Uneasy bedfellows? Fusing participatory and psychosocial principles in research with youth workers and young people
Harris, Peter (2019) Uneasy bedfellows? Fusing participatory and psychosocial principles in research with youth workers and young people. Journal of Psychosocial Studies, 12 (3). pp. 245-257. ISSN 1478-6737
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Abstract
This paper charts an attempt to fuse two arguably incompatible formulations of social research; one rooted in a commitment to democratic, participatory practice and the other rooted in a psychosocial epistemological frame. After setting out the broad precepts of the two methodological approaches, the paper explores some theoretical and practical tensions that surfaced during a doctoral criminological study examining the desistance promoting potential of relationships between male youth workers and young men involved in violence. I show how the professional context in which the study was conducted (youth work) afforded the opportunity to work with participants whilst also retaining a psychosocial epistemological and analytic frame. The paper concludes that whilst the two approaches are likely to remain ‘uneasy bed-fellows’, more researchers in the youth work field might consider adopting a psychosocial standpoint as a means of keeping in sight both the psychic and social forces imbricated in young people’s lives and within their relationships with youth professionals.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Journal of Psychosocial Studies. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, Harris, P. (2019) ‘Uneasy bedfellows? Fusing participatory and psychosocial principles in research with youth workers and young people’ Journal of Psychosocial Studies, 12 (3), pp.245-257 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/204378919X15674407381128 |
| Divisions: | Faculty of of Arts, Society and Professional Studies > Department of Social Science and Business |
| Depositing User: | Ms Hazel Barham |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Dec 2019 15:33 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2020 05:10 |
| URI: | https://newman.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17273 |
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