Climate adaptation research in Africa increasingly acknowledges Indigenous knowledge systems, yet this recognition has not always transformed the methodological conditions through which such knowledge is produced, interpreted and validated. Indigenous communities are often invited to contribute local knowledge while research questions, sampling logics, ethical procedures, evidentiary standards and analytical categories remain shaped by Eurocentric and technocratic assumptions. This article advances Afrocentric participatory methods as a framework for Indigenous climate adaptation research in Africa. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork in Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe, it argues that methodological congruence matters: it is inconsistent to adopt Afrocentricity as a theoretical lens while relying on methodologies that leave African epistemologies peripheral. The article reflects on how Afrocentricity shaped research entry, participant identification, consent, data generation, translation, member checking and analysis. It focuses on three Indigenous data-generation tools: Talking Circles, transect walks and philosophic sagacity conversations. Talking Circles are examined as communal epistemic forums through which participants narrated, debated and interpreted climate change through oral tradition, memory, proverbs and shared experience. Transect walks are reconceptualised as engagements with landscape as living archive, where rivers, forests, sacred sites, agricultural fields, cyclone-altered terrains and ecological indicators generated situated climate histories. Philosophic sagacity conversations engaged elders, traditional leaders and knowledge custodians as reflective thinkers whose interpretations illuminated the ethical, spiritual and philosophical foundations of adaptation. The article further shows how relational ethics became central in a post-disaster and politically sensitive field context through layered engagement with state and traditional authorities, customised consent, documentation restraint and participant protection. It concludes that Afrocentric participatory methods offer a rigorous pathway for producing climate adaptation knowledge that is academically credible, ethically accountable and answerable to African communities.
Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) states that children and young people have the right to express views freely and to have those views given due weight in all matters affecting them. The Lundy Model of Participation is a widely adopted framework for conceptualising Article 12, proposing four interrelated elements, space , voice , audience and influence are required for meaningful participation. As a participatory research method, photovoice is well-suited to support youth participation. Furthermore, it has been suggested that it can be used to operationalise the Lundy model, thus, establishing photovoice as a research method for promoting youth participation. This review, therefore examined how the participatory methodological processes described in youth health research using photovoice align with the four elements of the Lundy model. Fifty-two papers published since 1997 were identified. Findings suggest that photovoice offers great potential to support the enactment of article 12 of the UNCRC. Researchers commonly described strategies to create safe and inclusive spaces and to facilitate youth voice. However, considerably less attention was given to reporting processes related to audience and influence. This lack of attention risks positioning youth participation in photovoice research as tokenistic rather than genuinely participatory.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) are being adopted across law firms and legal departments, yet little is known about how agile methodologies are used to manage these implementations. Although the literatures on agile software development and on AI applied to law are each abundant, their intersection, namely the agile management of AI/RPA implementation in the legal domain, remains poorly characterized. This gap matters for the management field because the chosen project-conduct method directly affects known risks of AI initiatives. This protocol describes the methods for a rapid review, with a scoping orientation, that will map the 2022-2026 literature at the intersection of agile methodologies, AI/RPA, and the legal context, guided by a population-concept-context (PCC) question: how have agile methodologies been applied to manage the implementation of AI and RPA solutions in law firms and legal departments? The review follows the guidelines of the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group and is reported per PRISMA-ScR, with the protocol prepared per PRISMA-P and registered on the Open Science Framework. Searches cover Scopus, Web of Science, and IEEE Xplore, complemented by a structured national search (CAPES Theses Catalogue and BDTD) and grey literature (Google Scholar), combining three PCC concept blocks. Records are screened in two phases by two independent reviewers in Rayyan, with disagreements resolved by documented consensus and agreement reported with prevalence-adjusted indices; data are charted in a piloted form, appraised with JBI tools, and synthesized through descriptive mapping and a SWiM-structured narrative. The protocol supports a transparent, reproducible mapping of an emerging, management-relevant field.
This article examines how 12 Libyan women teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in public secondary schools retrospectively described the possible implications of interviewer gender for participation and the production of interview accounts, and how interactional and reflexive records informed and bounded subsequent analysis. The methodological inquiry was nested within a parent interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) study in which each participant completed three sequential Arabic interviews. All 12 closing exchanges concerning a hypothetical male interviewer entered the cross-case analysis, contextualised by relevant preceding interview segments and reflexive records. Grounded in interpretivist–constructivist epistemology and feminist situated inquiry, the study treated interview accounts as situated articulations rather than transparent representations of experience, and interviewer activity as part of the evidentiary record. Feminist reflexive methodology guided coding, cross-case comparison, translation review, analysis of rival interpretations, and documented claim revision. Cross-case differentiation generated a bounded heuristic of configured epistemic access comprising four analytic sites, participation, modality, topical reach, and interactional register, while trust, biography, personality, language, authority, privacy, setting, religion, topic, and relationship history remained co-configuring conditions. Configured epistemic access is a sensitising analytic device that can also function as a reflexive audit structure; it is not a causal model, developmental sequence, validated scale, or fixed coding framework. Its methodological contribution is an evidentiary procedure for locating where a focal positional condition appears consequential, distinguishing that site from its co-configuring conditions, examining interactional evidence and rival interpretations, and documenting how reflexive scrutiny sustains, narrows, or rejects the claim. The analysis concerns anticipated differences in hypothetical male-interviewer encounters, not observed gender effects, and makes no population-level or quantitative claim about gendered disclosure.
Background Optimizing maternal care experiences during the postpartum period is imperative for mitigating maternal–neonatal morbidity and sustaining long-term dyadic well-being. Nevertheless, empirical evidence delineating the determinants of postpartum care experiences and translating them into actionable strategies remains limited in primary healthcare. This study aims to quantify postpartum care experiences and associated factors, elucidate underlying explanatory mechanisms, and formulate context-specific enhancement strategies using an explanatory sequential mixed methods design. Method This three-phase study will be conducted in Tabriz, Iran. In Phase I (quantitative), an analytical cross-sectional study will recruit 360 women at 8–10 weeks postpartum from comprehensive health centers via multistage random sampling with proportional allocation. Data will be collected using a sociodemographic–obstetric questionnaire, the Postpartum Care Experience Scale (PCES), the Women’s Views of Birth Postnatal Satisfaction Questionnaire (WOMBPNSQ), the Postpartum Specific Anxiety Scale – Research Short-Form (PSAS-RSF), the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), the Maternal Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (MSQ), and checklists for exclusive breastfeeding and subsequent-pregnancy intention. Multivariable general linear models and logistic regression will be used for data analysis. In Phase II (qualitative), purposively selected extreme-case participants will undergo in-depth, semi-structured interviews analyzed via directed content analysis framed by Donabedian’s healthcare quality paradigm. In Phase III, integrated findings with an integrative review will inform actionable strategies developed and validated through a modified Delphi consensus process.
