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- Title
Obtaining Large-Scale Funding for Empowerment-Oriented Qualitative Research: A Report From Personal Experience.
- Authors
Padgett, Deborah K.; Henwood, Benjamin F.
- Abstract
Obtaining funding for qualitative research remains a challenge despite greater openness to methodological pluralism. Such hurdles are presumably compounded when the proposed study employs empowerment theory, rendering it susceptible to charges of elevating ideology over rigor. This article draws on the authors' experience in securing largescale funding for an empowerment-oriented qualitative study of homeless mentally ill adults. Lessons learned include the importance of weaving empowerment theory into the proposals "argument," and infusing empowerment values into study protocols while simultaneously paying close attention to rigorous and transparent methods. Additional benefits accrue from having prior relationships with study sites and being willing to revise and resubmit proposals whenever possible. Though representing a fraction of all externally funded projects in the United States, qualitative research has tremendous untapped potential for success in this competitive arena-success that need not entail surrendering a commitment to empowerment values.
- Subjects
HOMELESS persons; PEOPLE with mental illness; QUALITATIVE research; SELF-efficacy; EXPERIMENTAL design
- Publication
Qualitative Health Research, 2009, Vol 19, Issue 6, p868
- ISSN
1049-7323
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1049732308327815