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SAGE Journal Articles

Here you’ll find access both to selected SAGE journal articles and recommended further readings.

Please note the first three articles per chapter have been provided open access, all other links require journal subscription access which may be available through your university

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Chapter 1: Introducing qualitative research

Open access articles

Atkinson P, Coffey A and Delamont S. (2001) A debate about our canon. Qualitative Research 1: 5-21.

Creswell J and Tashakkori A. (2007) Editorial: Differing Perspectives on Mixed Methods Research. Journal of Mixed Methods 1: 303-308.

Chapter 2: Practical philosophy

Open access articles

Birks M, Mills J, Chapman Y, et al. (2009) A Thousand Words Paint a Picture: The use of storyline in grounded theory. Journal of Research in Nursing 14: 405-418.

Newton BJ, Rothlingova Z, Gutteridge R, et al. (2012) No room for reflexivity? Critical reflections following a systematic review of qualitative research. Journal of Health Psychology 17: 866-885.

Peshkin A. (1988) In Search of Subjectivity - One's Own. Educational Researcher 17: 17-21.

Chapter 3: Methodology and methods

Open access articles

Carter SM and Little M. (2007) Justifying knowledge, justifying method, taking action: Epistemologies, methodologies, and methods in qualitative research. Qualitative Health Research 17: 1316-1328.

Favero LW and Heath RG. (2012) Generational Perspectives in the Workplace: Interpreting the discourses that constitute women's struggle to balance work and life. Journal of Business Communication 49: 332-356.

Holloway I and Biley F. (2011) Being a Qualitative Researcher. Qualitative Health Research 21: 968-975.

Additional journal links

Kincheloe J. (2001) Describing the Bricolage: Conceptualizing a New Rigor in Qualitative Research. Qualitative Inquiry 7: 679-692.

Morse JM. (2011) Molding Qualitative Health Research. Qualitative Health Research 21: 1019-1021.

Sandelowski M. (2002) Reembodying Qualitative Inquiry. Qualitative Health Research 12: 104-115.

Chapter 4: Action research

Open access articles

Chandler D and Torbert B. (2003) Transforming inquiry and action: Interweaving 27 flavors of action research. Action Research 1: 133-152.

Fals Borda O. (1987) The application of participatory action research in Latin America. International sociology 2: 329-347.

Frost N, Nolas SM, Brooks-Gordon B, et al. (2010) Pluralism in qualitative research: the impact of different researchers and qualitative approaches on the analysis of qualitative data. Qualitative Research 10: 441-460.

Additional journal links

Heller FA and Brown A. (1995) Group Feedback Analysis applied to longitudinal monitoring of the decision making process. Human Relations 48: 815-836.

McVicar A, Munn-Giddings C and Abu-Helil C. (2012) Exploring the development of action research in nursing and social care in the UK: a comparative bibliometric review of action research designs in social work (2000–2010). Action Research 10: 79-101.

Ragland BB. (2006) Positioning the practitioner-researcher: five ways of looking at practice. Action Research 4: 165-182.

Reason P. (2006) Choice and quality in action research practice. Journal of Management Inquiry 15: 187-203.

Slavin RE. (2002) Evidence-based education policies: transforming educational practice and research. Educational Researcher 31: 15-21.

Torbert W. (1999) The distinctive questions developmental action inquiry asks. Management Learning 30: 189-206.

Chapter 5: Discourse analysis

Open access articles

Alvesson M and Karreman D. (2000) Varieties of discourse: On the study of organizations through discourse analysis. Human Relations 53: 1125-1149.

Cheek J. (2004) At the margins? Discourse analysis and qualitative research. Qualitative Health Research 14: 1140-1150.

Fernandez-Sola C, Garnero-Molina J, Manrique GA, et al. (2012) New regulation of the right to dignified dying in Spain: Repercussions for nursing. Nursing Ethics.19(5): 619-628.

Additional journal links

LeGreco M and Tracy SJ. (2009) Discourse tracing as qualitative practice. Qualitative Inquiry 15: 1516-1543.

Mirivel JC. (2007) Managing poor surgical candidacy: Communication problems for plastic surgeons. Discourse & Communication 1: 309-336.

Tracy K. (1995) Action-implicative discourse analysis. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 14: 195-215.

Tracy SJ. (2000) Becoming a character for commerce: Emotion labor, self-subordination, and discursive construction of identity in a total institution. Management Communication Quarterly 14: 90-128.

Tracy SJ. (2010) Qualitative quality: Eight "big-tent" criteria for excellent qualitative research. Qualitative inquiry 16: 837-851.

Trethewey A. (2002) Forum introduction. Management Communication Quarterly 16: 81-84.

Chapter 6: Critical ethnography

Open access articles

Finlay L. (2002) “Outing” the researcher: The provenance, process, and practice of reflexivity. Qualitative Health Research 12: 531–545.

Hsieh HF, & Shannon, S. E. (2005) Three approaches to qualitative content analysis. Qualitative Health Research 15: 1277-1288.

Lassiter LE and Campbell E. (2010) What will we have ethnography do? Qualitative Inquiry 16: 757-767.

Additional journal links

Lincoln YS. (1995) Emerging Criteria for Quality in Qualitative and Interpretive Research. Qualitative Inquiry 1: 275-289.

Wetherell M. (1998) Positioning and interpretative repertoires: Conversation analysis and post-structuralism in dialogue. Discourse & Society 9: 387-412.

Chapter 7: Grounded theory

Birks M, Mills J, Chapman Y, et al. (2009) A Thousand Words Paint a Picture: The use of storyline in grounded theory. Journal of Research in Nursing 14: 405-418.

Chapter 8: Historical research

Collins HM. (1981) Introduction: Stages in the Empirical Programme of Relativism. Social Studies of Science 11: 3-10.

Chapter 9: Case study

Open access articles

Flyvbjerg B. (2006) Five Misunderstandings about case-study research. Qualitative Inquiry 12: 219-245.

Platt J. (1992) “Case Study” in American Methodological Thought. Current Sociology 40: 17-48.

Smith LM. (1978) An Evolving Logic of Participant Observation, Educational Ethnography, and Other Case Studies. Review of Research in Education 6: 316-377.

Additional journal links

Yin RK. (1981) The Case Study Crisis: Some Answers. Administrative Science Quarterly 26: 58-65.

Chapter 10: Narrative research

Barone T. (1992) A narrative of enhanced professionalism: educational researchers and popular storybooks about school people. Educational Researcher. 21: 15-24.

Barone T. (2007) A return to the gold standard? Questioning the future of narrative construction as educational research. Qualitative Inquiry. 13: 454-470.

Bochner A. (2001) Narrative’s virtues. Qualitative Inquiry. 7: 131-157.

Additional journal links

Ceglowski D. (1997) That’s a good story, but is it really research? Qualitative Inquiry. 3: 188-201.

Hendry MP. (2007) The future of narrative. Qualitative Inquiry 13: 487-498.

Chapter 11: Phenomenology

Open access articles

Lopez K and Willis D. (2004) Descriptive Versus Interpretive Phenomenology: Their Contributions to Nursing Knowledge. Qualitative Health Research 14: 726-735.

van Manen M. (2011) Carrying: Parental experience of the hospital transfer of their baby. Qualitative Health Research 22: 199-211.

Chapter 12: The Research Proposal

Open access articles

Padgett DK and Henwood BF. (2009) Obtaining Large-Scale Funding for Empowerment-Oriented Qualitative Research: A Report From Personal Experience. Qualitative Health Research 19: 868-874.

Penrod J. (2003) Getting Funded: Writing a Successful Qualitative Small-Project Proposal. Qualitative Health Research 13: 821-832.

Sandelowski M and Barroso J. (2003) Writing the proposal for a qualitative research methodology project. Qualitative Health Research 13: 781-820.

Chapter 13: Quality in qualitative research

Open access articles

Burns N. (1989) Standards for qualitative research. Nursing Science Quarterly 2: 44-52.

Meyer DZ and Avery LM. (2009) Excel as a Qualitative Data Analysis Tool. Field Methods 21: 91-112.

Newton BJ, Rothlingova Z, Gutteridge R, et al. (2012) No room for reflexivity? Critical reflections following a systematic review of qualitative research. Journal of Health Psychology 17: 866-885.

Additional journal links

Tracy SJ. (2010) Qualitative quality: Eight "big-tent" criteria for excellent qualitative research. Qualitative inquiry 16: 837-851.

Chapter 14: New generation of qualitative research

Open access articles

Bainbridge R, Whiteside M and McCalman J. (2013) Being, Knowing, and Doing: A Phronetic Approach to Constructing Grounded Theory With Aboriginal Australian Partners. Qualitative Health Research 23: 275-288.

Denzin N. (2009) The elephant in the living room: or extending the conversation about the politics of evidence. Qualitative Research 9: 139-160.

Donmoyer R. (2012) Can Qualitative Researchers Answer Policymakers’ What-Works Question? Qualitative Inquiry 18: 662-673.

Additional journal links

Favero LW and Heath RG. (2012) Generational Perspectives in the Workplace: Interpreting the discourses that constitute women's struggle to balance work and life. Journal of Business Communication 49: 332-356.

Flyvbjerg B. (2006) Five Misunderstandings about case-study research. Qualitative Inquiry 12: 219-245.

Giddings LS. (2006) Mixed-methods research: Positivism dressed in drag? Journal of Research in Nursing 11: 195-203.

Lather P. (2004) This is Your Father's Paradigm: Government Intrusion and the Case of Qualitative Research in Education. Qualitative Inquiry 10: 15-34.

Lincoln YS. (2012) The Political Economy of Publication: Marketing, Commodification, and Qualitative Scholarly Work. Qualitative Health Research 22: 1451-1459.

Maxwell J. (2004) Causal Explanation, Qualitative Research, and Scientific Inquiry in Education. Educational Researcher 33: 3-11.

Maxwell JA. (2012) The Importance of Qualitative Research for Causal Explanation in Education. Qualitative Inquiry 18: 655-661.

Sandelowski M and Leeman J. (2012) Writing Usable Qualitative Health Research Findings. Qualitative Health Research 22: 1404-1413.

Authors: Jane Mills and Melanie Birks

Pub Date: January 2014

Pages: 288

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