Research methods

This section invites panels, papers, and roundtable submissions on a wide range of topics related to the use of research methods, approaches, designs, and techniques in all subfields of gender, politics, and intersectionality. It offers a forum for discussing a variety of methodological issues, including (but not limited to): research design, data collection, data analysis, concept development, research strategies, case selection, and ethical, practical and epistemological issues. We welcome submissions on the entire spectrum of qualitative, quantitative, and multi/mixed research methods and designs. This includes papers dealing with more ‘conventional’ methodologies (including survey research, statistical analysis, interviews, text analysis, discursive approaches, policy analysis…), as well as new and innovative conceptual and methodological approaches to gender and politics research (e.g. the use of ethnographic methods, visual methodologies and ‘images as data’, historical and archival research, experimental research, social media analysis, machine learning/AI, …). We are particularly interested in papers dealing with the question how research methods, approaches and techniques can be harnessed to study gender, intersectionality and politics phenomena in ways that promote our understanding of gender equality in society, politics, and democracy. While any paper that fits the description above qualifies, we want to give special consideration to papers dealing with: - New and innovative methodologies for studying intersectionality in quantitative, qualitative and mixed method research, as well as critical, black feminist, intersectional and decolonizing methodologies - Approaches to measuring gender (identity) in a non-binary way, and the application of non-binary continuous measures of gender - Methods that help deal with the abundance of data generated by social media, big data, and reflections on how to apply feminist research principles to big data analysis - Discussions and reflections on methods and approaches involving citizen and/or elite stakeholders, e.g. participatory action research, co-creation and citizen science - Papers dealing with research ethics, and which reflect on ethical principles of doing ‘good’ research, as well as improving ways for collecting, recording, analyzing, reporting, storing and disseminating data - Different approaches to training, teaching, and learning research methods in gender, intersectionality, and politics, and sharing of best practices - Negotiating power and positionality in the research process, in political settings (institutional and civil society), and in research practices We invite proposals from scholars working at all career stages and at all stages in research projects in gender, intersectionality and politics broadly defined.