TY - JOUR
AU - Rai, Tanvi
AU - Dowrick, Anna
AU - Qureshi, Kaveri
AU - Munro, Heather
AU - Wild, Cervantée
AU - Douglas, Jenny
AU - Ziebland, Sue
PY - 2024
DA - June
TI - How should we do racially just health research?: Learning from a qualitative study on COVID-19 pandemic experiences
JO - Journal of Critical Public Health
VL - 1
IS - 2
DO - https://doi.org/10.55016/ojs/jcph.v1i2.77774
AB - Racialised social inequalities were exposed and exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The methods health researchers employ in designing and conducting research can replicate the same inequalities, with important implications for the creation of new knowledge. In this paper, we retrospectively and critically analyse the thinking and methods we employed during two qualitative studies about the diverse experiences of people and families during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. Set within a wider literature on engaging with race and ethnicity in health research, we present an analysis based on reflexive accounts and testimonies from researchers, and close-up examinations of different stages of the research. By illustrating these ideological, practical and interactional components of research, including some uncomfortable reflections, we hope to encourage more open conversations among researchers and research funders. Through this process, we can strengthen efforts that dismantle unhelpful historical research orthodoxies and move towards re-formulating ways of research practice that are more explicitly anti-racist and inclusive.
PB - International Critical Public Health Network
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/c2195f10-993e-4e87-88e3-5be7932cd548
KW - Health inequalities
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER