Post by Nurdan Kavaklı-Ulutaş

New publication alert 📣 Happy to share our new publication “Navigating the Tightrope: A Joint Autoethnography on Challenges and Strategies in Participant Recruitment for Educational Research” in the International Journal of Scholars in Education. Drawing on a collaborative autoethnography grounded in a collective self-interview, Nesrin Ozturk, Joaquim Vinte, and I reflected on our own recruitment experiences across Türkiye, the United States and Mozambique. The study surfaced four major themes shaping recruitment success or failure. These involved the dynamics between researchers and participants, cultural expectations, contextual pressures of teaching loads and ethical approval timelines together with the ongoing debate around incentives. We hope it offers other early career and established researchers an honest look at what recruitment actually feels like on the ground. Open access: https://lnkd.in/gpzfKkJG #EducationalResearch #Autoethnography #ResearchMethods #AppliedLinguistics #ELT