Qualitative Methods in Psychology: a Research Guide (UK Higher Education OUP Psychology Psychology)

Providing an accessible introduction to qualitative methods, this book combines a solid grounding in the theory behind research methods, with a practical guide to conducting qualitative investigations, and a critical assessment of these methods.

Thoroughly revised, the new edition reflects the changes that have taken place in research methods in recent years and features a new three part layout, with the individual sections covering:

• Orientations - broad considerations about qualitative research
• Methodologies - includes worked examples of major different qualitative research approaches: observation, ethnography, interviewing, personal construct, psychosocial analysis, narrative enquiry and historical analyses
• Representations - a guide to writing up qualitative research, with an emphasis on reflexivity and ethics

• Phenomenology
• Psychosocial analysis
• Narrative inquiry
• Future directions for qualitative research
• Emerging forms of representation
• Problems in qualitative research