Emmel, N., Hughes, K. Analysing Times in Qualitative Longitudinal Accounts of Grandparenting and Poverty


This paper will explore the analytical uses of time in qualitative longitudinal interviews with grandparents experiencing poverty.


This discussion will use as examples first, how strategies of access require researchers to


understand and be sensitive to the timescapes in which participants are situated, and within which they negotiate the conditions of their everyday lives (when they are able to be interviewed, how long it takes to arrange an interview). For our research, this was a profound illustration of how chaotic our participants lives can often be. In other words, what might appear to be a straightforward methodological process (access) analyses of temporal dimensions involved in research processes may generate substantive insights into the lived experience of the groups and individuals being researched. And, second, how as a process of 'normalising' and stabilising their grandchildren, the grandparents in our sample describe how and with whom they had to work in order to reintegrate their grandchildren into formal temporal networks (e.g., school times, social worker meetings, and so on). In this second example, we explore the interview narratives that describe and elaborate on our thinking as it developed through our access processes. Further, it provides data which allows for ongoing exploration (in future interviews in QL research) on how and whether futures can be planned for, or envisaged, for grandchildren of these participants, and where and how in peoples lives are such efforts for their grandchildren's futures being made.


Shirani, F., Henwood, K. Extending Temporal Horizons: Strategies for Studying Dynamic Lives


The need to take account of people’s dynamic lives has led to the development of longitudinal methodologies, which embody the notion of time. Indeed it is this focus on the interplay of the temporal, personal and cultural through focus on time and texture, which makes QLL unique. Whilst some temporal aspects of QLL methodology remain implicit in the collection of data over time, this paper considers the strategies used in one qualitative longitudinal project to extend the temporal horizons of participants into both short and longer-term past and future. Techniques for this have included timelines, temporal questions and a range of visual methods. We explore the effectiveness of these different approaches and their suitability for use at different points in participants’ lives and experiences.


Lau-Clayton, C., Neale, B. University of Leeds


Qualitative Longitudinal Methods and Practitioner Engagement: Examples from the Following Fathers Study


This paper will report on a Qualitative Longitudinal project, conducted as part of the ESRC funded Timescapes study, which is intensively tracking a small sample of teen dads in varied circumstances as they negotiate the transition to fatherhood and beyond. The research is being carried out in collaboration with a local authority support service in a Northern UK industrial city, through whom the sample was recruited. The close collaboration with local practitioners is a distinctive feature of the Following Fathers study. Our presentation will discuss the innovative use of Qualitative Longitudinal research and the role of practitioner engagement to help inform our understanding of teenage fatherhood, and how impact inheres in the very process of doing our research.


Hanna, E., Lau Clayton, C. University of Leeds The Use and Value of Timelines and Relational Maps in Qualitative Longitudinal Research


Within this paper the use of participant generated data, specifically focusing upon Timelines and Relational maps, within Qualitative Longitudinal (QL) research will be explored. Whilst visual methodologies have received more sustained interest in recent years and multi-method work has gained popularity and acceptance within social research, the significance of diagrammatic methodologies in qualitative research is less well established. Diagrammatic methods such as Timelines and Relational maps can be seen to have important rhetorical logic within qualitative research, and this paper will argue that that using Timelines and Relational maps in the field is a valuable means to aid the 'capture' of peoples lives, and specifically within QL research they are a useful means for identification of 'turning points' and the exploration of change within participants lives, strongly supporting the QL logic of 'walking alongside' participants. The contribution that participant generated diagrams can make to the research process will be explored within this paper via examples from the Timescapes, Young Lives and Times project. This will offer illustration 'from the field' as to what Timelines and Relational maps can provide in terms of gaining greater ethnographic depth into the lives of those we are researching.


Emmel, N. Sampling in Qualitative Longitudinal Research: Reflections from Trying


This paper will consider the challenges of sampling in qualitative longitudinal research drawing on experiences from research conducted over the last twelve years in a low-income social housing estate in the North of England with core-poor individuals, families, and groups. The key areas that will be considered are first, the negotiation and


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