Caught in the middle: early career researchers, public health and the emotional production of research

Lucherini

doi:10.1080/09581596.2018.1550252

Caught in the middle: early career researchers, public health and the emotional production of research

Lucherini

Authors

Mark Lucherini m.lucherini@keele.ac.uk

Abstract

In this short report, I discuss how public health research, its assessment, and its dissemination outside the academy are produced, in part, through emotional circumstances. Using current debates on e-cigarettes as an example, I show that researchers find themselves uncomfortably positioned in complicated moral and affective landscapes, often making it difficult to represent the nuance of their research. I draw from the experiences and discussions of early career researchers to argue that this pressure can be intensified by the influence of senior colleagues, research communities and wider publics. While the social construction of knowledge has been acknowledged within much disciplinary introspection, the emotional and affective dimensions of knowledge production are perhaps under-appreciated and it is those dimensions that this report seeks to foreground.

Acceptance Date	Nov 9, 2018
Publication Date	Nov 26, 2018
Journal	Critical Public Health
Print ISSN	0958-1596
Publisher	Routledge
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2018.1550252
Keywords	Tobacco research; electronic cigarettes; early career researcher; emotion
Publisher URL	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09581596.2018.1550252