2025/04/01 by Sarah Wayland, Annmaree Watharow · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Disability Rights and Representation #Participatory Visual Research Methods #Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
paper · doi:10.1177/16094069251332419
openalex publication_date 2025/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/18
When we do not include, or account for difference, in qualitative research studies, outcomes create insufficient data that limits innovations in practice, policy or legislation development. Accessibility and inclusion in qualitative research should accommodate all narratives, thus challenging the creation of epistemic and social injustice. The goal of this special issue came about in response to Watharow and Wayland’s paper on inclusion of d/Deafblind participants in research (2022) generating conversations on intersectionality and representation of all people in qualitative research. The special issue is framed through Fricker’s, 2007 Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing. Acknowledging that true knowledge building can only occur if research is designed in socially just ways. Knowledge building must seek the standpoints and testimonies of the people and communities the knowledge seeks to serve.