The Long and Winding Road: Archiving and Re-Using Qualitative Data from 12 Research Projects Spanning 16 Years

Catherine Dodds, Peter Keogh, Adam Bourne, Lisa McDaid, Corinne Squire, Peter Weatherburn and Ingrid Young
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Catherine Dodds: University of Bristol, UK
Peter Keogh: The Open University, UK
Adam Bourne: La Trobe University, Australia
Lisa McDaid: The University of Queensland, Australia
Corinne Squire: University of East London, UK; University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Peter Weatherburn: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Ingrid Young: The University of Edinburgh, UK

Sociological Research Online, 2021, vol. 26, issue 2, 269-287

Abstract: We describe a pilot project designed to assess the feasibility of re-use across 12 diverse qualitative datasets related to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the UK, from research projects undertaken between 1997 and 2013 – an approach which is chronically underused. First, we consider the sweeping biomedical changes and imperatives relating to HIV in this time frame, offering a rationale for data re-use at this point in the epidemic. We then reflexively situate the processes and procedures we devised for this study with reference to relevant methodological literature. Hammersley’s and Leonelli’s contributions have been particularly instructive through this process, and following their lead, we conclude with further considerations for those undertaking qualitative data re-use, reflecting on the extent to which qualitative data re-use as a practice requires attention to both the given and the constructed aspects of data when assembled as evidence.

Keywords: biomedicalisation; data re-use; HIV; methods; qualitative; secondary data analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/1360780420924044

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