The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design

Qualitative research design is continually evolving. It is not only more established in disciplines beyond the traditional social sciences in which it is a standard choice, but also just as impacted by the changes in what data, technologies, and approaches researchers are using. This Handbook takes readers through the foundational theories, functions, strategies, and approaches to qualitative research design, before showcasing how it negotiates different data and research environments and produces credible, actionable impact beyond the study. Containing contributions from over 90 top scholars from a range of social science disciplines, this Handbook is not just an anthology of different qualitative research designs and how/when to use them; it is a complete exploration of how and why these designs are shaped and how, why, and into what they are evolving. This is a valuable resource for Master’s and PhD level students, faculty members, and researchers across a wide range of disciplines such as health, nursing, psychology, social work, sociology, and education. Volume One: Part I: Concepts of Designing Designs in Qualitative Research Part 2: Theories and Epistemological Contexts of Designing Qualitative Research Part 3: Elements of Designing Qualitative Research Part 4: Basic Designs and Research Strategies in Qualitative Research Part 5: Mixing Methods in Designing Qualitative Research Volume Two: Part 6: Designing Qualitative Research for Specific Kinds of Data Part 7: Designing Qualitative Online and Multimodal Research Part 8: Designing Qualitative Research for Specific Groups and Areas Part 9: Designing Qualitative Research in Disciplinary Fields Part 10: Designing Qualitative Research for Impact

Table of Contents:
Volume 1: Basics of Designing Qualitative Research: Concepts, Theories, and Elements Chapter 1: Setting the Agenda - Roles of Design(ing) in Qualitative Research - Uwe Flick Part 1: Concepts of Designing Designs in Qualitative Research Part 1 Introduction - Uwe Flick Chapter 2: Reflexive Design in Qualitative Research - Mats Alvesson, Jörgen Sandberg, and Katja Einola Chapter 3: Interactive Approaches to Qualitative Research Design - Joseph A. Maxwell Chapter 4: Emergent Design - Martyn Hammersley Chapter 5: Choosing a Research Design for Qualitative Research - A Ferris Wheel of Approaches - Karen M. Staller & Yun Chen Part 2: Theories and Epistemological Contexts of Designing Qualitative Research Part 2 Introduction - Uwe Flick Chapter 6: Constructionism and Qualitative Research Design - Jonathan Potter & Jessica Robles Chapter 7: Phenomenology: Alfred Schutz’s Structures of the Life-world and their Implications - Thomas S. Eberle Chapter 8: Care-ful Research: Sensibilities from STS - John Law & Wen-yuan Lin Chapter 9: Critical Realism as a Stance for Designing Qualitative Research - Joseph A. Maxwell Chapter 10: Ontologies of Relation and Difference in "Research designs" - Mirka Koro, David Lee Carlson, Marina Basu, & Keti Tsotniashuili Chapter 11: Feminist Research: Inequality, Social Change and Intersectionality - Alexandra J Hawkey & Jane M Ussher Chapter 12: Queer(ing) Methodologies - Tommaso M. Milani & Rodrigo Borba Chapter 13: Decolonising Qualitative Research Design - Helen Moewaka Barnes & Tim McCreanor Chapter 14: Qualitative Research within a Post-colonial Indigenous Paradigm - Bagele Chilisa & Keneilwe Phatshwane Part 3: Elements of Designing Qualitative Research Part 3 Introduction - Uwe Flick Chapter 15: Abduction as a Guiding Principle in Qualitative Research Design - Robert Thornberg Chapter 16: Developing Research Questions: The Social Lives of Ideas, Interests and Questions - Tim Rapley Chapter 17: Selecting a Sample - Michael Meyer & Wolfgang Mayrhofer Chapter 18: Creative with Resources in Qualitative Research - Amarante Swift Chapter 19: Role and Impact of CAQDAS Software for Designs in Qualitative Research - Susanne Friese Chapter 20: Generalization as an Issue for Qualitative Research Design - Joseph A. Maxwell Chapter 21: The Impact of Funding on Ways Qualitative Research is Thought About and Designed - Julianne Cheek Chapter 22: Ethical Entanglements: Conceptualizing "Research Purposes/Design In the Contemporary Political World" - Gaile S. Cannella Chapter 23: The Fallacy of Rigor: Examining Checklist Criteria as an Indicator of Quality - Janice M. Morse Part 4: Basic Designs and Research Strategies in Qualitative Research Part 4 Introduction - Uwe Flick Chapter 24: Designing Case Studies - Malcolm Tight Chapter 25: Qualitative Longitudinal Design: Time, Change, Interpretive Practices - Karen Henwood & Fiona Shirani Chapter 26: Qualitative Research Design across Different Cultural Communities - Carolin Demuth & Alessandra Fasulo Chapter 27: Designing Grounded Theory Studies - Robert Thornberg & Elaine Keane Chapter 28: Designing Ethnographies - Marie Buscatto Chapter 29: Designing Research for Naturally Occurring Data - Jonathan Potter & Alexa Hepburn Chapter 30: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis - Elliott M. Hoey Chapter 31: Arts-based Research in the Social Sciences - Briege Casey & Michael Murray Chapter 32: Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis - Louise Corti Chapter 33: Meta-analysis in Qualitative Research: A Descriptive-Interpretative Approach - Ladislav Timulak & Mary Creaner Part 5: Mixing Methods in Designing Qualitative Research Part 5 Introduction - Uwe Flick Chapter 34: Pluralisms in Qualitative Research Design - Kerry Chamberlain Chapter 35: Psychosocial Methodologies - David W. Jones Chapter 36: Designing for Multimodal Data and Mixed Methods within a Qualitative Framework - Pat Bazeley Chapter 37: Mixed Methods Research Designs in Qualitatively-driven Research - Sharlene Hesse-Biber Chapter 38: The Power of Qualitative Research in Mixed Methods Research Designs - Julianne Cheek & Janice M. Morse Chapter 39: Revitalizing Triangulation as a Framework for Designing Multi-perspective Qualitative Research - Uwe Flick Volume 2: Practices of Designing Qualitative Research: Data, Fields and Impact Part 6: Designing Qualitative Research for Specific Kinds of Data Part 6 Introduction - Uwe Flick Chapter 40: Designing Qualitative Research Using Interview Data - Kathryn Roulston & Sean N. Halpin Chapter 41: Designing Focus Groups - Sabine Caillaud, Nikos Kalampalikis, & Marjolaine Doumergue Chapter 42: Designing for Narratives and Stories - Asta Rau & Jan K. Coetzee Chapter 43: Designing for Observation - David Wästerfors Chapter 44: Designing Qualitative Research for Working with Visual Data: Insights from Psychology - Katherine Johnson & Paula Reavey Chapter 45: Working with Video Data - Lorenza Mondada Chapter 46: Designing for the Ethnographic Study of Documents - Katarina Jacobsson Chapter 47: Designing Qualitative Research Using ′Material Methods′ - Researching with Objects/Things - Sophie Woodward Chapter 48: A Language-First Approach to Health Research; Sociolinguistic Ethnography in Hospital Settings - Polina Mesinioti, Jo Angouri, & Chris Turner Part 7: Designing Qualitative Online and Multimodal Research Part 7 Introduction - Uwe Flick Chapter 49: Designing Qualitative Research Using online Newspaper Comments - JoAnne Meredith, Emma Richardson, Alexandra Kent, & K.M. Budds Chapter 50: Digital and no Digital: Researching Digital Practices as Trans-situated Activities in Everyday Later Life - Roser Beneito-Montagut Chapter 51: Designing Qualitative Research for Working with Facebook Data - Uta Russmann Chapter 52: A Facebook Discourse-oriented Ethnography of Greek Jewish Heritage - Salomi Boukala & Dimitris Serafis Chapter 53: Designing Qualitative Discourse Analysis Research with Twitter - Samuel Bennett Chapter 54: Designing Qualitative Research for Working with Blogs as Data - Elena Wilson & Nicole Johnson Chapter 55: Designing Qualitative Research with Instagram - Kerry Chamberlain & Meghan Lynch Chapter 56: Designing Qualitative Research for Working with Social Media ′Big′ Datasets - Mike Thelwall Part 8: Designing Qualitative Research for Specific Groups and Areas Part 8 Introduction - Uwe Flick Chapter 57: Designing Qualitative Research with the Elderly - Irina Catrinel Cracium Chapter 58: Designing Qualitative Research with Children - Bronwyn Davies Chapter 59: Physical Culture and Embodied Ethnography - Michael D. Giardina & Michele K. Donnelly Chapter 60: Challenges in Designing Qualitative Research when Working with and for Hard-to-Reach Groups - Kerry Chamberlain & Darrin Hodgetts Chapter 61: Intersecting Identities in Health Care Research - Jo Angouri, Polina Mesinioti, Rumaisa Banatwalla, & Georgios K Dimitriadis Chapter 62: Researching Institutions after the Discursive Turn - Amelie Kutter & Federico Masson Chapter 63: Designing Qualitative Research for Studies in Asia: Decentering Research Practices for Local Norms of Relevance - John L. Adamson Chapter 64: Designing Qualitative Research for Studies in Latin America - Nicolás Schöngut-Grollmus & María-Alejandra Energici Part 9: Designing Qualitative Research in Disciplinary Fields Part 9 Introduction - Uwe Flick Chapter 65: Designing Qualitative Research for Studies in Education - Massimiliano Tarozzi Chapter 66: Designing Qualitative Social Work Research - Jane F. Gilgun Chapter 67: Designing Qualitative Research in Psychology - Sarah Riley & Kerry Chamberlain Chapter 68: Unpacking Nursing′s Epistemological Foundations as a Basis for Applied Qualitative Design - Sally Thorne Chapter 69: Designing Qualitative Research for Disability Rights Approaches - Hilary Stace, Kirsten Smiler, and Martin Sullivan Part 10: Designing Qualitative Research for Impact Part 10 Introduction - Uwe Flick Chapter 70: Impact-Driven Qualitative Research and Evaluation - Michael Patton Chapter 71: Reclaiming Qualitative Design for the Applied Disciplines - Sally Thorne Chapter 72: Designing Qualitative and Mixed Methods Evaluations for Transformative Impact - Donna M. Mertens Chapter 73: Designing Indigenous Qualitative Research for Policy Implementation - Fiona Cram Chapter 74: Diversity, Ethics, and Transparency as Continuing Challenges in Designing Qualitative Research - Uwe Flick

About the Author :
Uwe Flick is Senior Professor of Qualitative Research in Social Science and Education at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is a trained psychologist and sociologist and received his PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin in 1988 and his Habilitation from the Technical University Berlin in 1994. He has been Professor of Qualitative Research at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany and at the University of Vienna, Austria. Previously, he was Adjunct Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Canada; a Lecturer in research methodology at the Freie Universität Berlin; a Reader and Assistant Professor in qualitative methods and evaluation at the Technical University Berlin; and Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Sociology at the Hannover Medical School. He has held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Cambridge University (UK), Memorial University of St John’s (Canada), University of Lisbon (Portugal), Institute of Higher Studies in Vienna, in Italy and Sweden, and the School of Psychology at Massey University, Auckland (New Zealand). His main research interests are qualitative methods, social representations in the fields of individual and public health, vulnerability in fields like youth homelessness or (forced) migration and chronical illness in everyday live. He is the editor of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design (2 Vols.; Sage 2022). The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis (Sage, 2014), The SAGE Qualitative Research Kit (Sage, 2nd edn, 2018), A Companion to Qualitative Research (Sage, 2004), Psychology of the Social (Cambridge University Press, 1998). His most recent publications are the seventh edition of An Introduction to Qualitative Research (Sage, 2023), Doing Grounded Theory (Sage, 2018), Doing Triangulation and Mixed Methods (Sage, 2018), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection (editor, Sage, 2018), the third edition of Introducing Research Methodology – Thinking Your Way through Your Research Project (Sage, 2020) and Doing Interview Research - The Essential How To Guide (Sage 2022). In 2019, Uwe Flick received the Lifetime Award in Qualitative Inquiry at the 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Review :
This Handbook will prove invaluable to all researchers specialising in qualitative research in its many forms. An extraordinarily rich combination of authors and approaches, it provides timely consideration of multiple angles of research design. It is an exciting, insightful and important collection, offering both a highly contemporary reflection on qualitative research whilst also encouraging and ensuring its continued development. As discussions on designing qualitative studies are both rare and important, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design is a valuable contribution, especially for those of us who still grapple, not only with how to generate empirical material but also with issues on which participants, situations, and precise methods we use. Do we need cases, comparisons, snapshots, longitudinal or retrospective studies? If the ideal design is not possible for our research aims, how do we use our creativity in making do with what is achievable? With its many perspectives and a myriad of methods, this volume will become a rich and essential resource for both researchers and students. Qualitative research design is a difficult issue, since the idea of a meticulously planned and tailored research plan seems to run counter basic ideas of openness and flexibility which form hallmarks of qualitative research. Researchers interested in competent advice regarding the development of qualitative research designs thus could only draw on a limited number of older monographs and articles until most recently. Consequently, this new Handbook fills an important gap: with contributions from experienced researchers from a wide range of disciplines and local areas, it addresses design issues from various angles - for specific qualitative and mixed methods, specific data, online research, disciplinary contexts and epistemological perspectives.