Reclaiming Impact in Qualitative Research

In both academic and practitioner literature, the term "impact" is conceptualized broadly.Yet the application of impact is construed much more narrowly, in association Food Service:Commercial Kitchen Equipment:Cooking Equipment:Commercial Ranges:Gas Ranges with (uni)-directional relationships between variables and methodological frameworks oriented towards a positivist approach.Such a conceptualization is problematic, particularly in the context of initiatives that have a goal of internal, individual transformation.

Thus, I suggest reconceptualizing impact to acknowledge human agency and explore change more holistically.I argue for a reclaiming of impact by the post-positivist qualitative research Keychains community, given the potential of qualitative methodologies to elucidate dialogic understandings of impact and the intersubjective context through which transformation emerges.