Books in the Routledge Advances in Research Methods series

Participatory Case Study Work shows academic co-researchers how to adapt and implement their methods so that data collection and analysis is authentically participatory.

This book addresses dilemmas that social researchers may face as a result of silences, neglected feelings, and blind-spots in their research, considering the ways in which omissions or silences may prove essential for developing new and interesting questions as well as comprehensive, responsive, and responsible research practices.

This book by an expert international academic team, presents theoretical views on social constructionist understandings of action research, as well as illustrative examples of action research practices within a wide range of sectors such as organizational learning, leadership development, education, mental health and health care.

Participatory Case Study Work shows academic co-researchers how to adapt and implement their methods so that data collection and analysis is authentically participatory.

Doing Research In and On the Digital aims to deliver on two fronts; first, by detailing how researchers are devising and applying innovative research methods for and within the digital sphere and secondly; by discussing the ethical challenges and issues implied and encountered in such approaches.

This book by an expert international academic team, presents theoretical views on social constructionist understandings of action research, as well as illustrative examples of action research practices within a wide range of sectors such as organizational learning, leadership development, education, mental health and health care.

This book covers a wide range of contemporary methods for researching social problems and connects these approaches to the broader substance and theories of social problems. Chapters follow a uniform structure, with each offering research examples and a broad description of the related method and its theoretical context.

This interdisciplinary collection provides a set of innovative and inventive approaches to the use of video as a research method. Building on the development of visual methods across the social sciences, it highlights a range of possibilities for making and working with video data, including video diaries, video go-alongs, time-lapse video, mobile devices, multi-angle video recording, video ethnography, and ethnographic documentary.

As an ethnographic method walking has a long history, but it has only recentlybegun to attract focused attention. This interdisciplinary collection provides a guided route through a variety of sensory walks, exploring the possibilities for conducting research on the move along the way. It highlights a range of possibilities for enfolding sound, smell,emotion, movement, and memory into geographical and sociological accounts,illustrating the sensuousness and the skill of walking as research practice.

Interviewing is one of the most common techniques used to conduct qualitative research in the social sciences and humanities. As a result of globalization, researchers increasingly conduct interviews cross-, inter- and intra-nationally. This raises important questions about how differences and sameness are understood and negotiated within the interview situation, as well as the power structures at play within qualitative research, and the role that reflexivity plays in mediating these.

This book explores how action research forms a valuable methodology for producing collaborative knowledge and action. It outlines the recent uptake of action research in policy analysis and transition research and develops a distinct and novel approach that is both critical and relational.

`Phenomenology¿ is now also used to denote an empirical form of qualitative research (PQR), especially in health, psychology and education. This book examines these methods closely, offering a detailed analysis of worked-through examples in three influential textbooks by Giorgi, van Manen, and Smith, Flowers and Larkin. Paley argues that the methods described in these texts are radically under-specified, and suggests alternatives to PQR as an approach to qualitative research, referring to Heideggerian alternatives to interviewing. This book also analyses, and aims to develop, the implicit theory of `meaning¿ found in PQR writings.

This edited collection demonstrates diverse ways qualitative researchers can meaningfully engage with and share community narratives. Innovative, multi-disciplinary methods and tools for data gathering, analysing and sharing narratives are featured. The book inspires researchers, practitioners and students in the arts, humanities, social sciences and cultural studies to embrace community narratives.

This book presents theoretical discussions and practical examples of Action Research from Scandinavia, Latin America and Africa, primarily dealing with how to combine nature conservation and management with local democratic community development, seeing the renewal of Commons as a way to transcend the present dichotomy between these two dimensions.