Conducting sexualities research: an outline of emergent issues and case studies from ten Wellcome-funded projects
- Kneale, Dylan
- French, Robert
- Spandler, Helen
- Young, Ingrid
- Purcell, Carrie
- Boden, Zoë
- Brown, Steven D.
- Callwood, Dan
- Carr, Sarah
- Dymock, Alex
- Eastham, Rachael
- Gabb, Jacqui
- Henley, Josie
- Jones, Charlotte
- McDermott, Elizabeth
- Mkhwanazi, Nolwazi
- Ravenhill, James
- Reavey, Paula
- Scott, Rachel
- Smith, Clarissa
- Smith, Matthew
- Thomas, James
- Tingay, Karen
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This letter seeks to synthesise methodological challenges encountered in a cohort of Wellcome Trust-funded research projects focusing on sexualities and health. The ten Wellcome Trust projects span a diversity of gender and sexual orientations and identities, settings; institutional and non-institutional contexts, lifecourse stages, and explore a range of health-related interventions. As researchers, we originate from a breadth of disciplinary traditions, use a variety of research methods and data sources. Despite this breadth, four common themes are found across the projects: (i) inclusivity, representations and representativeness, (ii) lumping together of diverse groups, (iii) institutions and closed settings (iv) ethical and governance b...