Covering the entire research process – from understanding theory to writing up your project – this book provides you with an easy-to-follow introduction to qualitative methods in nursing and healthcare.
It offers straightforward guidance on key issues such as ethics and equips you with practical tools for approaching steps like searching and reviewing the literature. It also:
- Provides a clear historical overview of nursing and healthcare research, helping you deepen your understanding of the field
- Shows you how to use literature to inform your choice of a research topic and research question
- Helps you develop a critical approach to your own thinking and practice.
Grounded in numerous real-world examples that offer insight into best practice and how to overcome potential pitfalls, this book helps you develop your research skills and use qualitative methods with confidence.
Visit https://study.sagepub.com/dingwallandstaniland to watch author-hosted video introductions to each chapter, exclusive videos from the SAGE Research Methods collection and a variety of research-focused You Tube videos to support your learning.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: What is research and why does it matter?Chapter 2: Theory and methodology
Chapter 3: Creating a project
Chapter 4: Reviewing literature
Chapter 5: Doing the right thing – ethics in qualitative research
Chapter 6: Observing people
Chapter 7: Interviewing people
Chapter 8: Analysing documents and artefacts
Chapter 9: What do you do with your data?
Chapter 10: Writing your dissertation
Über den Autor
Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist through Dingwall Enterprises Ltd and part-time Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. He draws on more than forty years’ experience as an academic researcher studying health care, legal services, and science and technology policy at the Universities of Aberdeen, Oxford and Nottingham. Over that time, he has held grants and contracts worth more than £7 million (at 2017 prices) in total from the Leverhulme and Wellcome Trusts, ESRC, NERC, MRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, the EU, the UK Department of Health and various NHS/NIHR programmes, the Ministry of Justice, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Food Standards Agency. These have resulted in 30 books and more than 100 scientific papers. Robert Dingwall is also an experienced manager: he served for five years as head of a large social science department and founded and directed what was one of Europe’s leading research institutes in science and technology studies for 12 years. Robert has been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences since 2002 and an Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health since 2014. He was awarded the 2019 Prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community by the Socio-Legal Studies Association.Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber
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