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Women Researching in Africa: The Impact of Gender

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This chapter introduces a collection of stories exploring the lives, consequences and motivations of female researchers in Africa. Each subsequent chapter gives unprecedented insights into how the author’s gender—and sometimes their ethnicity and age—impacted on their research experiences, and how doing research in Africa affected them as women. Gender may not have been an underlying theme during the research period, but by being reflexive, the authors re-explore research experiences and re-examine things that may have been overlooked at the time of the research. Three broad themes are discussed: (1) gender and identity as a female researcher in Africa; (2) relationships with ‘others’; and (3) methodological challenges for female researchers in Africa.

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Jackson, R., Kelly, M. (2019). Women Researching in Africa: The Impact of Gender. In: Jackson, R., Kelly, M. (eds) Women Researching in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94502-6_1

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