A living bibliography on the (non)uses of Generative AI in qualitative research
Abstract
A living bibliography on the (non)uses of Generative AI in qualitative research A curated, continuously updated reading list tracking how qualitative researchers adopt, condition, contest and refuse generative AI. Refusal and non-use are treated as first-class subject matter rather than a gap in adoption — hence (non)uses. Version 1.1 contains 34 references, 21 of them with an extended annotation: a short accessible summary, a verbatim quote from the source, the research stages the text addresses, and five key words. Entries are organised by research stage rather than by date or stance. An opening section on the debate as a whole ("the whole question"), then design and instruments, fieldwork and collection, coding and analysis, interpretation and quality, and finally writing up, disclosure and ethics. Each text is placed at the stage it addresses in substance, and tagged as empirical, conceptual or position. Every entry carries a resolvable DOI or stable link and a one-line reason it is included. Preprints are labelled. The document closes with an explicit statement of what is thin and what is missing entirely: currently non-Western and multilingual research, ethnography rather than interview coding, Global-South authorship, participants' own views on AI handling their words, and institutional refusal statements. Intended for qualitative methods researchers, doctoral and early-career researchers, and research groups reflecting on their own position on these tools. Distributed as a 21-page A4 PDF. Curated by Marie Meudec, Datahub, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (Belgium), as part of AI in qualitative research — Explore (mis)use of AI in qualitative research: https://www.itg.be/en/research/datahub-ai-in-qualitative-research New versions are deposited as the list grows; the concept DOI always resolves to the most recent one. Suggestions for inclusion are welcome: send me the full reference, DOI, and one sentence on why it belongs.