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The tip of the iceberg: working on the Victoria Climbié Data Corpus Project

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Yvette Taylor

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Abstract

In this article I provide an overview of the methodological approaches of the Victoria Climbié Data Corpus Project, which aims to provide researchers, educators and policy makers with an invaluable source of data, based upon the coding of witness statements given to the Victoria Climbié Inquiry. I assess my own research role within this, making a case for the need to incorporate more grounded theory techniques, research reflexivity and subjective interpretation, alongside the 'objective' coding frame being used, derived from a Delphi exercise. I include witness testimonies to highlight the kind of issues that lay beyond the codes and which cannot be effectively grasped by them. In using the specific example of the Climbié case, I argue that research surrounding emotive issues must be qualitatively sensitive to the social and discursive nuances present in the data, as opposed to solely relying upon objective a priori codes. © 2008 Sage Publications.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Taylor Y

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Qualitative Research

Year: 2008

Volume: 8

Issue: 1

Pages: 115-135

Print publication date: 01/02/2008

ISSN (print): 1468-7941

ISSN (electronic): 1741-3109

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794107085299

DOI: 10.1177/1468794107085299


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