Sensitive Condition of the Tesearch Experience During the Pandemic

ABSTRACT

The outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic required several readjustments of daily life and work, including redefining the paths of ongoing research. For researchers who needed to make approximations and interactions with field subjects, these changes also involved emotional and ethical accommodations. In this sense, the objective of this article is to discuss the research experience of two doctoral students during isolation. We use the concepts of sensitive themes, sensitive conditions, and experience to build the theoretical framework and methodology of the duoethnography for the production of information and the construction of dialogue. The analysis of narratives allowed organizing the plot of the experiences lived by the doctoral students during the pandemic, revealing that expectations, frustrations, and loss of meaning are not externalities but part of the research experience. The recognition of the researcher's human condition helped to understand the sensitive condition of the research experience.