Internasionale lof vir baanbrekerswerk van PhD-gegradueerde in Sielkunde
January 31, 2012 
27 Opmerkings
Rose Richards
Die doktorale proefskrif van ‘n PhD-gegradueerde in die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US) se Departement Sielkunde is onlangs as een van tien aangewys wat in 2011 eervolle vermelding van die Internasionale Instituut vir Kwalitatiewe Metodologie (IIQM) ontvang het.
Menige akademikus van oor die hele wêreld stuur jaarliks hul proefskrifte na die Instituut, wat vanaf die Universiteit van Alberta in Kanada werk, om om die IIQM-proefskrifprys mee te ding.
Volgens me Rose Richards, wat aan die US se Taalsentrum verbonde is, het haar navorsing oor die belewing van chroniese siekte gehandel. Sy het haar eie “ervaring van chroniese niersiekte, dialise, oorplanting en die lewe ná oorplanting gebruik om te verken wat dit beteken om die storie van chroniese-siektebelewing te vertel”.
Sy het die navorsingswerk vir haar proefskrif met behulp van die metodologie van outo-etnografie onderneem, wat sowel akademiese as persoonlike skryfwerk behels het.
“Outo-etnografie het my ook in staat gestel om my eie verhaal en ervarings te kontekstualiseer teen die groter agtergrond van kwalitatiewe gesondheidsnavorsing, siekteverhale, en die toenemende klomp navorsing oor die liminale staat om iets wat eens noodlottig was te oorleef en daarná vir die res van jou lewe met jou saam te dra. Ek het ontdek dat om gesond te word ewe traumaties was as om siek te word,” verduidelik Richards, wat haar graad by die US se Maart-gradeplegtigheid sal ontvang.
“Daarbenewens kon ek met akademiese vorm speel en bepaal hoe ver ek die gebruike van die genre kon verander sonder om nie-akademies te word. Veral daardie deel was groot pret.”
Richards sê sy sy was in die wolke oor die nuus dat haar proefskrif as goed genoeg beskou is om om die prys mee te ding, en heeltemal oorstelp om onder die beste tien te wees.
“Dit is ‘n ontsaglike bekragtiging van my werk. My navorsing het vir my persoonlik ongelooflik baie beteken, en dit voel werklik goed om te weet dat dit vir ander ook van waarde was. Ek was eers bekommerd dat dit wat ek gedoen het, nie juis vir ander nut sou hê nie, maar die feit dat ek die kortlys gehaal het, bewys dat my werk tot ander ook kan spreek.”
Volgens haar studieleier, prof Leslie Swartz van die Departement Sielkunde, is Richards se werk “van die interessantste en oorspronklikste” wat hy al ooit bevoorreg was om oor toesig te hou. “Ek glo dus dat haar baanbrekerswerk dié internasionale erkenning dubbel en dwars verdien,” sê Swartz.
Dit was professor Sally Thorne, ‘n eksaminator en professor in Verpleegkunde aan die Universiteit van Brits-Columbië in Kanada, wat Richards aangemoedig het om haar werk vir oorweging in te dien. Thorne is wêreldbekend vir haar beduidende werk oor kwalitatiewe gesondheidsnavorsingsmetodologie. Die Kanadese organisasie Women’s Executive Network het haar in 2009 as een van Kanada se 100 invloedrykste vroue aangewys.
Thorne het Richards se werk beskryf as een van die “opwindendste en kragtigste stukke oorspronklike wetenskap” wat sy tot dusver onder oë gehad het.
“Die navorsing wou denke ‘loswoel’ by sowel die outeur as haar uiteindelike gehoor, en het dít duidelik op ʼn briljante en boeiende manier reggekry,” skryf Thorne.
Dear Rose, this is a job well done. As a former “Matie” and Alumnus, I say thank you for this achievement. I wish I had thousand hands to applaud with no stop.
Thank you for exploring and having the ability to navigate in unfamiliar territories of auto-ethnography.
Guy-Roger
Hi Rose
I’ve been diagnosed with End Stage Renal Failure in April 2011. It has been a difficult journey up to now. Will it be possible if you could e-mail me your thesis, I think it would be beneficial for me as well as my support system.
Kind regards
Stella
Well done, Rose!
You’re one of the clearest, most gentle people who’ve have ever tutored me (…MPA Contact Week 2011). God bless you!
Congratulations Rose
You continue to inspire us in the doctoral scholarship… we draw on your strength and know that we will make it too!!
Marcia
This is excellent news. Congratulations and well done and here’s to more success in the future.
Nalini
Dear Rose (Dr Rose that is!)
Congratulations with this wonderful achievement – a well deserved award at the end of your PhD journey and motivation for great things to come.
I was thrilled to read this news. Congratulations, Rose. This achievement made all the long hours of hard work even more worthwhile. Nadine
Fantastic achievement Rose…congratulations!
This is good work. Congratulations.
By Mooketsi Bennedict Tekere (Stellenbosch University MPHIL Alumni).
I knew I had an exceptional roommate on the Greek tour. You enjoy life, you savour the challenge and whatever it offers you. Again, congratulations. I hope we can have another tour togehter and I promise not to break anything!
Hello Rose
Well done and congratulations. You’re truly an inspiration top all of us who seeks to produce something meaningful. May you enjoy many more highlights in return of your hard work.
Rose, this recognition of your fine achievement bears testimony to your deep strength, sheer determination and resilience. What a brilliant woman you are! This is only the beginning and I am privileged to watch you fly.
Rose, congratulations on your outstanding academic achievement. As a doctoral student, reading this article reinvigorates me to complete my own work. I wish you everything of the best as this is the beginning of more successful journeys that you will be travelling on. Cheers,
Anisa
Dear Rose, Congratulations on a number of counts! I am sooooooooooo thrilled for you! I say a HUGE THANK YOU for making a very significant mark for auto-ethnography! Please know that your contribution to self study research approaches will be greatly enhanced because of your excellent achievement. What a wonderful example you set us all of how to make high quality lemonade out of really bad lemons! love, Joan
Rose, what a superb accomplishment and so impressive. To have taken on all that, while so ill, and to have finished not just a dissertation (a feat in itself)but one selected as one of the ten best among an international competition is a tribute to how awesome you are. Keep on inspiring us all.
Mickey
Well done, Rose! So proud of you!
Hi rose, I just read about this heartwarming news. It is fantastic. Congratulations! This is the best gift to us for the year 2012. You have given women another level of impetus to fly higher. Thank God for your life, your gift of astuteness and determination and above all , your gift of reaching out to others in a special way. Fly higher and higher. God bless.
Wonderful achievement, Rose. So very thrilled for you.
Well done Rose! You are an inspiration.
Congratulations Rose! You have proven without a doubt that you are the best! And that without the slightest hint of arrogance. I am proud to know you.
Dear Rose,
Congratulations on this remarkable achievement. We know how hard you worked, and it is wonderful to see you are receiving due recognition for your effort.
We are so proud of you,
From all of us at SUN MeDIA.
Congratulations Rose. You are trully a woman of strength and academic excellency. Wish you God’s richest blessings for the future.
Rose
We are so proud of you. Thanks for encouraging us at the research support group. You really are for us an excellent example of commitment, positive thinking and determination.
Hi Rose,
Congratulations and well done!
Dear Rose
What wonderful accomplishments: overcoming illness, completing the PhD and the acclaimed recognition!
Best wishes with the post-doc (pressure:)).
Kind regards
Jean
Hi Rose, congratulations!
Hi Rose, I just saw this article about your amazing academic achievement, and I must say – with the success of completing your PhD, there shall be more challenges, obstacles and opportunities in life. Face and tackle them with the same zeal, vigour and determination, as you have always done. Congratulations on completing your PhD and best wishes for your future life.