Kahryn Hughes – författare

A comprehensive guide to carrying out Qualitative Secondary Analysis (QSA) that brings together expert advice and professional insight from leading researchers who have developed innovative theories and methods of QSA.

 

Exploring crucial components of research and analysis—such as where to find resources, how to search within a resource, and working with both paper archives and non-textual data—each chapter offers insightful case studies, links to further reading and applied helpful hints and tips to help effectively apply these innovations to further the reader’s own research.

 

A must read for Social Science students, early career researchers and researchers new to the field of QSA, this text will help readers through every aspect of a research process using QSA, from application to implications.

A comprehensive guide to carrying out Qualitative Secondary Analysis (QSA) that brings together expert advice and professional insight from leading researchers who have developed innovative theories and methods of QSA.

 

Exploring crucial components of research and analysis—such as where to find resources, how to search within a resource, and working with both paper archives and non-textual data—each chapter offers insightful case studies, links to further reading and applied helpful hints and tips to help effectively apply these innovations to further the reader’s own research.

 

A must read for Social Science students, early career researchers and researchers new to the field of QSA, this text will help readers through every aspect of a research process using QSA, from application to implications.

Research rarely goes to plan.Rather than presenting tidy methods and seamless projects, Unexpected Turns in Social Research explores what happens when researchers meet the inherent unpredictability of social life—where setbacks, mistakes, and dilemmas are not failures, but part of every research encounter.Drawing on candid accounts from experienced researchers across a wide range of fields, the book brings together 10 chapter-length reflections and 7 rich case studies. These contributions explore the challenges that actually arise in research practice: ethical dilemmas that surface mid-project, participants who resist expected roles, field sites that shift over time, data that demand theoretical rethinking, and moments that feel risky, uncomfortable, or unsettling.Rather than treating these disruptions as problems to fix or hide, this book shows how they can spark methodological innovation, fresh theoretical insight, and more honest reflection on what researchers really do. Written in a readable and accessible style, Unexpected Turns in Social Research is a current and relevant resource for anyone navigating research that looks far messier than textbook examples — but far closer to reality.

Research rarely goes to plan.Rather than presenting tidy methods and seamless projects, Unexpected Turns in Social Research explores what happens when researchers meet the inherent unpredictability of social life—where setbacks, mistakes, and dilemmas are not failures, but part of every research encounter.Drawing on candid accounts from experienced researchers across a wide range of fields, the book brings together 10 chapter-length reflections and 7 rich case studies. These contributions explore the challenges that actually arise in research practice: ethical dilemmas that surface mid-project, participants who resist expected roles, field sites that shift over time, data that demand theoretical rethinking, and moments that feel risky, uncomfortable, or unsettling.Rather than treating these disruptions as problems to fix or hide, this book shows how they can spark methodological innovation, fresh theoretical insight, and more honest reflection on what researchers really do. Written in a readable and accessible style, Unexpected Turns in Social Research is a current and relevant resource for anyone navigating research that looks far messier than textbook examples — but far closer to reality.

Through qualitative secondary analysis of four linked datasets from research within low-income families over a twenty-year period, Hughes and Tarrant argue that there is much to be gained from examining both men’s accounts of family and poverty across the lifecourse and the accounts of men experiencing family poverty.