Working groups considering fundamental questions concerning the pursuit of transparency in qualitative empirical research, which cut across the particular forms of research in which qualitative scholars engage
Costs, benefits, and practicalities of different ways of institutionalizing the promotion of research transparency – and their interaction with power and resource differentials in the profession
Working groups considering what it means to be transparent when working with two kinds of empirical sources commonly considered by qualitative researchers.
Because transparency requirements would impose enormous logistical burdens and costs on qualitative researchers, and very disproportionately on us, I oppose these initiatives. All these efforts would create even more disincentives against qualitative research, and that's precisely what our "dis...