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Although the researcher may speak with some authority in the writing up of the analysis, it is vitally important to the validity of the study that the researcher also admits to the limitations of their perspectives and portrayal of the reality of the research field (Brewer, 2000). Rural research has come to embrace similar criteria as the importance of reaching ‘shared understandings about a topic’ between researcher and researched has grown within the discipline (Hughes et al., 2000). In the words of Pini (2003a, p. 422): ‘It is not the method we use, but how we use the method that gives value to women’s experience’.