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Chapter 1 Qualitative Methodology and Health Research

Heller, T. and Van Til, J (1982).  Leadership and followership: some summary propositions.  Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 18, 405-414. (Link to PDF of Article)

Discussion Questions

Davis, K. E. (1982).  The status of black leadership: Implications for black followers in the 1980s.  Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 18, 309-322.

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Chapter 2 Developing Qualitative Research Designs

Drodge, E. N. and Murphy, S. A. (2002).  Interrogating emotions in police leadership.  Human Resource Development Review 2002, 1, 420-438.

Abstract and Discussion Questions

Theoharis, G. (2008).  Woven in deeply: Identity and leadership of urban social justice principals.
Education and Urban Society 2008, 41: 3-24.

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Chapter 3 Responsibilities, Ethics and Values

Janson, A. (2008).  Extracting leadership knowledge from formative experiences.  Leadership, 4(10), 73-94.

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Martin, M. J., Aupperle, K. E., and Chen, R. (1996).  Strategic leadership and skill usage by academic presidents.  The Journal of Leadership Studies, 3(1), 139-150.

This is an older article that uses the Three Skill Model to assess self-reported leader behaviors of college presidents.  This article would pair nicely with an assignment to interview the college or university president on your campus or invite the president to speak to the class about his/her views on the essential skills for academic leadership.

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Chapter 6 Observational Methods

The American Anthropological Association’s Medical Anthropology section has a site with useful definitions, links to blogs and resources:

http://www.medanthro.net/feature/what-is-medical-anthropology/

Chapter 7 Physical and Virtual Documentary Sources

The internet provides a ready source of easily accessible material for secondary analysis, including public web sites of patient organizations that often include personal accounts of living with illness.  One excellent source of narratives on living with a range of illnesses is health talk online, which has video clips, audio files and written material:

http://www.healthtalkonline.org/

Chapter 8 Beginning Data Analysis

The best place to start for further resources to help with analysis is the Online QDA resource, with links to tutorials, further resources, and outlines of different analysis styles and approaches:

http://onlineqda.hud.ac.uk/

For support on computer aided analysis, the CAQDAS networking site has links to training courses, networking support and details of most of the common (and a few less common) software packages available to help manage and analyze qualitative data:

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sociology/research/researchcentres/caqdas/

Chapter 9 Developing Qualitative Analysis

Narrative Research @ Anglia Ruskin is a site with some introductory material, notes and references on various aspects of narrative analysis:

http://web.anglia.ac.uk/narratives/index.phtml

The Australian Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis has uploaded some fantastic video material to YouTube for anyone wanting some insight into these approaches to analysis:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AIEMCA#p/u

Chapter 10 Reading, Appraising and Integrating

The EQUATOR network has collated various quality criteria used for reporting of qualitative health research – this is a useful overview of the various checklists available, mainly used in biomedical projects and journals:

http://www.equator-network.org/resource-centre/library-of-health-research-rting-guidelines/qualitative-research/

 

Chapter 11 Mixing Methods and Designs

The NIHR Research Design Service for the West Midlands has a useful introductory site for planning a mixed method project:

http://www.rds-wm.nihr.ac.uk/web/guest/mixed-methods-home

Chapter 12 Writing Up and Disseminating

Some examples of novel ways of sharing your research include pinterest  - see for instance  Deborah Lupton’s Pinterest:

http://pinterest.com/dalupton/

For ideas about how to disseminate in novel ways, and ways likely to reach an audience wider than other academics, look at some of the blogs listed for Chapter 1, or this one, which largely covers news from Australia:

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/

BBC Radio 4 iplayer has an archive of recent programmes from the Thinking Allowed series hosted by sociologist Laurie Taylor. This features interviews with researchers about their recently published research. It isn’t specifically either qualitative or health focused, although these kinds of research do often feature, but it is an interesting and accessible way to hear people talk about the process and outcome of sociological research:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=Thinking%20Allowed

Authors:Judith Green and Nicki Thorogood

Pub Date: November 2013

Pages: 376

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