{"id":716,"date":"2025-05-21T09:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/opening-research\/?p=716"},"modified":"2025-05-21T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:50:01","slug":"philosophical-issues-in-open-qualitative-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/opening-research\/2025\/05\/philosophical-issues-in-open-qualitative-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophical issues in open qualitative research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Monday 9th June, 2025 14:00 &#8211; 15:00 (BST). Online.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this interactive workshop Natasha Mauthner, Professor of Social Science Philosophy and Method at Newcastle University, will critically examine philosophical issues in open qualitative research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The open research movement\u2014encompassing its practices, policies, concepts, infrastructure, governance, guidance, protocols, and rationale\u2014is rooted in an implicit positivist understanding of research. In contrast, qualitative research is grounded in a rich diversity of philosophical traditions, including positivism, interpretivism, social constructionism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, symbolic interactionism, postmodernism, poststructuralism, and deconstruction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This workshop invites participants to explore the tensions between the normative, one-size-fits-all model of open research\u2014often shaped by positivist assumptions\u2014and the ontological and epistemological diversity of qualitative inquiry. How can qualitative researchers from various philosophical traditions meaningfully engage with open research practices? Conversely, how might the open research movement evolve to better reflect and support the complexity and pluralism of qualitative research?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/newcastleuniversity.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/EJm2LOLqS4SU4apBlm0QFw#\/registration\">Register now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hosted jointly by Newcastle University and the University of Reading Qualitative Open Research group. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 9th June, 2025 14:00 &#8211; 15:00 (BST). Online. In this interactive workshop Natasha Mauthner, Professor of Social Science Philosophy and Method at Newcastle University, will critically examine philosophical issues in open qualitative research. The open research movement\u2014encompassing its practices, policies, concepts, infrastructure, governance, guidance, protocols, and rationale\u2014is rooted in an implicit positivist understanding of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/opening-research\/2025\/05\/philosophical-issues-in-open-qualitative-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philosophical issues in open qualitative research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,39],"tags":[55,54],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-open-research","tag-epistemology","tag-qualitative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/opening-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/opening-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/opening-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/opening-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/opening-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/opening-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/opening-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/opening-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/opening-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/opening-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}