Michael D. Giardina’s research while affiliated with Florida State University and other places

... We will triangulate the quantitative survey findings, qualitative interview findings, and document analysis to provide a comprehensive understanding of the child welfare data case recording practices. By comparing and contrasting findings from these three data sources, we can identify consistencies and discrepancies, strengthening the validity and credibility of the results [63]. This process will involve synthesizing quantitative results to reveal patterns, interpreting qualitative data to explore underlying reasons and meanings, and analyzing documents to contextualize and corroborate findings within established practices or policies [64]. ...

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Child welfare worker perspectives on documentation and case recording practices in Canada: A mixed-methods study protocol

... By applying posthumanist frameworks to the analysis of Chinese hybrid ballet, the research contributes to broader discussions on how art forms respond to shifting cultural, technological, and environmental conditions. Chinese ballet becomes more than a stylized performance; it emerges as a cultural artifact through which new understandings of embodiment, agency, and identity are negotiated (Dai et al., 2024;Purdea, 2023). The blending of Peking Opera aesthetics with Western ballet structures, or the use of multimedia effects to enhance symbolic narratives, reflects a wider reimagining of what performance can achieve in a posthuman age. ...

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Posthuman Aesthetics and Cultural Hybridity in Chinese Ballet Development

... Qualitative research methods aim to interpret and explore social phenomena by examining participants' perception, experiences, and the meaning they assign to various aspects of their lives. These techniques prioritize context and rely on descriptive data, patterns, and themes identified by the researcher (Creswell, 2009;Patricia, 2014). Focus group discussions (FGD), a key qualitative method, facilitate group conversations on specific topics and foster interactions among participants, enabling the exploration of diverse thoughts and viewpoints. ...

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OPEN ACCESS EDITED BY Balancing conservation and community needs: challenges, threats, and socioeconomic disparities in Kakamega Forest, Kenya

... Second, the participants shared their stories at our monthly workshops, and we all challenged the narrators' frames of reference, which led to new understandings (Adams et al., 2014;Anderson & McLachlan, 2016;Blalock & Akehi, 2018;Denzin & Giardina, 2022). Generally, we viewed dialectic questioning of each other's reality as a means of widening the horizon of possibilities and gaining new insights for everyone involved in the research circle. ...

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The transformative power of practitioner inquiry: collaborative autoethnography, norm critique and research circles in Swedish education

... An illustration involves chemical engineers working together to produce nanoparticles of titanium dioxide and zinc oxide to produce high-quality natural sunscreen. For this type of research to succeed, stakeholders must be able to work harmoniously as a team (Denzin & Giardina, 2021). ...

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A Typology of Action Research for Scholar-Practitioners

... Our sports geography work, and the distinct need we feel for encouraging deeper spatial awareness in Sports Management, is theoretically informed by spatial scholars and critical pedagogues. Specifically, we take encouragement from seminal scholars such as Henri Lefebvre (1991;Lefebvre & Réguiler, [1986] 2004Lefebvre, 1996), Yi-Fu Tuan (1977), Edward Soja (1989) and David Harvey (1990), as well as from sports geographers John Bale (1996), Chris Gaffney (2014), van Ingen (2003, 2018, Gavin Andrews (2016), and from educational/pedagogical critics Henry Giroux (2011) and Sheridan Brown (2017). Such scholars have argued, variously, for critical conceptualisations and interrogations of space, and for educational shifts that lead not only to understandings of space, but to transformative actions that reconfigure space and constituents lives and interactions therein. ...

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Spatialising Sport Management

... Denzin & Lincoln, 2005). However, these views are no less subjective than those attempting to conduct 'gold standard' scientific research projects whereby the researcher chooses the questions, focus and hypothesis of a particular setting in an effort to find answers to questions that they would like answered*then falsely claim that it is 'sound science' (Lincoln, 2005; Denzin & Giardina, 2007; King-White, forthcoming). Employing the aforementioned to defend our decision to use autobiography as a form of inquiry, we feel that the qualitative, more conversant, and openly subjective recollections that Amber has in regard to her experiences as an intern/employee are more instructive, informative and enlightening in revealing her transition from a student in sport management to regarding the field as one that forces individuals to compromise their morality. ...

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Selling out (in) sport management: Practically evaluating the state of the American (Sporting) Union

... As a non-foundationalist, I've written autoethnography (Bunds, 2014a), utilized multi-sited ethnographic methods 669523C SCXXX10.1177/1532708616669523Cultural Studies <span class="symbol" cstyle="symbol">↔</span> Critical MethodologiesBunds and Giardina (Bunds, 2014b), and conducted cultural studies-informed media analyses of homelessness, citizenship, and national identity (see Bunds, Newman, & Giardina, 2015;Giardina, King-White, & Bunds, 2015;Giardina, Metz, & Bunds, 2012)-yet here I am, partnering with colleagues to do "mixed-methods" research that I know is laden with "ontological confusion" (St. Pierre, 2015). ...

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Navigating the Corporate University: Reflections on the Politics of Research in Neoliberal Times

... Related to these processes, one might anticipate that self-identified conservatives are more drawn to sport and its promised benefits, compared to liberals, because of their greater tendency to view both sport and society as meritocratic. That is, conservatives tend to view sport as a level playing field that allows anyone to succeed and instills key values and benefits to those who are involved with it (Hawzen & Newman, 2017;Newman & Giardina, 2011;Warner & Knoester, 2022). That said, sport has historically represented and been emphasized as a means of mobility for particularly Black individuals. ...

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U.S. Public Opinion About the Personal Development and Social Capital Benefits of Sport: Analyzing Components of the Great Sport Myth

... These dynamics can be reflected in the research questions that are being asked or ignored, but also broader interrogations about how they are answered, who is answering them, and who and how is interpreting the answers. All of these choices mediate epistemic authority over scientific knowledge (6,(16)(17)(18)(19)(20). Greater focus on feminist reflexivity, which demands researchers' awareness about not only their positionality 3 within a given system but also their intellectual and personal (ethical) engagement in the epistemic and political contexts in which their research projects are imbued (6) is critical. ...

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Swimming Upstream: System-wide Constraints of Policy Relevant and Politically Engaged Feminist Research