Researchers at Risk

Deborah L. Mulligan researches in the field of gerontology, specifically with older men and suicide ideation. She is interested in community capacity building through examining the sustainability of particular men’s groups with male-only membership, and also in ethics and reciprocity when conducting research with marginalised groups. Patrick Alan Danaher is Professor of Educational Research and Acting Deputy Head of the School of Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He is also currently an Adjunct Professor in the School of Education and the Arts at Central Queensland University, Australia. He is also currently an Adjunct Professor at Central Queensland University and James Cook University, both in Australia, and Docent at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

“The volume provides researchers with a wealth of insights into the challenges and risks they may face and offers strategies to manage or mitigate them. ... this will spark further discussion on the challenges researchers confront, prompting broader debate in academic institutions about addressing these risks’ root causes rather than merely managing them individually.” (Aysuda Kölemen, IQAS, International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Vol. 54 (4), 2023)

• Chapter 1. Conceptualising Researchers’ Risks and Synthesising Strategies for Engaging with those Risks: Articulating an Agenda for Apprehending Scholars’ Precarious Positions; Deborah L. Mulligan and Patrick Alan Danaher.- SECTION I. Risks Related to the Internal Dimensions of Researchers (Researchers’ Identities).- Chapter 2. Still Anonymous: Stigma, Silencing and Sex Work in Australia; Dr Anonymous.- Chapter 3. “Punctuation, Pause, Next Slide, Please”: The Risks of Research and Self-Disclosure in Australia and the United States; Dawne Fahey and Deborah Cunningham Breede.- Chapter 4. Reconstructing Academic Identities at Risk: Conceptualising Wellbeing and Re-imaging Identities on Cyprus and in Australia; Irina Lokhtina and Mark A. Tyler.- Chapter 5. When Faith is on the Line: Exploring the Personal Risks and Rewards of Transformative Learning; Rian Roux.- Chapter 6. The Risky Responsibility of Doctoral Writing as Grief Work: Lessons Learnt whilst Journeying with Trauma in Australia; Deborah L. Mulligan.- SECTION II. Risks Related to the External Dimensions of Researchers (Researchers’ Professions).- Chapter 7. “No Future for You”: Economic and Mental Health Risks in Young Spanish Researchers; Israel Martínez-Nicolás and Jorge García-Girón.- Chapter 8. The Risks of Precarity: How Employment Insecurity Impacts on Early Career Researchers in Australia; Lara McKenzie.- Chapter 9. How to Make the Cut in Academia: Managing the Uncertainty of Time as a Necessity to Having a Research Career in Germany; Jochem Kotthaus, Karsten Krampe, Andrea Piontek and Gerrit Weitzel.- Chapter 10. The Need to be a Leader of Research in the United States: Take the Risk and Move Beyond Your Opponents; David B. Ross, Gina L. Peyton, Vanaja Nethi and Melissa T. Sasso.- SECTION III. Risks Related to the Research Topic (Subject Matter).- Chapter 11. “God in the First Place – My First Talk and Dinner with a Salafi Group in Germany: What They Talked about’ and How I Dealt with the Risk”; Gerrit Weitzel.- Chapter 12. Doing Feminist, Multispecies Research about Love and Abuse within the Neoliberalised Academy in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia; Nik Taylor and Heather Fraser.- Chapter 13. Irony Sandwich: Reflections on Research Silencing from an Australian Silenced Researcher; Jacqui Hoepner.- Chapter 14. Embracing the Knot: The Importance of Personal Risk-Taking within Intercultural Research in Aboriginal Australia; Susan Janelle Moore.- SECTION IV. Risks Related to the Research Setting (Conflict-Laden Locations.- Chapter 15. “Horrified by the Experience”? Reflections on a Pakistani Organisation’s Feedback about Doctoral Research Findings; Syed Owais.- Chapter 6. Where the Map Turns Red: The Multiple Expressions of Risk in Ethnographic Research in Balūchistān; Paola Colonello.- Chapter 17. The Ethics of Ethics: A Help or Hindrance When Conducting Sensitive Research with Australian Veterans?; Nikki Jamieson.- Chapter 18. Friend or Foe: The Perils of Conducting Research on Moral Injury in an Australian Veteran Population; Anne L. Macdonald.- Chapter 19. Activist or Advocate? Redefining Scholarly Risk in a West African Research Context; Zibah Nwako.- Chapter 20. Dangerous Decisions: The Precarity of Real-World Research – A Provocation; Deborah L. Mulligan.- Chapter 21. Reconstructing Researchers at Risk and Risky Research: Some Answers to the Organising Questions; Deborah L. Mulligan and Patrick Alan Danaher.