Discursive strategies that individualize: CVs and appraisal interviews

Discursive formations and Shifting Strategies in E-Health programmes

Research has shown that large IT programmes in e-government and e-health are challenging not only in terms of project failures and in terms of high costs, but also that the public and sectorial discourses greatly influences the trajectories and outcomes of mega-programmes. However, few IS studies have investigated this phenomenon in much depth, and the aim of this contribution is to shed more l...

Qualitative telephone interviews: Strategies for success

Getting reticent young male participants to talk: using artefact-mediated interviews to promote discursive interaction

During a pilot study that used interviews to collect data from young male apprentices about construction site safety, we were confronted with limited verbal responses. This paper is about how we explored this research problem of ameliorating unresponsive interview interactions. The paper reviews the options that previous researchers have trialled and developed, and specifically focuses on artef...

The confessing academic and living the present otherwise: Appraisal interviews and logbooks in academia

In this paper, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, I argue that academics are enmeshed in power relations in which confession operates, both on and through academics. Drawing on Foucault’s genealogy of confession, I illustrate how academics are not only invited to reflect on performance, faults, temptations and desires in their work and private life, but as teachers they mobilise the same k...

Creating online discursive spaces that legitimate alternative ways of knowing

Although educators have long recognised prior learning and life experience in their pedagogical strategies epistemological or cultural difference has not generally been legitimated. Knowledge originating from within non-western cultural groups, whether indigenous or migratory has not been valued. Such hegemony has created negative consequences for members of minority groups and has led to the e...