The Guide to LGBTQ+ Research

Adam Brett is a researcher and lecturer in education at the University of Derby. With 15 years of experience as a secondary teacher and leader, Adam now works in the field of teacher education, and has research interests including LGBTQ+, diversity and inclusion, and professional identity. Adam is the founder of the LGBTQ+ Research Network and the co-founder of Pride & Progress, an initiative that supports LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools and universities. For more information, visit www.prideprogress.co.uk. Catherine Lee is Professor of Inclusive Education and Leadership and Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. Catherine was awarded an MBE in 2023 for Services to Equality in Education and she has written extensively on LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools and universities. Catherines autoethnographic research on her experiences as a lesbian teacher under the homophobic Section 28 legislation was the subject of a BAFTA nominated feature film in 2022, entitled, Blue Jean.

Introduction Part 1: Getting Started Chapter 1. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome; Adam Brett Chapter 2. Prospecting for gold: Finding your guide; Lyndsay Muir Chapter 3. Writing That LGBTQ+ Research Proposal; Kate Russell and Daniel Rogerson Chapter 4. The importance of language; Rebecca House Chapter 5. Writing about your own LGBTQ+ identity; Catherine Lee Chapter 6. Social Media and Networks of Support: Unlocking the Ivory Tower and Navigating its Halls; Charlotte Feather Part 2: Reviewing the Literature Chapter 7. The Purpose of a Literature Review; Alex Baird Chapter 8. Citing them Write: Crafting Inclusive Literature Reviews in LGBTQIA+ Research; Kayden Schumacher Chapter 9. Getting to grips with the main queer theorists; Liam Cini ODwyer Chapter 10. The Joy of Foucault: How his theoretical concepts can awaken the researcher-activist within; Ben Johnson Chapter 11. Getting to grips with Judith Butler: Exploring Gender Performativity; Catherine Lee Part 3: Positionality: Navigating subjective identities and perspectives Chapter 12. When research becomes personal: Infusing intersectional identities into your research; Bharat Bharat Chapter 13. Insider, Outsider: Participating Observer on a LGBTQ+ Leadership Development Programme; Alex Baird Chapter 14. Am I an Activist?; Frankie Frangeskou Chapter 15. Outsider positionality: Blurring the boundaries; Julie Wharton and Rhiannon Love Chapter 16. Navigating Insider/Outsider Dynamics: Reflections from Online Fieldwork with Chinese Queer Young Adults and Their Parents; Fengqiang Wang Part 4: Ethical Research with the LGBTQ+ Community Chapter 17. Rethinking and Reconceptualising Ethics in LGBT+ Research; Charlotte Feather Chapter 18. Navigating the Ethics Application Process; Helen Bushell-Thornalley Chapter 19. The ethical challenges of compulsory guardian consent for research with LGBTQ+ youth; Lois Ferguson and Kate Russell Chapter 20. Ethical considerations when working with LGBTQ+ children and young people; Lucy Jones Part 5: Methodology: Planning and collecting your research Chapter 21. Navigating participant recruitment when working with, for and as part of the LGBTQ+ community; Grace Cappy and Alex Powell Chapter 22. Getting your foot in the door when it seems to be closed: gaining access to participants in secondary schools; Mark Williams Chapter 23. Valuing quality over quantity: Recruiting participants within research of a sensitive nature; Beth Burgess Chapter 24. Conducting Focus Groups with LGBT+ Participants; David Murphy Chapter 25. Participatory Action Research with LGBT+ Co-researchers; Cait Jobson Chapter 26. The Power of Discussion: interviewing more than once; EJ-Francis Caris-Hamer Chapter 27. Que(e)rying traditional approaches: Using creative methods in LGBT+ research; Lis Bundock Part 6: Data, analysis, and discussion Chapter 28. LGBTQ+ Participant Representation: Getting it right; Katie Reynolds Chapter 29. Honouring your participants as people: representing the richness of neurodivergent and LGBT+ intersectional identities in data analysis; Helen Dring-Turner Chapter 30. Conducting thematic analysis with LGBTQ+ data; Jennifer Zwarthoed Chapter 31. Analysing narrative and discourse data; Stephen DiDomenico Chapter 32. Quantitative queer data and statistical assumptions; Daniel Rogerson Part 7: Conclusion: Making claims to knowledge and preparing for the viva Chapter 33. Fun with Failure: when your research does not go to plan; Pippa Sterk Chapter 34. Have I found ANYTHING? Making claims to knowledge and originality; R Harris Chapter 35. Preparing for the viva; Kate Russell and Liz Wands-Murray Part 8: Life after the doctorate: Getting your academic career started Chapter 36. Publishing from your research; Adam Brett Chapter 37. Sharing Queer knowledge in a heteronormative world: Navigating peer review in the publication process; Jessica Gagnon and Marco Reggiani Chapt