Lived Experience, Reflexivity, and Research on Perpetrators of Interpersonal Violence

Gilgun, Jane. (2008). Qualitative Social Work, 7 (2), 181-197.

Emphasizing that researchers are part of research similar to the researched, Gilgun delineates her position of reflexivity:

My working definition of reflexivity involves the idea of awareness – that researchers are reflexive when they examine and take into account the multiple influences they have on research processes and how research processes affect them and the persons and situations they research (Gilgun, 2006). Examples of reflexive processes include informants and researchers’ experience of research
processes, relationships between researchers and informants, and changes informants and researchers undergo in the course of participating in research. (p. 184).