Training and working with a guide dog both take place largely on the move, in public spaces, on the way to the next destination. Trainers, puppy raisers, and visually impaired handlers travel many miles with the dog, ...

Horizontal gender segregation divides the labor market into ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’ occupations. However, some individuals choose occupational paths which are not consistent with the expectations for their gender, thereby ...

Already in the early 1990s, one could encounter the opinion that the state in which the field of qualitative research finds itself bears the hallmarks of the ‘curse of abundance’. Since then, the phenomenon of proliferation ...

This article discusses first-person approaches in social research. It describes autoethnographic, phenomenological, and contemplative approaches. These three approaches have in common reflexivity, a focus on experiences, ...

The text presented serves as an introduction to the themed issue “Qualitative Research – Methods, Participants, Process of Implementation”. The first section of the text outlines the backdrop for the development of the ...

Poetry in qualitative research is not yet widely recognized as a scientifically legitimate method for collecting and representing data in empirical studies. However, the assumption of a contradiction between scientific ...

The article presents the results of the author’s research concerning the place and characteristics of structural conflict in the functioning of the Polish migrant community in the UK. The backdrop for the analyzed phenomenon ...

In the paper, I undertake the problem of conducting research of the borderland of former Galicia and the Kingdom of Poland on the example of the project I carried out at the turn of 2021 and 2022. Because of the complexity ...

The aim of this article is to present the organisation and working conditions in ‘small food business’, focusing on the precarization of work and its bodily experience by workers. The article is based on a case study of ...