ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at a number of different ideas with the intention of providing a new researcher with an entry point into research. For the author, as with many researchers, the processes of knowledge creation sit in tension. On one side lies creativity and applying personal values to the work, while on the other lies the need to follow certain approaches to ensure the results will have credibility. The chapter begins to bring those ideas alongside each other and explores that tension. The idea of being purposeful and systematic when conducting research may be read to point to a specific “scientific” and linear view of the process as opposed to a more emergent and personal model. The research strategy is the way the researcher thinks about generating knowledge. Researchers have an ethical duty to think through the advantages their positions may bring, and it is not only about ethnicity.
