The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research

Patricia Leavy, PhD, is a leading researcher, acclaimed author, and public speaker. She has published more than twenty-five books, including Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches, Handbook of Arts-Based Research, Method Meets Art, The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship, and the novels Spark, Blue, American Circumstance, and Low-Fat Love. She is also series creator and editor for eight book series with Oxford University Press and Brill-Sense, including the ground-breaking Social Fictions series. She has blogged for The Creativity Post, The Huffington Post, Mogul, and We Are the Real Deal and is cofounder and co-editor-in-chief of Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal. She has received career awards from the New England Sociological Association, the American Creativity Association, the American Educational Research Association, the National Art EducationAssociation, and the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, and the State University of New York at New Paltz has established the "Patricia Leavy Award for Art and Social Justice."

This handbook is a comprehensive methodological resource intended for a wide readership and incorporates several enhancements to the first edition ..., including new chapters on "duoenthnography," team-based research, and teaching qualitative research, as well as updated references and examples. ... Anyone seeking practical information about conducting qualitative research would benefit from this work. The enhancements justify investing in this new edition.

• Preface 1. Introduction by the Editor: Patricia Leavy Part One: The Qualitative Tradition 2. Historical Overview of Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences: Svend Brinkmann, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, and Søren Kristiansen3. The History of Historical-Comparative Methods in Sociology: Chares Demetriou and Victor Roudometof4. The Centrality of Ethics in Qualitative Research: Anna Traianou Part Two: Approaches to Qualitative Research 5. Philosophical Approaches to Qualitative Research: Renée Spencer, Julia M. Pryce, and Jill Walsh6. Applied Interpretive Approaches: Sally E.Thorne7. The Grounded Theory Method: Antony Bryant8. Feminist Qualitative Research: Toward Transformation of Science and Social Justice: Maureen C. McHugh9. Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research: Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Peter Chua, and Dana Collins10. Decolonizing Research Practice: Indigenous Methodologies, Aboriginal Methods, and Knowledge/Knowing: Mike Evans, Adrian Miller, Peter Hutchinson, and Carlene Dingwall Part Three: Narrative Inquiry, Field Research, and Interview Methods 11. Practicing Narrative Inquiry II: Making Meanings Move: Arthur P. Bochnerand Andrew F. Herrmann12. Ethnography: Anthony Kwame Harrison13. Practicing Autoethnograhy and Living the Autoethnographic Life: Carolyn Ellis and Tony E. Adams14. Duoethnography: A Polytheoretical Approach to (Re)Storing, (Re)Storying the Meanings that One Give: Joe Norris and Rick Sawyer15. Unstructured and Semi-Structured Interviewing: Svend Brinkmann16. Oral History Interviewing: With Purpose and Critical Awareness: Valerie J. Janesick17. Focus Group Research: Retrospect and Prospect: George Kamberelis and Greg Dimitriadis18. Museum Studies: Erica L. Tucker Part Four: Text, Arts-Based, and Internet Methods 19. Content Analysis: Lindsay Prior20. Photography as a Research Method: Gunilla Holm21. Arts-Based Research Practice: Merging Social Research and the Creative Arts: Gioia Chilton and Patricia Leavy22. Qualitative Approaches in Internet-Mediated Research: Opportunities, Issues, Possibilities: Claire Hewson Part Five: Multi-Method, Mixed Methods, and Participatory Designs 23. Case Study Research: In-Depth Understanding in Context: Helen Simons24. Program Evaluation: Paul R.Brandon and Anna L. Ah Sam25. Community-Based Research: A Grass-Roots and Social Justice Orientation to Inquiry: Margaret Boyd 26. Complex Teams and Qualitative Research: Judith Davidson 27. Qualitative Disaster Research: DeeDee M. Bennett, Mark R. Landahl, Brenda D.Phillips28. Conducting Mixed Methods Research: Using Dialectical Pluralism and Social Psychological Strategies: Susan A. Tucker, R. Burke Johnson, Tony Onwuegbuzie, and Marjorie L. Icenogle Part Six: Analysis and Interpretation 29. Qualitative Data Analysis Strategies: Johnny Saldaña30. Computer-Assisted Analysis of Qualitative Research: Christina Silver and Ann F. Lewins31. Interpretation Strategies in Qualitative Research: What, Why, How: Allen Trent and Jeasik Cho Part Seven: Representation and Evaluation 32. Writing Up Qualitative Research: Jane F.Gilgun33. Transforming Field Notes into Text: Jessica Smartt Gullion34. Creative Approaches to Writing: Sandra L. Faulkner and Sheila Squillante35. Scripting Ethnodrama: Joe Salvatore36. Write-Reach-Repeat: The Role and Rise of Public Intellectualism in Qualitative Research: Robin M. Boylorn37. Evaluating Qualitative Research 2.0: Jeasik Cho and Allen Trent Part Eight: Conclusion: Politics, Pedagogy, and the Public 38. The Politics of Research: Michael D. Giardina and Joshua I. Newman39. Superheroes and Superpowers: Contemplative, Creative, and De/Colonial Approaches to Teaching Qualitative Research: Kakali Bhattacharya40. A Changing Terrain: Qualitative Research in the Age of Transdisciplinarity and Public Scholarship: Patricia Leavy