Abstract: This article serves as an introduction to the FQS special issue Participatory Qualitative Research.. In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in participatory research strategies. The articles in this special issue come from different disciplines.
Top definition. Bottom-Dweller. An insult which indicates that the recipient is a member of society's lowest levels. This may have stemmed from Elizabethean times, when the poorer viewers at a theatre had to watch from the ground (hence their nickname, 'Groundlings'), which had no seats.
Bottomry(noun) a contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully.