Qualitative research design is continually evolving. It is not only more established in disciplines beyond the traditional social sciences in which it is a standard choice, but also just as impacted by the changes in what data, technologies, and approaches researchers are using. This Handbook takes readers through the foundational theories, functions, strategies, and approaches to qualitative research design, before showcasing how it negotiates different data and research environments and produces credible, actionable impact beyond the study.
Containing contributions from over 90 top scholars from a range of social science disciplines, this Handbook is not just an anthology of different qualitative research designs and how/when to use them; it is a complete exploration of how and why these designs are shaped and how, why, and into what they are evolving. This is a valuable resource for Master’s and Ph D level students, faculty members, and researchers across a wide range of disciplines such as health, nursing, psychology, social work, sociology, and education.
Volume One:
Part I: Concepts of Designing Designs in Qualitative Research
Part 2: Theories and Epistemological Contexts of Designing Qualitative Research
Part 3: Elements of Designing Qualitative Research
Part 4: Basic Designs and Research Strategies in Qualitative Research
Part 5: Mixing Methods in Designing Qualitative Research
Volume Two:
Part 6: Designing Qualitative Research for Specific Kinds of Data
Part 7: Designing Qualitative Online and Multimodal Research
Part 8: Designing Qualitative Research for Specific Groups and Areas
Part 9: Designing Qualitative Research in Disciplinary Fields
Part 10: Designing Qualitative Research for Impact
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Volume 1: Basics of Designing Qualitative Research: Concepts, Theories, and Elements
Chapter 1: Setting the Agenda – Roles of Design(ing) in Qualitative Research – Uwe Flick
Part 1: Concepts of Designing Designs in Qualitative Research
Part 1 Introduction – Uwe Flick
Chapter 2: Reflexive Design in Qualitative Research – Mats Alvesson, Jörgen Sandberg, and Katja Einola
Chapter 3: Interactive Approaches to Qualitative Research Design – Joseph A. Maxwell
Chapter 4: Emergent Design – Martyn Hammersley
Chapter 5: Choosing a Research Design for Qualitative Research – A Ferris Wheel of Approaches – Karen M. Staller & Yun Chen
Part 2: Theories and Epistemological Contexts of Designing Qualitative Research
Part 2 Introduction – Uwe Flick
Chapter 6: Constructionism and Qualitative Research Design – Jonathan Potter & Jessica Robles
Chapter 7: Phenomenology: Alfred Schutz’s Structures of the Life-world and their Implications – Thomas S. Eberle
Chapter 8: Care-ful Research: Sensibilities from STS – John Law & Wen-yuan Lin
Chapter 9: Critical Realism as a Stance for Designing Qualitative Research – Joseph A. Maxwell
Chapter 10: Ontologies of Relation and Difference in ‘Research designs’ – Mirka Koro, David Lee Carlson, Marina Basu, & Keti Tsotniashuili
Chapter 11: Feminist Research: Inequality, Social Change and Intersectionality – Alexandra J Hawkey & Jane M Ussher
Chapter 12: Queer(ing) Methodologies – Tommaso M. Milani & Rodrigo Borba
Chapter 13: Decolonising Qualitative Research Design – Helen Moewaka Barnes & Tim Mc Creanor
Chapter 14: Qualitative Research within a Post-colonial Indigenous Paradigm – Bagele Chilisa & Keneilwe Phatshwane
Part 3: Elements of Designing Qualitative Research
Part 3 Introduction – Uwe Flick
Chapter 15: Abduction as a Guiding Principle in Qualitative Research Design – Robert Thornberg
Chapter 16: Developing Research Questions: The Social Lives of Ideas, Interests and Questions – Tim Rapley
Chapter 17: Selecting a Sample – Michael Meyer & Wolfgang Mayrhofer
Chapter 18: Creative with Resources in Qualitative Research – Amarante Swift
Chapter 19: Role and Impact of CAQDAS Software for Designs in Qualitative Research – Susanne Friese
Chapter 20: Generalization as an Issue for Qualitative Research Design – Joseph A. Maxwell
Chapter 21: The Impact of Funding on Ways Qualitative Research is Thought About and Designed – Julianne Cheek
Chapter 22: Ethical Entanglements: Conceptualizing ‘Research Purposes/Design In the Contemporary Political World’ – Gaile S. Cannella
Chapter 23: The Fallacy of Rigor: Examining Checklist Criteria as an Indicator of Quality – Janice M. Morse
Part 4: Basic Designs and Research Strategies in Qualitative Research
Part 4 Introduction – Uwe Flick
Chapter 24: Designing Case Studies – Malcolm Tight
Chapter 25: Qualitative Longitudinal Design: Time, Change, Interpretive Practices – Karen Henwood & Fiona Shirani
Chapter 26: Qualitative Research Design across Different Cultural Communities – Carolin Demuth & Alessandra Fasulo
Chapter 27: Designing Grounded Theory Studies – Robert Thornberg & Elaine Keane
Chapter 28: Designing Ethnographies – Marie Buscatto
Chapter 29: Designing Research for Naturally Occurring Data – Jonathan Potter & Alexa Hepburn
Chapter 30: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis – Elliott M. Hoey
Chapter 31: Arts-based Research in the Social Sciences – Briege Casey & Michael Murray
Chapter 32: Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis – Louise Corti
Chapter 33: Meta-analysis in Qualitative Research: A Descriptive-Interpretative Approach – Ladislav Timulak & Mary Creaner
Part 5: Mixing Methods in Designing Qualitative Research
Part 5 Introduction – Uwe Flick
Chapter 34: Pluralisms in Qualitative Research Design – Kerry Chamberlain
Chapter 35: Psychosocial Methodologies – David W. Jones
Chapter 36: Designing for Multimodal Data and Mixed Methods within a Qualitative Framework – Pat Bazeley
Chapter 37: Mixed Methods Research Designs in Qualitatively-driven Research – Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Chapter 38: The Power of Qualitative Research in Mixed Methods Research Designs – Julianne Cheek & Janice M. Morse
Chapter 39: Revitalizing Triangulation as a Framework for Designing Multi-perspective Qualitative Research – Uwe Flick
Volume 2: Practices of Designing Qualitative Research: Data, Fields and Impact
Part 6: Designing Qualitative Research for Specific Kinds of Data
Part 6 Introduction – Uwe Flick
Chapter 40: Designing Qualitative Research Using Interview Data – Kathryn Roulston & Sean N. Halpin
Chapter 41: Designing Focus Groups – Sabine Caillaud, Nikos Kalampalikis, & Marjolaine Doumergue
Chapter 42: Designing for Narratives and Stories – Asta Rau & Jan K. Coetzee
Chapter 43: Designing for Observation – David Wästerfors
Chapter 44: Designing Qualitative Research for Working with Visual Data: Insights from Psychology – Katherine Johnson & Paula Reavey
Chapter 45: Working with Video Data – Lorenza Mondada
Chapter 46: Designing for the Ethnographic Study of Documents – Katarina Jacobsson
Chapter 47: Designing Qualitative Research Using ′Material Methods′ – Researching with Objects/Things – Sophie Woodward
Chapter 48: A Language-First Approach to Health Research; Sociolinguistic Ethnography in Hospital Settings – Polina Mesinioti, Jo Angouri, & Chris Turner
Part 7: Designing Qualitative Online and Multimodal Research
Part 7 Introduction – Uwe Flick
Chapter 49: Designing Qualitative Research Using online Newspaper Comments – Jo Anne Meredith, Emma Richardson, Alexandra Kent, & K.M. Budds
Chapter 50: Digital and no Digital: Researching Digital Practices as Trans-situated Activities in Everyday Later Life – Roser Beneito-Montagut
Chapter 51: Designing Qualitative Research for Working with Facebook Data – Uta Russmann
Chapter 52: A Facebook Discourse-oriented Ethnography of Greek Jewish Heritage – Salomi Boukala & Dimitris Serafis
Chapter 53: Designing Qualitative Discourse Analysis Research with Twitter – Samuel Bennett
Chapter 54: Designing Qualitative Research for Working with Blogs as Data – Elena Wilson & Nicole Johnson
Chapter 55: Designing Qualitative Research with Instagram – Kerry Chamberlain & Meghan Lynch
Chapter 56: Designing Qualitative Research for Working with Social Media ′Big′ Datasets – Mike Thelwall
Part 8: Designing Qualitative Research for Specific Groups and Areas
Part 8 Introduction – Uwe Flick
Chapter 57: Designing Qualitative Research with the Elderly – Irina Catrinel Cracium
Chapter 58: Designing Qualitative Research with Children – Bronwyn Davies
Chapter 59: Physical Culture and Embodied Ethnography – Michael D. Giardina & Michele K. Donnelly
Chapter 60: Challenges in Designing Qualitative Research when Working with and for Hard-to-Reach Groups – Kerry Chamberlain & Darrin Hodgetts
Chapter 61: Intersecting Identities in Health Care Research – Jo Angouri, Polina Mesinioti, Rumaisa Banatwalla, & Georgios K Dimitriadis
Chapter 62: Researching Institutions after the Discursive Turn – Amelie Kutter & Federico Masson
Chapter 63: Designing Qualitative Research for Studies in Asia: Decentering Research Practices for Local Norms of Relevance – John L. Adamson
Chapter 64: Designing Qualitative Research for Studies in Latin America – Nicolás Schöngut-Grollmus & María-Alejandra Energici
Part 9: Designing Qualitative Research in Disciplinary Fields
Part 9 Introduction – Uwe Flick
Chapter 65: Designing Qualitative Research for Studies in Education – Massimiliano Tarozzi
Chapter 66: Designing Qualitative Social Work Research – Jane F. Gilgun
Chapter 67: Designing Qualitative Research in Psychology – Sarah Riley & Kerry Chamberlain
Chapter 68: Unpacking Nursing′s Epistemological Foundations as a Basis for Applied Qualitative Design – Sally Thorne
Chapter 69: Designing Qualitative Research for Disability Rights Approaches – Hilary Stace, Kirsten Smiler, and Martin Sullivan
Part 10: Designing Qualitative Research for Impact
Part 10 Introduction – Uwe Flick
Chapter 70: Impact-Driven Qualitative Research and Evaluation – Michael Patton
Chapter 71: Reclaiming Qualitative Design for the Applied Disciplines – Sally Thorne
Chapter 72: Designing Qualitative and Mixed Methods Evaluations for Transformative Impact – Donna M. Mertens
Chapter 73: Designing Indigenous Qualitative Research for Policy Implementation – Fiona Cram
Chapter 74: Diversity, Ethics, and Transparency as Continuing Challenges in Designing Qualitative Research – Uwe Flick
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Uwe Flick is Senior Professor of Qualitative Research in Social Science and Education at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is a trained psychologist and sociologist and received his Ph D from the Freie Universität Berlin in 1988 and his Habilitation from the Technical University Berlin in 1994. He has been Professor of Qualitative Research at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany and at the University of Vienna, Austria. Previously, he was Adjunct Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Canada; a Lecturer in research methodology at the Freie Universität Berlin; a Reader and Assistant Professor in qualitative methods and evaluation at the Technical University Berlin; and Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Sociology at the Hannover Medical School. He has held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Cambridge University (UK), Memorial University of St John’s (Canada), University of Lisbon (Portugal), Institute of Higher Studies in Vienna, in Italy and Sweden, and the School of Psychology at Massey University, Auckland (New Zealand). His main research interests are qualitative methods, social representations in the fields of individual and public health, vulnerability in fields like youth homelessness or (forced) migration and chronical illness in everyday live. He is the editor of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design (2 Vols.; Sage 2022). The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis (Sage, 2014), The SAGE Qualitative Research Kit (Sage, 2nd edn, 2018), A Companion to Qualitative Research (Sage, 2004), Psychology of the Social (Cambridge University Press, 1998). His most recent publications are the seventh edition of An Introduction to Qualitative Research (Sage, 2023), Doing Grounded Theory (Sage, 2018), Doing Triangulation and Mixed Methods (Sage, 2018), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection (editor, Sage, 2018), the third edition of Introducing Research Methodology – Thinking Your Way through Your Research Project (Sage, 2020) and Doing Interview Research – The Essential How To Guide (Sage 2022). In 2019, Uwe Flick received the Lifetime Award in Qualitative Inquiry at the 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.