Bryan C. Clift is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and Director of the Centre for Qualitative Research (CQR) in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Department for Health at the University of Bath, UK.

Ioannis Costas Batlle is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, UK, and a Co-Director of the Centre for Qualitative Research.

Sheree Bekker is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department for Health at the University of Bath, UK. She is a member of the Centre for Qualitative Research, Centre for Health and Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (CHI2PS), and UK Collaborating Centre on Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (UKCCIIS).

Katharina Chudzikowsi is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Organisation Studies at the School of Management, University of Bath, UK.

Introduction: The Relevance and Importance of Researcher Vulnerability in Qualitative Research 1. Vulnerability, the Pursuit of Knowledge, and the Humanity of Doing Research; Section I: Strategies for Negotiating Researcher Vulnerability 2. Research Journaling to Deal with Vulnerabilities in Research 3. Qualitative Analysis in Online Research: Protecting Against Researcher Vulnerabilities 4. Supporting Emotionally Demanding Research: Developing Guidance for a University Research Centre 5. Addressing Researcher Vulnerability with the Trauma and Resilience Informed Research Principles and Practices Framework; Section II: Experiences of Researcher Vulnerability 6. Sticking Your Head Above the Parapet: On the Importance of Researcher Resilience in Auto/biographical Writing 7. Affecting Accounts: Autobiographical Memoirs and the Vulnerable Researcher 8. Researcher, Fighter, Cunt: Vulnerability and Violence in the MMA Field 9. Ethnographic Vulnerabilities: Power, Politics, and Possibility; Section III: Embracing Researcher Vulnerability 10. Femme Praxis: Using Femme Theory to Foster Vulnerability within Research Design and Institutions 11. Framing Transdisciplinary Research as an Assemblage: A Case Study from a Mental Health Setting 12. 'Please Explain to Me How I'm Vulnerable': Learning How to Rework Experiences of Researcher Vulnerability by Listening Carefully to Care-Experienced Young People