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- English
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Doing Qualitative Research
About this book
Need practical advice on how to do your first qualitative research project? This book will guide you through each step of the research process: from brainstorming ideas and working with your supervisor to navigating the field to writing up your results.
Driven by examples from other students' projects, the book features discussions on translating social problems into research topics, collecting data in the wake of a pandemic, and guidance from Qualitative Data Analysis Software expert Christian Schmieder to help you summarise, categorise, and review qualitative data. A new chapter on how much data you need answers the age-old question: 'how many interviews or case studies are enough?'
It also includes:
- Articles and websites to build your bibliography
- Questions to test your knowledge
- Videos from world-leading qualitative experts
- Activities to dig deeper into key concepts and think critically about research
- Lessons-learned discussions with other researchers
- Exercises to help you choose the right path for your project.
Key features: in addition to the online Silverman Workshops, the book includes top tips, end-of-chapter checklists to test your understanding, and annotated further reading so you can develop your knowledge further.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- About the Author
- About the Contributor
- Preface to the Sixth Edition
- Discover Your Field Guide: In-text Features and Online Workshops from David Silverman
- Part I Introduction
- One How to Use This Book
- Two What You Can (and Can’t) Do with Qualitative Research
- Three Focusing a Research Project
- Part II Starting Out and Project Foundations
- Four Formulating a Research Question
- Five Ethical Research
- Six Research Design
- Seven Using Theories
- Eight Choosing a Methodology
- Nine Writing a Research Proposal
- Part III Getting Support
- Ten Making Good Use of Your Supervisor
- Eleven Getting Feedback
- Part IV Collecting and Analysing Your Data
- Twelve How Much Data Do You Need?
- Thirteen Collecting Your Data
- Fourteen Developing Data Analysis
- Fifteen Using Qualitative Data Analysis Software: An Introduction
- Sixteen Quality in Qualitative Research
- Seventeen Effective Qualitative Research
- Part V Writing Up Your Research
- Eighteen What Counts as ‘Originality’?
- Nineteen Audiences
- Twenty The First Few Pages
- Twenty One The Literature Review Chapter
- Twenty Two The Methodology Chapter
- Twenty Three Writing Your Data Chapters
- Twenty Four Your Concluding Chapter
- Part VI The Aftermath
- Twenty Five Managing an Oral Examination
- Twenty Six Getting Published
- Appendix: Transcription Symbols
- Glossary
- References
- Author index
- Subject Index