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Campbell S, Clark A, Keady J, Kullberg A, Manji K, Rummery K & Ward R (2019) Participatory social network map making with family carers of people living with dementia. Methodological Innovations, 12 (1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799119844445
Abstract
This article focuses on the use of a participatory social network mapping method with family carers. This is one of a suite
of methods developed in a 5-year qualitative multi-centre project exploring how neighbourhoods support, enable or disable
people with dementia and their families to live well in their communities. The article considers how mapping provides insights
into family support networks, revealing the fluidity of support and care within relationships as well as providing opportunity
for individuals to represent the complexities of their relationships with more and less significant others. However, the
potential offered by the approach goes beyond those of visual representations of networks and contacts. Paying attention to
the co-production process, as well as the reflexive dialogue that emerges in the exchange between researcher, participants,
and the maps themselves, we consider how the maps emerge as affective artifacts, weighted with emotion.
Keywords
Participatory social network mapping; neighbourhood; dementia; care; social relationships; emotion; reflexivity
Journal
Methodological Innovations: Volume 12, Issue 1
Status | Published |
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Funders | National Institute for Health Research and ESRC Economic and Social Research Council |
Publication date | 31/12/2019 |
Publication date online | 22/04/2019 |
Date accepted by journal | 22/04/2019 |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/29422 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
eISSN | 2059-7991 |
People (2)
Professor, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Professor of Dementia, Ageing, Community, Dementia and Ageing