Gustavsson, Madeleine
(2021).
Exploring the changing roles, identities and wellbeing of women in small-scale fishing families, 2018-2020.
[Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex:
UK Data Service.
10.5255/UKDA-SN-854502
To explore and raise their profile, this project will examine women's roles, identities and wellbeing in fishing families. The research focuses on the roles women play in responding to recent economic downturns in the fishing sector. i) Recent research has shown that diversifying fishing businesses - by operating in several different areas to spread the risk of low catches - can help small-scale fishers to create stable incomes. Examples of diversification strategies are processing of fish and opening a restaurant where the caught fish can be sold at a higher price. Whilst the contributions of women within fisheries diversification have been noted as important, no research to date has explored this in-depth. ii) The project will also consider how the fishing family can adapt to economic downturns by seeking non-fishing employment.
Alongside this, previous research has noted that women support the wellbeing and health of their male fishing partners but this research has not explored the wellbeing of women themselves.
By responding to these gaps in knowledge, this research will study women's changing roles in fishing families and how this is associated with women's changing identities and their wellbeing.
To meet the research aims, the research will use a qualitative approach - a method of study which involves interviewing people and listening to their experiences.
In exploring these aspects of the fishing family, this research will provide new and vital insights into how fishing families can develop resilience to changes in their industry, and how governments can support this. It will also show how changes in fishing families can affect the wellbeing of women and if more could be done to support them.
Data description (abstract)
The data collection includes anonymised interview transcripts. The interviews are narrative based interviews that focus on exploring participants biographical narratives. The data was collected throughout the UK in the year of 2019. Interviews focused on understanding the lived experiences of women in fisheries through exploring participant’s biographical narratives around what it meant for them to be part of a fishing family, or to be working in the fishery, and how this had evolved over time.
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Sponsors: |
Economic and Social Research Council
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Grant reference: |
ES/R00580X/1
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Topic classification: |
Economics Trade, industry and markets Society and culture
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Keywords: |
WOMEN, FISHERIES, ENTREPRENEURS, FAMILIES, BIOGRAPHIES, WOMEN'S ROLE, PERSONAL IDENTITY, WELL-BEING (HEALTH)
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Project title: |
Exploring the changing role(s), identities and wellbeing of women in small-scale fishing families
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Grant holders: |
Madeleine Gustavsson
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Project dates: |
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1 May 2018 | 31 October 2020 |
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Date published: |
12 Feb 2021 14:42
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Last modified: |
12 Feb 2021 14:43
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Collection period: |
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1 May 2018 | 31 October 2020 |
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Country: |
United Kingdom |
Data collection method: |
Women in Fisheries. In this project a total of 24 women were interviewed in 2019 and the interviewed women had varying forms of involvement in fishing: women worked with fish – either by capturing (2), processing, selling or marketing fish (13), women worked in fisheries organisations (2) – or women were part of fishing families (7). The total data set is taken from a sample of 24 women. All of the women were part of the UK’s small-scale fishery (that is boats under 10m in size) and most of them had someone in their family who fished for shellfish and/or fish (most often male partners but in some cases also fathers). They were recruited through advertising on social media and in fisheries organisations and forums as well as through chain-referral sampling. The in-depth qualitative interviews were mostly individual face-to-face interviews but occasionally the interviews were joint interviews with mothers and daughters or mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. The interviews lasted from 40 min to 2h and involved visiting participants in a place of their choosing – often in their homes or their place of work. |
Observation unit: |
Individual, Family: Household family |
Kind of data: |
Text |
Type of data: |
Qualitative and mixed methods data |
Resource language: |
English |
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Data sourcing, processing and preparation: |
The research project has been reviewed by the University of Exeter Medical School Research Ethics Committee. Informed consent was sought from all participants, after providing accessible information about the purpose, methods, intended uses and potential risks of the research.
The data has been anonymised - that is, names of places, people or other obvious identifiers have been removed or, in some places, pseudonyms are used ensure anonymity. In some cases particular sections of transcripts that are either irrelevant to the research focus, and/or risk identifying participants have been removed. The thick contextual and biographical description in this research means that any user of the data should make sure to act in such a was as to continually ensure the confidentiality and anonymity of participants - there may be cases when contextual information or unique stories may identify participants even if we have tried to avoid this as much as possible.
During data anonymisation, we have removed identifiers such as names, names of places, as well as contextual information that may identify participants. Irrelevant off-topic conversations have also been removed when these, whilst not contributing to ensuring data integrity, may reveal the identity of participants. Whilst 24 women in the UK were interviewed for the whole research project, this data collection only includes the transcript of the participants that consented to archiving their data transcripts.
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Notes on access: |
The UK Data Archive has granted a dissemination embargo. The embargo will end in January 2022 and the data will then be available in accordance with the access level selected.
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Publisher: |
UK Data Service
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Last modified: |
12 Feb 2021 14:43
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