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Fowler, Nadine, Mitchell-Smith, Zinnia, Rennolds, Natasha 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8169-534X and Thomas, Claire
(2025)
Hopeful Futures - Purposeful reimagining in care-experienced research.
In: European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2025, 2025-01-08 - 2025-01-10, University of Edinburgh.
Abstract
Too often, research with care-experienced children and adults is framed around negatives – poor outcomes and the language of despair which can fuel a culture in research and practice of helplessness and hopelessness. We believe that this belies the strengths, the aspirations and positive outcomes felt by people who have been cared for by the state. In an attempt to challenge these negative narratives, efforts have been made to consciously change the language that we use when we speak about care-experienced children and adults (see for example the Each and Every Child initiative, in collaboration with FrameWorks UK). Reframing care experience involves building the public understanding of care experience, and shifting attitudes towards care experience and the care system. As a team of researchers bringing in different perspectives including lived-experience of the care system, we wonder how we can position this research differently, reframing to a more hopeful approach. Having met at Helsinki, ECQI 2024, we formed a collective where we have explored our shared research hopes whilst acknowledging the practicalities of doing research. We look to a more positive reframing of the research process, where we move from a focus on ethical challenges to genuine ethical practice; a move from fear in our methods such as the recruitment of ‘participants’ to being driven by genuine ethical participatory approaches; and a positive reframing in the dissemination of findings around the nuances of care experience. This paper will draw upon our varied research, lived experience and perspectives to reimagine a more hopeful future for care-experienced research.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 10 - reduced inequalities ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/reduced_inequalities |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Social Work |
| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2025 00:33 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2025 00:33 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98244 |
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