Renegotiating Member Checks: Reflections and Insights From a Participant-Researcher Collaboration

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 79
  In Roundtable Session: Triangulation and Member Checking

Abstract

This paper shares the process of co-creating a participant narrative as an alternative to traditional methods of member checking and data analysis. In the collaborative process presented in this submission, the researcher and participant worked together to develop interpretations of interview data and to collaborate on a final narrative. The author developed a member checking process that included iterative rounds of collaboration in the liminal space between raw data and final narrative. This process offers possibilities for alternative member checks that interrupt the traditional power dynamics in participant-researcher relationships. This paper ends with an exploration of issues of power and an examination of how alternative forms of member checks can provide room for new understandings of participant experiences.

Author

• Liz Chase, St. John's University