An interdependent qualitative research paradigm embraces the idea of interdependence by foregrounding the fact that researchers need participants' involvement and care in creating a research methodology as much as participants need a researcher to take care when developing a research methodology.

Interdependence in an Interdependent Qualitative Research Paradigm

In an interdependent qualitative research paradigm, the progress of the research relies on the participants and researchers to continually seek the feedback of the participants on the research.

Price notes that to achieve the values of accessibility and interdependence, Price and the research team drew on a research method Price conceived during her work on the book Mad at School which she called an interdependent qualitative research paradigm and the team drew on principles that Price outlined in her article "Disability Studies Methodology."

Foundations of Research Methods

Price, Margaret. 2011b. Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life.

Interdependent Qualitative Research Paradigm

To code interviews for the Disabled Academics Study (DAS), the research team used grounded theory, discourse analysis, and category construction.

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