Studying Gender and Sexualities with Qualitative Methods

Qualitative Methods for Studying Distributed Software Development: Issues and Challenges

I was introduced to qualitative methods during the beginning stages of my doctoral studies via a formal course on qualitative research methods as well as an extensive reading list covering various qualitative techniques and interpretive perspectives. Subsequently, I have applied the knowledge and insights by incorporating qualitative methods in my research endeavors. Specifically, I have engage...

African same-sex sexualities and gender-diversity: an introduction.

Disabling sexualities: Exploring the impact of the intersection of HIV, disability and gender on the sexualities of women in Zambia

BACKGROUND Women with a disability are often characterised as a homogenous social group consigned to a cultural stereotype with assumptions of dependence, asexuality and gender neutrality. Furthermore, there is a void of research about the experience of people with disabilities following diagnosis with HIV. Little is known about how HIV diagnosis intersects with disability and gender and how it...

Globalisation and Transnational Sexualities

The literature in the field of critical sexuality studies published between the years 2000 and 2006 reveals an increasing preoccupation with the theme of globalisation. Although major topics of interest vary according to the authors in question and their disciplinary backgrounds, definitions of contemporary globalisation invariably refer to the rapidly increasing movement of people (through mig...

Studying insight problem solving with neuroscientific methods.

Insights are sporadic, unpredictable, short-lived moments of exceptional thinking where unwarranted assumptions need to be discarded before solutions to problems can be obtained. Insight requires a restructuring of the problem situation that is relatively rare and hard to elicit in the laboratory. One way of dealing with this problem is to catalyze such restructuring processes using solution hi...