Creative Teamwork

Pat Armstrong, PhD, MA, is Professor of Sociology and of Women's Studies at York University, Toronto. She held a Canada Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institute of Health Research Chair in Health Services, is a Distinguished Research Professor in Sociology and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Focusing on the fields of social policy, of women, work, feminist theory and the health and social services, she has published widely, co-authoring more than a dozen books and co-editing another dozen. For over a decade, she was Chair of Women and Health Care Reform, a group funded by Health Canada, Her current research is focused on reimagining long-term residential care, a Major Collaborative Research Project funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.Ruth Lowndes, DPhil, MN, is currently engaged full time in the "Re-magining Long-term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices" MCRI. Ruth's doctoral ethnographical study used observation and interviewing, methods which extend into this current project. She is also registered with the College of Nurses of Ontario and is a Certified Diabetes Educator.

[The book] contains promising elements of practice often neglected by traditional quantitative research. This spurs us toward higher valuing of qualitative study and rethinking the need for balance in quantitative assessment and service quality.

• Introduction Pat ArmstrongChapter 1: Theory Matters Pat Armstrong and Hugh ArmstrongChapter 2: Administrative Matters Pat Armstrong and Wendy WintersChapter 3: Ethics as Teamwork Susan BraedleyChapter 4: Organizing Site Visits: Methodological Considerations Martha MacDonaldChapter 5: Feminist Political Economy and Flexible Team Interviewing Tamara Daly and Ruth LowndesChapter 6: Fieldnotes: Individual Versus Team-Based Rapid Ethnography Ruth Lowndes, Palle Storm, and Marta SzebehelyChapter 7: Different Eyes: An RN/Sociologist and an Historian Invite You on a Tour of Our Fieldnotes Jacqueline Choiniere and James StruthersChapter 8: New to Long-Term Residential Care: Using Reflexivity to Navigate Research Tensions as Student Novice Ethnographers Krystal Kehoe MacLeod, Suzanne Day, and Sandra SmeleChapter 9: Snap-Happy? The Promise and Problems of Photovoice Ruth Lowndes and Susan BraedleyChapter 10: Telling Stories: Literary Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Team Research Sally Chivers and Derek Newman-StilleChapter 11: Rapid Ethnography and a Knowledge Translation Project: Benefits from Bookettes Donna Baines and Rachel GnanayuthamChapter 12: Threading the Strands: Tensions and Possibilities of Team-Based Rapid Ethnography Pat Armstrong