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Proximity and positionality: Situating knowledge through the experiences of quantitative air quality data collectors working in participants' homes.
| Τίτλος: | Proximity and positionality: Situating knowledge through the experiences of quantitative air quality data collectors working in participants' homes. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Shurety E; Department of Geography, King's College London, Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG, UK. Electronic address: elara.shurety@kcl.ac.uk., Kelly FJ; Environmental Research Group, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W12 0BZ, UK; MRC Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, W12 0BZ, UK. Electronic address: frank.kelly@imperial.ac.uk., Varaden D; Environmental Research Group, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W12 0BZ, UK; MRC Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, W12 0BZ, UK. Electronic address: diana.varaden@imperial.ac.uk. |
| Πηγή: | Social science & medicine (1982) [Soc Sci Med] 2026 Aug; Vol. 402, pp. 119342. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Apr 29. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Pergamon Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8303205 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1873-5347 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 02779536 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Soc Sci Med Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Original Publication: Oxford ; New York : Pergamon, c1982- |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Air Pollution, Indoor*/analysis , Air Pollution, Indoor*/adverse effects , Data Collection*/methods , Housing*, Asthma/epidemiology ; Asthma/etiology ; Humans ; London ; Qualitative Research ; Child |
| Περίληψη: | Data collection is a vital part of the research process, and those who conduct this work play a foundational role in shaping research. Despite this, the experiences and perspectives of frontline data collectors are often left underexamined by research teams and in wider literature. This paper presents the findings of a reflexive, qualitative study of 10 fieldworkers from a research project examining indoor air quality and childhood asthma in London, where multi-method quantitative data collection was undertaken in the homes of 110 participating households. Throughout, this paper underscores how fieldworkers' positionalities influence both the emotional intensities of data collections and the production of knowledge. It examines the epistemic opportunities for research teams that can be gained from attuning to fieldworkers' insights. Through attuning to place, this paper underscores the significance of the research setting, focusing here on the home-based data collection. This is considered with reference to the fields of environmental health, exposure science, and public health, where the growing interest in indoor ecologies and the intersection of housing and health necessitates an appraisal of home-based quantitative data collection. (Copyright © 2026 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.) |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: Data collectors; Fieldwork; Homes; Methodologies; Positionality; Quantitative |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20260509 Date Completed: 20260716 Latest Revision: 20260716 |
| Update Code: | 20260716 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119342 |
| PMID: | 42105402 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1873-5347 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119342 |