Innovating Interdisciplinary Methodology

Shame and Medicine’s interdisciplinary and integrative approach will move beyond disciplinary boundaries, pioneer novel methodologies. The research will proceed through three main disciplinary frames, (1) philosophy, (2) cultural studies and (3) empirical sociology. These disciplinary frames will collaborate 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 submit CIRs, we analysed them, and then interview them on it

Memo-ing

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