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  • Critical ethnography in maternity care research: bridging creativity and rigour - a discussion paper

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    Author(s)
    Newnham, Elizabeth
    Small, Kirsten
    Allen, Jyai
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    Newnham, Elizabeth C.
    Small, Kirsten A.
    Year published
    2021
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    Abstract
    Ethnography is a useful research method for maternity care research, because it can identify elements of actual practice that may be missed using non-observational research. However, because of the relative creative freedom of writing ethnography, it can be difficult for novice researchers, because there is no particular set of steps to follow. Much of the work of an ethnography is actually just watching, thinking and writing. In this paper we discuss our three individual doctoral research projects- all variations of critical ethnography-in order to present some of the creative variety of ethnography in maternity care research ...
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    Ethnography is a useful research method for maternity care research, because it can identify elements of actual practice that may be missed using non-observational research. However, because of the relative creative freedom of writing ethnography, it can be difficult for novice researchers, because there is no particular set of steps to follow. Much of the work of an ethnography is actually just watching, thinking and writing. In this paper we discuss our three individual doctoral research projects- all variations of critical ethnography-in order to present some of the creative variety of ethnography in maternity care research and to promote discussion within this field about how to maintain robust ethnographic research while keeping hold of its creative aspects. Attempts to standardise ethnographic research have the potential to curtail a very flexible methodology and constrain the knowledge generating work of the researcher. We encourage fellow maternity researchers to contribute to literature on ethnographic methodology in order to expand and refine use of this methodology in maternity care settings.
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    Journal Title
    Midwifery
    Volume
    99
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2021.103014
    Copyright Statement
    © 2021 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Paediatrics
    Reproductive medicine
    Nursing
    Health services and systems
    Public health
    Sociology
    Ethnography
    critical theory
    maternity care
    midwifery
    qualitative research
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/404261
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