Hello everyone, I'm doing my first delve into the world of qualitative research after having only done quantitative research in the past. Are there any texts or resources out there that you can recommend for someone learning qualitative for the first time?
The following publications should be helpful:
- Black, N. (1994) Editorial: Why we need qualitative research, Journal of epidemiology and community health, 48, 5, pp. 425-426.
- Blank, G. (2004) Teaching qualitative data analysis to graduate students, Social Science Computer Review, 22, 2, pp. 187-196.
- Crescentini, A. and Mainardi, G. (2009) Qualitative research articles: guidelines, suggestions and needs, Journal of Workplace Learning, 21, 5, pp. 431-439.
- Creswell, J. W. (2012) Education Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research. 4th edn. Boston: Pearson Education Inc.
- Creswell, J. W. (2014) Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. 4th edn. California: SAGE Publications, Inc.
- Jandagh, G. and Zarei Matin, H. (2010) Application of qualitative research in management (why, when and how), Iranian Journal of Management Studies, 3, 3, pp. 59-74.
- Magilvy, J. K. and Thomas, E. (2009) A first qualitative project: Qualitative descriptive design for novice researchers, Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing, 14, 4, pp. 298-300.
- Malterud, K. (2001) Qualitative research: standards, challenges, and guidelines, The lancet, 358, 9280, pp. 483-488.
- Munck, G. L. (1998) Canons of Research Design in Qualitative Analysis, Studies in Comparative International Development, 33, 3, pp. 18-45.
- Yin, R. K. (2011) Qualitative Research from Start to Finish. New York: USA: The Guilford Press.
Furthermore, please refer to the following papers for the illustration/comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of qualitative research:
- Anderson, C. (2010) Presenting and Evaluating Qualitative Research, American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 74, 8, pp. 1-7.
- Johnson, R. B. and Onwuegbuzie, A. J. (2004) Mixed Methods Research: A Research Paradigm Whose Time Has Come, Educational Researcher, 33, 7, pp. 14-26.
- Libarkin, J. C. and Kurdziel, J. P. (2002) Research Methodologies in Science Education: The Qualitative-Quantitative Debate, Journal of Geoscience Education, 50, 1, pp. 78-86.
- Skinner, D., Tagg, C. and Holloway, J. (2000) Managers and research: The pros and cons of qualitative approaches, Management Learning, 31, 2, pp. 163-179.
Texas A&M is lucky to have Yvonna Lincoln as a Distinguished Professor. Dr. Lincoln together with Dr. Egon Guba wrote the seminal Naturalistic Inquiry (cited over 70k times). The book is the Bible of Qual. research. Be sure to look up contemporary digital ways to code your data though!
I always find these two books helpful whenever I'm doing a qualitative study. I hope they'll good for your case too.
1. Doing qualitative research: the craft of naturalistic inquiry. (Beuving et al., 2015)
2. Qualitative Research: An introduction to methods and design. (Lapan et al., 2011)
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04219/nsf04219.pdf
https://www.nsf.gov/sbe/ses/soc/ISSQR_workshop_rpt.pdf
Check out these two from the National Science Foundation workshop. I find that they have a more practical approach especially coming from a quantitative background myself.
Uwe Flick offer the broadest introduction I know in one volume: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/an-introduction-to-qualitative-research/book240398
Strauss and Corbin's Basics of Qualitative Research is a good primer.
Jake - email me from your new address, I have resources I can send.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1573&context=tqr
Hi, Jake:
I suggest you this book:
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/qualitative-inquiry-and-research-design/book246896
Regards!
How about conjoint analysis which use data analysis to study qualitative subject ?
Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design by John Creswell can also help
Dear Jake,
For general introduction to research methods, epistemological and ontological differences of research approaches, I suggest:
Gray, D. E. (2013). Doing research in the real world. Sage.
...and for qualitative research:
Yin, R. K. (2015). Qualitative research from start to finish. Guilford Publications.
Flick, U. (2018). An introduction to qualitative research. Sage Publications Limited.
Best,
Solmaz
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