For quite a long time, APH researchers Mirjam Stuij (PhD candidate at Amsterdam UMC), Maaike Muntinga (senior researcher at Amsterdam UMC), Minne Bakker (lecturer at Amsterdam UMC), Elena Bendien (senior researcher at Amsterdam UMC) and Petra Verdonk (associate professor at Amsterdam UMC) have been seeking for ways and methods to study diversity in health and healthcare. This last year and a half we have been developing a tool, together with a team of senior researchers, to help researchers in analyzing their interview data from a diversity perspective. This tool kan aid researchers to explore the theme of inequality in their research data.
This Dutch-language guide offers practical principles and starting points to perform a secondary, intersectional analysis of qualitative data about a health or health care topic. It provides some theoretical background, but is mostly aimed at applying intersectionality theory to qualitative research practice through the use of examples and literature references. The reader will find that the guide focuses on interview transcripts, but the information presented could be used for a range of different qualitative designs and data projects, e.g. focus group transcripts, observation reports and field notes, photography and film, audio, and art.
This guide is not finished and we do not intent to have developed a neatly packaged technique – to the contrary. We see this effort as a first step in the further development of intersectionality as a useful theoretical and methodological concept, and believe that to perform an intersectional analysis is to advance it. We hope our fellow APH researchers will find it useful.