Experiences of Male Eating Disorder
I wrote a piece this month for the online ED magazine, Mirror-mirror.org. Using some of my qualitative analysis of published stories, written by men who have endured disordered eating, I…
Posts Tagged: theory of interpretation
Pluralistic Qualitative Methods for Male Eating Disorders
My new project has a novel twist on studying male eating disorders using qualitative analysis. Often in qualitative research, a researcher will take a set of data from something like…
The Issue of Empathy in Interpretation
Back in August I journalled about something that I had been meaning to get my head around for quite some time, which is the ability to truly empathise with the…
The Ugly Feeling of Envy
Envy is the absence of heartfelt acceptance. Envy has come through a great deal in the Red Interpretations and before I did any specific research about it, I wanted to…
How ‘The Story of…’ has been arrived at.
For each man I’ve worked with his whole story at anyone time, resisting more traditional social science approaches to break the ext apart into smaller units of analysis. However, what…
Hermeneutic Process in Men’s Stories of Eating Disorder.
Hermeneutic Process (opens as a PDF) Today I’m posting some work I did during my research time last week to begin to attempt to find a representation of the interpretive process I’m working…
Interpretation 3 (Dark Blue Interpretation)
Now I’m busy thinking about interpretation 3 which was originally referred to as ‘Interplay’. – Knocking at the text – the story is asked questions of and answers are sought…
Interpretation 2 (Yellow Interpretation)
Similar to my previous post then, going back over my sixteen stories you’ve sent me has me (re-)evaluating what was previously blogged. Interpretation 2 – Empathic = this is probably…
Defiantly Hermeneutic
What has struck me, from my humble beginnings almost twelve months ago when my call for participants ended, is just how ‘wrong’ the current one size fits all of research…
Feel the fear…
I have been immersed in my interpretive work most of the day again, but I’ve broken off, firstly because I need a break (my eyes are going glassy from close…
Adding theory of subjectivity to the chapter.
Another short post as I’m shattered have been doing ‘work’ work and have only just swapped to doing some of my PhD. Goodness my motivation is scant after the events…