Books in the Qualitative Essentials series

This volume identifies relevant ethical principles that can guide novice researchers through the research process with the necessary wisdom and insight to shape a project in sound, meaningful, and thoughtful ways.

This collection of original articles, a companion to the authors' Participatory Visual and Digital Methods, illustrates how a variety of innovative techniques are being used in various field projects across disciplines and geographic locations.

This brief, practical guide shows you how to identify the right journal or book publisher for your work and guides you through the publications process, from the abstract through writing, production, and marketing.

This collection of original articles, a companion to the authors' Participatory Visual and Digital Methods, illustrates how a variety of innovative techniques are being used in various field projects across disciplines and geographic locations.

Vera Caine and Judy Mill outline the basic steps and issues in the community-based research process. Using examples from numerous projects from around the world, they discuss topics from collaboratively designing and conducting the research with community members, to building community capacity and negotiating complicated questions of researcher control and ethics.

A concise and helpful guide through the a qualitative doctorate program, from selecting a research topic through completing and publishing a dissertation.

Containing examples from multiple disciplines, student exercises, and key points to remember, this guide provides a comprehensive overview to qualitative methods for students. It features chapters that cover the essentials of theory building, research design, methods, data collection and analysis, writing, ethics, rigor and proposal writing.

In this volume, Carey and Asbury provide a brief, systematic introduction to developing, implementing, and analyzing focus groups in research projects.

Traditional qualitative interviews typically involve a single subject; interviews of dyads rarely appear outside marketing research and family studies. Experienced qualitative researcher David Morgan's brief guide to dyadic interviewing provides readers with a road map to expand this technique to many other settings.

A brief, useful guide to Glaserian grounded theory methods for the novice.

Field research can consist of anything from trekking across the globe to study people in exotic cultural setting to strapping on your running shoes and going down the street to a local market. This book provides guidance to researchers on developing relationships in their field research.

Providing the key principles and methods needed to conduct a transdisciplinary study, this brief, introductory guide also offers numerous examples from multiple research sectors to show its effectiveness.

A brief, accessible guide for students and novice researchers to the principles and practices of qualitative interviewing, both formal and unstructured.

Observation is one of the foundational methods of qualitative inquiry - but only if it is conducted in a systematic fashion that allows for the careful recording of data and the consistent retrieval of those data for purposes of analysis. This book features a brief how-to guide to conducting observations in naturalistic settings.