The Guide to LGBTQ+ Research

Introduction

Part 1: Getting Started

Chapter 1. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome; Adam Brett

Chapter 2. Prospecting for gold: Finding your guide; Lyndsay Muir

Chapter 3. Writing That LGBTQ+ Research Proposal; Kate Russell and Daniel Rogerson

Chapter 4. The importance of language; Rebecca House

Chapter 5. Writing about your own LGBTQ+ identity; Catherine Lee

Chapter 6. Social Media and Networks of Support: Unlocking the Ivory Tower and Navigating its Halls; Charlotte Feather

Part 2: Reviewing the Literature

Chapter 7. The Purpose of a Literature Review; Alex Baird

Chapter 8. Citing them Write: Crafting Inclusive Literature Reviews in LGBTQIA+ Research; Kayden Schumacher

Chapter 9. Getting to grips with the main queer theorists; Liam Cini O'Dwyer

Chapter 10. The Joy of Foucault: How his theoretical concepts can awaken the researcher-activist within; Ben Johnson

Chapter 11. Getting to grips with Judith Butler: Exploring Gender Performativity; Catherine Lee

Part 3: Positionality: Navigating subjective identities and perspectives

Chapter 12. When research becomes personal: Infusing intersectional identities into your research; Bharat Bharat

Chapter 13. Insider, Outsider: Participating Observer on a LGBTQ+ Leadership Development Programme; Alex Baird

Chapter 14. Am I an Activist?; Frankie Frangeskou

Chapter 15. Outsider positionality: Blurring the boundaries; Julie Wharton and Rhiannon Love

Chapter 16. Navigating Insider/Outsider Dynamics: Reflections from Online Fieldwork with Chinese Queer Young Adults and Their Parents; Fengqiang Wang

Part 4: Ethical Research with the LGBTQ+ Community

Chapter 17. Rethinking and Reconceptualising Ethics in LGBT+ Research; Charlotte Feather

Chapter 18. Navigating the Ethics Application Process; Helen Bushell-Thornalley

Chapter 19. The ethical challenges of compulsory guardian consent for research with LGBTQ+ youth; Lois Ferguson and Kate Russell

Chapter 20. Ethical considerations when working with LGBTQ+ children and young people; Lucy Jones

Part 5: Methodology: Planning and collecting your research

Chapter 21. Navigating participant recruitment when working with, for and as part of the LGBTQ+ community; Grace Cappy and Alex Powell

Chapter 22. Getting your foot in the door when it seems to be closed: gaining access to participants in secondary schools; Mark Williams

Chapter 23. Valuing quality over quantity: Recruiting participants within research of a sensitive nature; Beth Burgess

Chapter 24. Conducting Focus Groups with LGBT+ Participants; David Murphy

Chapter 25. Participatory Action Research with LGBT+ Co-researchers; Cait Jobson

Chapter 26. The Power of Discussion: interviewing more than once; EJ-Francis Caris-Hamer

Chapter 27. Que(e)rying traditional approaches: Using creative methods in LGBT+ research; Lis Bundock

Part 6: Data, analysis, and discussion

Chapter 28. LGBTQ+ Participant Representation: Getting it right; Katie Reynolds

Chapter 29. Honouring your participants as people: representing the richness of neurodivergent and LGBT+ intersectional identities in data analysis; Helen Dring-Turner

Chapter 30. Conducting thematic analysis with LGBTQ+ data; Jennifer Zwarthoed

Chapter 31. Analysing narrative and discourse data; Stephen DiDomenico

Chapter 32. Quantitative queer data and statistical assumptions; Daniel Rogerson

Part 7: Conclusion: Making claims to knowledge and preparing for the viva

Chapter 33. Fun with Failure: when your research does not go to plan; Pippa Sterk

Chapter 34. Have I found ANYTHING? Making claims to knowledge and originality; R Harris

Chapter 35. Preparing for the viva; Kate Russell and Liz Wands-Murray

Part 8: Life after the doctorate: Getting your academic career started

Chapter 36. Publishing from your research; Adam Brett

Chapter 37. Sharing Queer knowledge in a heteronormative world: Navigating peer review in the publication process; Jessica Gagnon and Marco Reggiani

Chapter 38. Starting your career queer: Navigating your first post as an LGBT individual; Alun DeWinter

Conclusion