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.
1. the lowest, deepest, or farthest removed part of a thing: the bottom of a hill. 2. the least important or successful position: the bottom of a class. 3. the ground underneath a sea, lake, or river.