Tim May 
Qualitative Research in Action [EPUB ebook] 

Introduction
Transformation in Principles and Practice
PART ONE: PUTTING THE PRACTICE INTO THEORY
Institutional Ethnography – Dorothy E Smith
Critical Realist Ethnography – Sam Porter
Framing the Rational in Fieldwork – Peter K Manning
Analysing Interaction – Christian Heath and Jon Hindmarsh
Video, Ethnography and Situated Conduct
PART TWO: GENERALIZATION, INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS
Generalization in Interpretive Research – Malcolm Williams
Representation, Responsibilty and Reliability in Participant-Observation – Mart[ac]in S[ac]anchez-Jankowski
Automating the Ineffable – Nigel G Fielding
Qualitative Software and the Meaning of Qualitative Research
Subjectivity and Qualitative Method – Valeria Walkerdine, Helen Lucey and June Melody
PART THREE: CHOICES IN CONTEXT
Observation and Interviewing – Kathleen Gerson and Ruth Horowitz
Options and Choices in Qualitative Research
Qualitative Interviewing – Jennifer Mason
Asking, Listening and Interpreting
Narrative in Social Research – Steph Lawler
PART FOUR: POWER, PARTICIPATION AND EXPERTISE
Engagement and Evaluation in Qualitative Inquiry – Linda Mc Kie
Negotiating Power and Expertise in the Field – Lynne Haney
On Relations between Black Female Researcher and Participants – Tracey Reynolds
PART FIVE: REFLEXIVITY, THE SELF AND POSITIONING
Ethnography and the Self – Amanda Coffey
Reflections and Representations
Reflexivity and the Politics of Qualitative Research – Lisa Adkins
Techniques for Telling the Reflexive Self – Beverley Skeggs
Emotions, Fieldwork and Professional Lives – Sherryl Kleinman

Tim May originally trained and worked as an agricultural engineer. After his Ph D (1990), he was appointed to a lectureship at Plymouth (1989-95) and then moved to the University of Durham (1995-99) and was appointed at Salford in 1999. He became Director of the Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures in 2001. He is currently Professor of Social Science Methodology and Director of Research at the Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield. He has held research grants from many sources including: ESRC; EPSRC; AHRC; Mistra (Swedish Environmental Research Foundation; Regional Development Agencies; Core Cities Group; Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Higher Education Funding Council; Local Government Management Board; Economic and Social Research Council; Manchester City Council; the CONTACT group of the four Greater Manchester Universities and the NHS. In addition to the books and journals listed below, Tim May has contributed chapters to the following publications:  May, T. and Perry, B. 2013 ‘Reflexivity and Data Analysis’. In Flick, U. (ed). Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis. London: SAGE. May, T. 2013 ‘Reflexivity’. In Kaldis, B. (ed). Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. London: SAGE. May, T. and Williams, M. 2010 ‘Commitment and Investigation in Knowing the Social World’. In Olsen, W. (ed). Realist Methodology, Volume 1: Practical Realist Ontology. London: SAGE. May, T. and Powell, J. 2007 ‘Michel Foucault’. In Edwards, T. (ed). Cultural Theory: Classical and Contemporary Positions. London: SAGE.May, T 2006 ‘Critical Theory’. In Booth, C. and Harrington, J (eds). Developing Business Knowledge. UWE/ SAGE. May, T. 2005 ‘Reflexivity and Sociological Practice’. In Williams, M. (ed). The Philosophical Foundations of Social Research, Volume 3: Social Reality and the Social Context of Social Research. London: SAGE. May, T. 2004 ‘Poststructuralism’, ‘Critical Theory’, ‘Postempiricism’. In Bryman, A., Lewis-Beck, M. and Futing Liao, T. (eds). Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE.May, T. 2002 ‘The Discontented Epoch: Freedom and Security in Bauman’s Postmodernity′. In Beilharz, P. (ed). Zygmunt Bauman: 4 Volumes. Volume 3, ‘The Postmodern’. London: SAGE.