Completing a Qualitative Project

Janice M. Morse, PhD (Nurs), PhD (Anthro), FAAN is a professor and Presidential Endowed Chair at the University of Utah College of Nursing, and Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada., from 1991-1996, she also held a position as professor at The Pennsylvania State University. From 1997-2007, she was the founding Director and Scientific Director of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta, founding editor for the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and Editor of the Qual Press monograph series. She remains the founding editor for Qualitative Health Research, (now in Volume 2, Sage1), is currently editor for the monograph series Developing Qualitative Inquiry, and The Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry (Left Coast Press). Her research programs are in the areas of suffering and comforting, preventing patient falls, and developing qualitative methods. In 2011, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry, was an inaugural inductee into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame (2010), the 5th recipient of the Episteme Award (also Sigma Theta Tau). She received awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Newcastle (Australia) and Athabasca University (Canada). She is the author of 460 articles and chapters and 19 books on qualitative research methods, suffering, comforting and patient falls.

An excellent book which can be used to develop research skills among honours degree students and potential post graduate researchers.

• Recognizing the Power of Qualitative Research - Janice M MorseDIALOGUEOn Terminating a ProjectWriting It Up - Joyceen S BoyleDissecting the DissertationDIALOGUEWhat Do I Publish?The Politics of Publishing - Juliene G LipsonProtecting Participants′ ConfidentialityDIALOGUECoauthorshipPresenting Qualitative Research Up Close - Holly Skodol Wilson and Sally Ambler HutchinsonVisual Literacy in Poster PresentationsDIALOGUEOther Ways to Do ThingsMeaning through Form - Judy R NorrisAlternative Modes of Knowledge RepresentationDIALOGUEOn `Helping′ or Working with StudentsThe Art (and Science) of Critiquing Qualitative Research - Sally ThorneADVICEPublish or PerishStrategies for Overcoming the Rage of Rejection - Phyllis Noerager SternThe Case of the Qualitative ResearcherDIALOGUEThe Downside of Blind ReviewResponding to Criticism - Judith E HupceyDIALOGUEThe Application of TheoryConsidering Theory Derived from Qualitative Research - Janice M MorseDIALOGUEGeneralizabilityGeneralizability in Qualitative Research - Joy L JohnsonExcavating the DiscourseDIALOGUEOn Labeling a Research ProgramProgrammatic Qualitative Research - Margarete J SandelowskiOr, Appreciating the Importance of Gas Station PumpsDIALOGUEResearch ProgramsLinking Qualitative and Quantitative Research - Joan BottorffNew Avenues for Programmatic ResearchDIALOGUEOn InterventionClinical Utilization/Application of Qualitative Research - Janice Swanson, Roberta Durham and Judith AlbrightDIALOGUEOn PARParticipatory Action Research - Judith Wuest and Marilyn Merritt-GrayPractical Dilemmas and Emancipatory PossibilitiesBRAINSTORMINGSorting out Meta-AnalysisQualitative Meta-Analysis - Rita Schreiber, Dauna Crooks and Phyllis Noerager SternTHE DEAD DOG SECTIONExplaining MethodsThe Politicking of Research Results - Katharyn A MayDIALOGUEAs Hired GunsQualitative Research in Policy Development - Martha Ann CareyTHE DEAD DOG SECTIONWhat to Do When Stumped by the MediaPolicy as Forethought in Qualitative Research - Marjorie A MueckeA Paradigm From Developing Country Social Scientists