In this presentation, made at the launch of the Narrative Practice Research Network, Marnie Sather introduces some of the possibilities and complexities of feminist insider research. Drawing on her experience of completing doctoral research with women who had lost a male partner to suicide, Marnie sets out some of the options for positioning the researcher in insider research – from not disclosing insider status to placing it as the centre – and describes how she came to a position of careful utilisation of her own experience in the research process and in the writing of her thesis.
Key words: research; feminism; methodology; interview; suicide; narrative practice
Sather, M. (2024). Feminist insider research [Video file]. International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, (1), https://doi.org/10.4320/10.4320/XXJX2447
Author pronouns: she/her
References
Haug, F. (2008). Memory work. Australian Feminist Studies, 23(58), 537–541. https://doi.org/10.1080/08164640802433498
Sather, M.(2021). Illuminating skills and knowledges of women who have lost a male partner to suicide: A feminist insider narrative practice research project [PhD thesis]. The University of Melbourne. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/279386
Wilkinson, S., & Kitzinger, C. (2013). Representing our own experience: Issues in “insider” research. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 37(2), 251–255. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684313483111
