Call for Papers – Power and Vulnerability in the In-Depth Interview: Exploring a New ‘Ethic of Care’

Our colleagues at the Recovery Histories project and Caring Communities are opening a call for papers, with the topic of “Power and vulnerability in the in-depth interview: exploring a new ‘ethic of care’”.

Deadline for the abstract: 14 December 2026

Potential topics include but are not limited to: 

– Feminist ethics of care 

– Gatekeeping – who gets to adjudicate what and who is researchable, sayable, and ethical 

– Critical reflections of ‘trauma-informed’ interviewing practices 

– Care within research practices – theoretical considerations 

– Care and ‘vulnerability’ – what are the boundaries of scholarly responsibilities 

– Intersectionality and positionality in relation to care practices in interviewing 

– Care – making our methodologies visible 

– Positionality and working across difference including class, race, age, Global North/South, disability, neurodiversity 

– Gender stereotypes and care labour 

– Incorporating lived experience expertise in approaches 

– Institutions

– ‘lived experience’

– Power, collaboration, equity 

– The interviewer as an ally in the fight for social justice 

For more information, check out this link – or email r.beecher@bbk.ac.uk , cc claudia.soares@newcastle.ac.uk