Focusing on the intersection of informal caregiving and formal care settings, this book explores the geographical dimensions of care and caregiving. It delves into how these interactions shape complex landscapes and organizational structures within domestic and residential care environments, providing a nuanced understanding of the spatialities involved in caregiving practices.
"First published as What is Diary Method?, this title is now available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. "Diary Method gives an excellent overview of how solicited diaries can offer researchers new insights into people's experiences." Jenny Hislop, Senior Researcher, University of Oxford, UK The book opens with an overview of the development of diary techniques, a discussion of the value of the method, and provides an outline of the different ways of collecting and using diary data and techniques for analysing it. The book engages with new and novel developments in solicited diary method including discussion of how technology and social media has the potential to change the meaning and nature of diary-keeping"-- Provided by publisher
An up-to-date, concise and engaging guide to the use of diaries as a methodological technique, drawing on the authors' experience of using this technique and on a range of published research that employs it.