With a new semester, many of us are revising our courses, and looking for new teaching ideas. Published by Routledge, The Handbook of Teaching Qualitative and Mixed Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructors, edited by Alissa Ruth, Amber Wutich, and H. Russell Bernard provides a rich array of resources for instructors of research methods. … Continue reading A new resource for teaching qualitative research
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Designing qualitative studies
I’m delighted to share the new book that my co-authors and I have just published. Qualitative research design and methods: An introduction (deMarrais et al., 2024) is addressed to novice researchers who are designing and conducting a first qualitative research study. The book is organized in three parts. Part 1 encompasses getting started with theory … Continue reading Designing qualitative studies
The SAGE handbook of qualitative research
A copy of the 6th edition of the SAGE Handbook of qualitative research (Denzin et al., 2024) arrived in my mailbox recently. And just like earlier editions, it is big and heavy! Divided into five parts, with 34 chapters, and spanning over 700 pages, the volume provides updated and new chapters. Parts include: Locating the … Continue reading The SAGE handbook of qualitative research
Getting creative with interview methods
Although qualitative interviews are massively used in qualitative studies all over the world, there is enormous variation in how interviews are conducted, and by what mode. Qualitative researchers have been exceptionally creative in how they elicit verbal accounts from participants of research studies. For example, here are some of the numerous descriptors used in relation … Continue reading Getting creative with interview methods
Resources for teaching feminist theory
For anyone revising syllabi for next semester, the journal Signs provides lots of resources for teaching feminist theory and #feminist resistance. The Feminist Public Intellectuals Project includes: Short takes -- discussions of current books on gender, feminism, and sexuality. Feminist frictions -- essays on current concepts and controversies; and Ask a feminist -- a podcast … Continue reading Resources for teaching feminist theory
A beginner’s guide to conducting archival research
Archives preserve records from what has gone before to ensure accountability among leaders, to record what has happened in the past, and to preserve people's cultural identities and heritage. In our book Exploring the archives: A beginner’s guide for qualitative researchers (2021), Kathleen deMarrais and I introduce qualitative researchers to archival research. We discuss why … Continue reading A beginner’s guide to conducting archival research
Call for proposals: Critical Autoethnography 2020
Where: Brisbane, Australia When: 7-9th July 2020 “We need stories (and theories) that are just big enough to gather up the complexities and keep the edges open and greedy for surprising new and old connections” writes Haraway (2015, p. 160) and in 2020, the CAE conference is inspired by Haraway’s catch cry “We are all … Continue reading Call for proposals: Critical Autoethnography 2020
The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics
With all the handbooks being published these days, it’s hard to keep up. Since I teach a course on research ethics, I’ve recently taken delivery of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics (Iphofen & Tolich, 2018). I have yet to read this text in full, but in this blogpost, I’ll provide an overview of … Continue reading The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics
Writing up qualitative research in ways that readers want to read
What keeps readers of academic writing engaged? We have all likely yawned our way through research reports, or worse — stopped reading altogether. Since time is limited and attention spans are getting shorter, academic writers must be able to attract and retain a hold on their readers’ attention if their work has to have any … Continue reading Writing up qualitative research in ways that readers want to read
New books on qualitative research
A second edition of the Sage Qualitative Research Kit, edited by German scholar, Uwe Flick, was published in 2018. Comprised of 10 short volumes, the kit aims to provide a brief introduction to qualitative research. In his introduction to the series, Flick talks about the organization as follows. Although the series could be read in … Continue reading New books on qualitative research
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