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Ethical Permission for a Qualitative Research Day led by Alistair Ross
I give permission for Alistair Ross to:
1. Record the qualitative methodology research day on March 28 th 2009. This
recording will be transcribed and a copy available on request by application to
Alistair Ross.
2. Use individual participant’s research notes made in preparation for the day for
further use in his PhD, dissemination to other research groups/conferences and
potential future publications arising out of the research.
I understand and agree to:
3. Treat the interview material as confidential
Any specific comments/statements made during the day that I do not wish to be included in
the transcription can be excluded. This requires notification to be made to Alistair Ross by
April 5 th 2009.
Signed……………… Signed……………….. Date………………..
The participants came to the day having read the two texts supplied. The following
questions were asked.
What was your perception of the experience of AR?
What was your perception of the experience of the psychoanalyst?
What was your perception of the dynamics between them?
What was your overall perception of the encounter?
Here is a sample of participants’ responses on their perception of the dynamics and the
encounters of two interview transcripts and AR’s responses to these.
DM writes ‘I was struck by how much seems to be going on in an interview apart from the
topic under discussion … the topic of the discussion cannot - it seems to me - come centrestage
until common ground between the people involved is established - a sense of knowing
who you are and who we are in this situation … The image that came to mind as I read were
principally connected to dancing - people trying to find out who is taking the lead (at times
conversation felt rather competitive - some mutual display of prowess which may have been
intended to build rapport, but which may have caused some suspicion in the interviewee);
unspoken questions which nevertheless seemed to be around included: do [we] want to
dance together, what is the rhythm that is going to carry us along? This dance felt slow to
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