Publications

Study Type:
Qualitative Study

Sample Size:
20

The Research party:
1. University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain 2. University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Main Idea or Research Questions:
Through a reflexive analysis of a research study on the lives of visually impaired young people and adults in Bahrain, this article discusses how gender, religion and culture need to be taken account of. It also discusses how the research process needed to take account of the participants’ disabilities. It examines the issues of research access, informed consent, researcher’s dress, confidentiality, research location, and time. It highlights how the gender of the researcher was constraining in some gender segregated educational settings in a Muslim society. The article engages with the researcher’s positionality through reflexive discussion.