Allison

Backett

Beale

Bennett

Blix

Bloor

Bondi

Burr

Bury

Cannon

Carroll

Charmaz

Davidson

Dickson-Swift

Dyck

Elder

Emerald

Evans

Exley

Frank

Hochschild

Hubbard

Hutchison

Kristofferzon

Laurier

Madiega

Milligan

Minichiello

Parr

Phillips

Punch

Sampson

Widdowfield

Williams

Woodby

Worth

Sarah McGarrol

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The emotional challenges of conducting in-depth research into significant health issues in health geography: reflections on emotional labour, fieldwork and life course

Emotions are increasingly being recognised and integrated into human geography and it has been highlighted that focusing on the 'interrelatedness' of the research process is crucial. By contextualising fieldwork within the life course of the researcher, greater acknowledgement of the 'emotional labour' involved in fieldwork can be highlighted. The author reflects on the 'emotional geographies' of conducting PhD research into significant health issues with participants who had recently suffered a heart attack in Fife, Scotland. This paper reveals emotions involved in this kind of research, drawing on perspectives from participants as well as the researcher. The author also draws attention to, and reflects on, the lack of engagement with researcher's emotional labour within formal academic structures, such as research training and ethics application processes. Reflecting on fieldwork experiences from a distance, the author discusses the influence and impact of her emotional experiences of fieldwork. This paper contributes to work concerned with emotions and fieldwork in geography and asserts that greater importance and value needs to be given to this type of emotion work as embedded and situated within researchers' life courses

McGarrol, Sarah

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The emotional challenges of conducting in-depth research into significant health issues in health geography: reflections on emotional labour, fieldwork and life course

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