, Beth EL Truman, Carole
300.72
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Re-thinking social research: anti-discriminatory approaches in
research methodology / edited by Beth Humphries, Carole Truman.
p. cm
Includes index
ISBN 1-85628-422-5: $58.95 (est:U.S.)
1. Social policyResearchMethodology. 2. Social service
-ResearchMethodology. 3. Discrimination. I. Humphires, Beth,
1940- H. Truman, Carole, 1960
HN29.R36 1994
30072-dc20
94-10773
CIP
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Contents
Carole Truman and Beth Humphries
Carole Truman
Ravinder Barn
Kathleen Pitcairn
Lynn Keenaghan
Derek Clifford
Marion Martin
Mary Scally and Stephen Beyer
Bob Broad
Beth Humphries
Ravinder Bam is a Lecturer in Applied Social Studies in the Department of Social Policy and Social Science, Royal Holloway College, University of London. She taught at Middlesex Polytechnic before joining Royal Holloway in 1990. Dr Barn is the author of Black Children in the Public Care System, published by Batsford.
Stephen Beyer is Deputy Director of the Welsh Centre on Learning Disabilities, University of Wales, College of Medicine in Cardiff. He has carried out extensive research in the areas of day services and employment for people with learning disabilities as well as research on the contributions of training and quality assurance to organisational change.
Bob Broad is Development Manager with the Royal Philanthropic Society, a voluntary organisation based in Kent helping young people at risk in London and the South East. He has been a probation officer and a social work lecturer at the London School of Economics and the University of Westminster. He is currently an academic examiner, as well as a CCETSW external assessor to a DIPSW programme.
Derek Clifford now teaches social work at Liverpool John Moores University. Previously, whilst involved in parenting two children, he was a childcare social worker, having qualified in 1979. Prior to this, he lectured in political theory in Australia and the West Indies, completing his doctorate in 1972.
Beth Humphries has worked in the social work statutory and voluntary sector, and has carried out research in a number of areas including professional ideologies, women and computer assisted learning. She completed her doctorate in 1983 and since has been teaching in higher education. She is currently head of social work at The Manchester Metropolitan University.
Lynn Keenaghan graduated as a mature student following extensive employment experience with a number of voluntary agencies in the Midlands. After graduation she worked as a freelance HIV trainer and researcher. She is author of Voluntary Contributions?, a report on the potential for voluntary sector HIV provision in Macclesfield district (1993), distributed by the Health Promotion Unit, Macclesfield. She is currently research and development officer for a social services policy development unit in Oldham.
Marion Martin has worked in nursing, social work and higher education. She has a special interest in community education working within a people-centred philosophy. In addition to her UK experience she has worked in community health in rural South India and Tanzania. She is currently a lecturer in Education for Primary Health Care at the University of Manchester.
Kathleen Pitcairn studied for a BA in Sociology and then a MSc in Social Research Methods at Teesside Polytechnic whilst working in an Adult Training Centre. Later, employed as a Research Associate on a project conducted by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, she helped to evaluate schemes of care in the community for people with a learning disability.
Mary Scally is a lecturer in the Centre for Applied Social Studies, Swansea University. She has played a prominent role in the field of community development in Ireland. Since 1985 she has been engaged in research in Wales on unemployment and poverty, and more recently on the contribution of training to organisational change.
Carole Truman is senior lecturer in the Department of Applied Community Studies at The Manchester Metropolitan University where she teaches methods of social research at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has undertaken research in the areas of Equal Opportunities, Women and Work She is currently Principal Investigator in a project evaluating the planning and provision of services to elderly people.
Social research has applications in academic settings and in the planning and evaluation of services to the public, private and voluntary sectors. This book is for those in academic institutions and in the welfare professions who have been seeking to explore the theoretical and practical possibilities of anti-discriminatory research. It is an attempt to provide an opportunity to consider where we have come to in attempts to make perspectives of oppressed groups central to the research process.
Originally we had hoped to explore these issues in a conference setting, but for a number of reasons the conference did not take place. The interest that was generated to the idea of a conference in anti-discriminatory research was sufficient to bring together a number of researchers who wanted to share their experiences of doing research within a broad anti-discriminatory framework. There are not many spaces for critical social research with respect to sexism, racism, poverty, sexuality, disability, inequality, and those who have contributed to this volume show a fair degree of courage in defying such a climate to make alternative voices heard. We are grateful to all our contributors, not just for the chapters they have written but for the implicit support they have given to this project along the way.
The volume has been constructed in a political climate which is not encouraging to an examination of issues of inequality. Indeed a preoccupation with isms and ologies is under attack by for example Alastair Law in the Sunday Express, 11.4.93 and Brian Appleyard in the Independent 4.8.93. Hostile articles such as these in national newspapers are indicative of the backlash against any attempt to tackle inequality. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown describes this as McCarthyism to counteract imagined totalitarianism (Independent 11.8.93).
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