Innovating Interdisciplinary Methodology

Shame and Medicine’s interdisciplinary and integrative approach moved beyond disciplinary boundaries, and pioneered novel methodologies. The research proceeded through three main disciplinary frames, (1) philosophy, (2) cultural studies and (3) empirical sociology. These disciplinary frames collaborated to synthesise the emerging findings in an on-going iterative process of learning and reflecting on the data, creating an integrated interdisciplinary and holistic analysis.

Empirical data collection

• Critical Incident Reports + Interviews
• CIR is a development of the diary and Critical Incident Technique
• The CIR + Interview method is a development of the diary-diary interview method
• Participants submitted CIRs, we analysed them, and then interviewed them on it

Memo-ing

• A critical component of CGT
• We developed this method for interdisciplinary collaboration and analysis integration