ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the process of my research methodology. I present reflections on my actions and decisions in the field, which involve my thoughts, impressions, frustrations, decisions, confusions, pains and joys as I journeyed through the research field. How I dealt with my high and low moments, my successes as well as my mistakes is all laid bare. This justifies my engagement with the qualitative research process, vis-à-vis embracing feminist approaches to research, employing snowballing in recruiting my participants, addressing ethical issues in research, the interviewing process and my data collation.
I talk about how the feminist approach to qualitative research helped me to negotiate the “muddy ambiguity” which marks the research process, and to appreciate the intersubjective elements that inform research outcomes. It enabled me to lay bare some of the methodological quagmires I faced in the research field and challenge some of the research processes that over the years, have been overlooked and oversimplified in texts and academic thesis.
