Shoestrings and bricolage: some notes on researching the impact of a child's death on family relationships.
An earlier version of this paper appeared as the appendix to our recent book, An Intimate Loneliness: Supporting Bereaved Parents and Children (G. Riches & P. Dawson, 2000). In it, we attempt to offer a brief history of the processes we have gone through in taking a simple research question, developing it into a practical proposal, experiencing how it shifted as we explored it, accounting for the changes that our broader reading imposed on our perceptions of what we were doing, and, finally, how the data itself and our efforts to understand it, resulted in a set of broad theoretical propositions rather than any tight conclusions.
Riches
Gordon
G
University of Derby, Derby, England. g.riches@derby.ac.uk
Dawson
Pam
P
D001601:Bereavement; D002648:Child; D003643:Death; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005195:Family Relations; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D012107:Research Design