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Van Cleave, J., & Marn, T. (2025). Producing Participants: Trustworthiness as Convenient Fiction. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004251383520

Trustworthiness in qualitative research reports is considered a marker of quality and rigor. That rigor relies on factors like transparency and reflexivity, or the extent to which a researcher can accurately and clearly—read: believably—write the story of the research, the participants, and themselves. In this article, we argue that all representations of research participants, including the researchers themselves, are fiction, and distinctions between fiction and the “real” are actually undesirable when the goal is to maintain (or establish) trustworthiness. Indeed, it is essential to the research report not to claim those fictions but instead to establish verisimilitude by combining compelling descriptions with compulsory claims to the real. As such, we emphasize that trustworthiness is not an attribute of research that a study either has or does not; rather, we argue it is something authors achieve through a carefully constructed, fictionalized account of their research. © The Author(s) 2025
Van Cleave, J., Wolgemuth, J. R., & Marn, T. (2025). Manufacturing Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research as a Writerly and Readerly Accomplishment: Introduction to the Special Issue. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004251383514

This article introduces the special issue, “Manufacturing Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research.” Rather than viewing trustworthiness as an inherent product of high-quality research practices, this special issue considers how researchers manifest and construct appearances of trustworthiness within and through academic texts. Conceptualizing trustworthiness as produced within scholarly writing opens the idea of trustworthiness to broader scrutiny, but also to a wider array of possibility—if trustworthiness is not singular or solely produced through methodology, then it is malleable and full of potential. It is not one trustworthiness, but a million tiny trustworthiness manifested and proliferated across multiple research accounts and readerly engagements. This is our special issue’s conceptual play space that sometimes pushes on and against the notion of trustworthiness itself, and in which the authors, coming from a range of orientations, explore and tinker with their ideas of trustworthiness, highlighting how they produce their research as “trustworthy.” © The Author(s) 2025

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