Taking the Debate on Reflexivity Further

Much has been written on the presence of researcher subjectivity in qualitative research and the concept of reflexivity, and efforts to account for researcher influence abound. A vast proportion of this literature examines interviewer effects and is confined to the relationship between researcher and respondent in the interview interaction. The present paper extends this focus. It contributes insights from a collaborative team project by presenting a case study of a biographical‐narrative interview in an organisational setting. The psychodynamically informed panel analysis considered dynamics not only in the interview, but also in the research team and the organisation. This proved valuable in making explicit latent ways in which the interviewer, subject to such wider dynamics, shaped the interview accordingly. The paper shows that awareness of the nature of researcher influence can lead to important insights about the phenomenon studied. Keywords: biographical‐narrative interviewpsychodynamicqualitative researchresearcher influencereflexivityteam approach Notes Lynn Froggett (Reader in Psychosocial Welfare, University of Central Lancashire); Prue Chamberlayne (Visiting Senior Research Fellow, The Open University); Tom Wengraf (Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of East London). German for a story of a person's education, development and maturing. In order to provide a concise overview of the interview, the original text is condensed into individual, descriptive segments. A new segment starts when one of the following occurs in the original text: speaker change; topic change; textsort change (change in the way a topic is being treated by the speaker) (also see Wengraf, 2001 Wengraf T 2001 Qualitative Research Interviewing: Biographic Narrative and Semi‐structured Method London Sage [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]).