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Intercultural and cross-linguistic perspectives on whump genre - information, interview registration of interest form

I can now announce more information about my upcoming research on whump / whump interest! ✨✨✨

As part of my research thesis for my Masters of Contemporary International Studies, I am conducting research on "Intercultural and cross-linguistic perspectives on whump genre."

This study has been approved by the Research and Development Committee of IPU New Zealand Tertiary Institute. The approval was made on the 3rd of May, 2023.

This research two participation opportunities:

- A questionnaire (open Thursday 1st June, 9pm (NZST) - Thursday 29th June, 9pm (NZST))

- An interview (throughout June-July)

For the purpose of this research, to participate in the questionnaire and/or in the interview, you must:

Additionally, as the interview explores whump through the perspective of different languages, for the interview you must also:

Note: Participants are not required to consider themselves a part of the whump community in order to participate in this study.

Interview information ---------------

Interview participants will be given two options to choose between:

Spoken interviews will be recorded. Spoken interview participants are not required to have video turned on during the interview. The researcher will contact interview participants following interview participant selection to schedule a suitable time for spoken interviews.

For any written interviews conducted via Tumblr direct messaging, the researcher will use the Tumblr handle @callaei-researches to communicate with the participant.

Interview - Registration of interest form -------------

If you are interested in participating in the interview, please fill in the form below! (same link as the top of the post)

Additional information -------------

This research defines whump as, "Whump is a genre of fiction that places emphasis on a character's physical and emotional experience of pain, and often recovery, in a story."

Important things to note about the research (see the information sheets under the "keep reading" for detailed information):

- this is an academic research project (Master's research thesis)

- the questionnaire is entirely anonymous

- the interview requires a means of direct communication with the researcher, but this information will not be shared. In the research, interviewees will be referred to as "Interviewee 1," "Interviewee 2," etc.

- responses are entirely voluntary, and you may withdraw at any time during the research period

- any personally identifying information will be kept confidential and accessible only to myself (the researcher) and my research supervisor.

Detailed information -------------

More information about the questionnaire, the interview, and the registration of interest form can be found here. These will be also given at the beginning of the questionnaire, the registration of interest form, and to all participants selected for the interview.

Questionnaire information sheet

Interview information sheet

Interview - Registration of interest information sheet

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

SOMEONE ASKED FOR THE STATS FROM THE WHUMP SURVEY SO HERE :)

Apparently I've reached the image limit, so here you go. :) I haven't included the individual response questions but here's the main summary. :D

This is so interesting— Thank you!

Update: the research project is completed!! 🎉🎉✨

I'm just waiting on some marks to come in, but last week I submitted my final progress report, and this week (yesterday), I had to give a final viva presentation. So expect a summary of results soon!

My supervisor and head of research committee (to whom I presented my proposal to about this time last year) have said they were impressed by the research, and have given me really good feedback on the project. I'm saying this here because I want you all to know that this wouldn't have been possible without everyone's support and participation in this research. I'm appreciative beyond words.

That this research matters in some way to people - knowing this, it's been a major encouragement to me that's helped me grind through some pretty energy draining work-heavy weeks. Thank you!

Posting of summary results info:

I'll need to give my brain a little bit of rest after all that (and while it finishes off the last of other stuff for uni this semester), but I hope to have a summary of results posted here in the next few weeks.

📫 For those of you who have given your email address during the survey period, I will also send you each a summary of results via email. I will also mention any Tumblr blogs who have expressed they would like to be notified when the summary of results are up.

Ahhhh it's finally donnnneee!!!!! I've really enjoyed working on this research, and I'm really happy with how it's turned out!!

I'm looking forward to sharing this with you!

UPDATE: The survey response period has been extended until August 13, 9pm (NZT)!

This is for two reasons:

The survey response period will now close August 13, 9pm (NZT). Thank you for all your responses and reblogs so far!

If you haven't participated in the survey yet, you can find more information about it and the link to the Google Form questionnaire on the post in the link below:

Sociocultural identities of the whump community: investigating cross-cultural interest in the fictional genre of whump and hurt/comfort

Response period: July 16, 9pm (NZT) - August 6, 9pm (NZT)

This survey may take approximately 10-15mins. There are a few open questions in the questionnaire, but these are optional.

At the beginning of the questionnaire, there is an information sheet. It serves as a consent form, so please give this a read. But in case it looks like too many words, here's the gist of it: - this is an academic research project - responses are entirely anonymous - responses are entirely voluntary and you may withdraw at any time during the survey - responses (including any information you voluntarily give in support of the research) will be kept confidential

Purpose of research:

This research will investigate the nature of whump interest in order to gain a better understanding of the appeal of the hurt/comfort genre, the identity of the whump fan community and the application of whump in story writing and trauma processing.

The aim is to provide new knowledge to an under-researched area, such as a psychological, sociocultural and literary perspective on whump interest that so far only informal research and discussions and some academic essays have sought to raise discussion of. Conducting this research at an academic level of research will thereby aid in laying a foundation for future academic research on the topic. This questionnaire is part of this research.

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After the response collection period, I will aim to share a summary of the results here on this blog in the following month or two (TBC).

If you would like to receive notification of this via tagging on Tumblr, or receive the summary via email, please let me know in the end optional comment section of the questionnaire.

NB: Participants are not required to consider themselves a part of the whump community in order to participate in this survey.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask!