A researcher always have plainful, instead of joyful, experience when they reflecting of their action taken. I, as an autoethnographer, came across of this journey, and the result is fruitful.
Any similar experience to share?
I understand your frustration, and work around avoiding that feeling. All my work is Practice based and relates to the removal rather than management of Chronic Pain. As a Practitioner I do have the joy of seeing people in pain become free of it, and as it happens in front of me in a single session it is incredibly rewarding emotionally. However as a scientific researcher we are testing out a hypothesis looking to disprove it, whilst hoping we don't. This is very confusing for our mindset and we also have the issue of removing anything that might make something work, that we want to exclude from the process. For many scientific research studies that is necessary, but when dealing with humans, treating them like anonymous lab rats distorts the actual outcomes that can come from a human approach of listening, caring and reacting, which enhances the placebo effect, a very real bodily reaction that is self healing. The more we can design research to find and analyse the data under complex circumstances the more we all learn what we should be studying and what to study next from the learning absorbed and the closer we get to solutions.
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I appreciate your comment. I am not frustrated at all. I shared this question for discussion purposes. I believe that both reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action are crucial activities for practice-led researchers. I have noticed a lack of literature discussing the challenges involved in an effective reflective process, which is essential for producing meaningful results that researchers can build on. I have personally encountered these challenges and I want to emphasize their impact on an effective reflection process for researchers.
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