Illuminating skills and knowledges of women who have lost a male partner to suicide: A feminist insider narrative practice research project
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Abstract
This qualitative exploratory study, from a feminist insider position, uses narrative practice to privilege the insider knowledge of widows 1 , and to contribute new knowledge about how women respond to the suicide of a male partner.Narrative therapy, co-developed by Michael White and David Epston (1990), is a non-pathologising practice that situates experiences of hardship in their historical and social contexts.It supports people to free themselves from stigmas generated by contemporary attitudes and to craft preferred identities.Narrative practices arose specifically to counter discourses that marginalise and stigmatise people, and is thus particularly suited to assisting those bereaved by suicide as they are subject to significant stigmatisation.Feminist-informed qualitative research is underpinned by a reflexivity in relation to one's own positioning, interests, values and knowledges.It 'generates problematics from the perspective of women's experiences' (Harding, 1987, p. 6).In this project, I drew on my own lived experience of bereavement, which came about through the suicide of my husband and father of my children 16 years ago.Influenced by Wilkinson and Kitzinger (2013), this study does not minimise or maximise insider experience; rather it uses it in transparent ways.Seventeen women were interviewed from Australia, the United States and Canada.These women brought expertise, commitment and care to the project.The women's rigorous contributions were thematically analysed using Braun and Clarke's (2006) six phases of reflexive thematic analysis in a manner consistent with narrative practice and feminist understandings.1 In this thesis I use the term 'widow' in a way that is inclusive of all women who have lost a (male) partner, regardless of marital status, and use 'partner' in the same way.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.017 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it