Working groups considering fundamental questions concerning the pursuit of transparency in qualitative empirical research, which cut across the particular forms of research in which qualitative scholars engage
Costs, benefits, and practicalities of different ways of institutionalizing the promotion of research transparency – and their interaction with power and resource differentials in the profession
Working groups considering what it means to be transparent when working with two kinds of empirical sources commonly considered by qualitative researchers.
As someone else who uses archival and textual sources, I really like these questions/suggestions. I think (2) increasing transparency through means like online indices, etc. and (3) better footnoting, would address the transparency problems better than active citation. Except in cases where entire c...