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Qualitative Research: Research Design Resources

This guide provides a list of resources and tips for researching qualitative topics

Suggested eBooks

Suggested Articles/Chapters

Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research
Doing a Hermeneutic Phenomenology Research Underpinned by Gadamer’s Philosophy: A Framework to Facilitate Data Analysis
Preparing, conducting, and analyzing Delphi surveys: Cross-disciplinary practices, new directions, and advancements
Now I see it, now I don’t: researcher’s position and reflexivity in qualitative research
Reconceptualizing Recruitment in Qualitative Research
Enhancing Researcher Reflexivity About the Influence of Leading Questions in Interviews
The Central Role of Theory in Qualitative Research
Reflexivity in Qualitative Research
Thinking about the Coding Process in Qualitative Data Analysis
Are We There Yet? Data Saturation in Qualitative Research
The Phenomenological House: A Metaphoric Framework for Descriptive Phenomenological Psychological Design and Analysis
Journal article reporting standards for qualitative primary, qualitative meta-analytic, and mixed methods research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report
Piloting for Interviews in Qualitative Research: Operationalization and Lessons Learnt
Successful Recruitment to Qualitative Research: A Critical Reflection
Empirical Phenomenological Inquiry: Guidance in Choosing Between Different Methodologies
Case Study Methodology of Qualitative Research: Key Attributes and Navigating the Conundrums in Its Application
Developing Research Questions: The Social Lives of Ideas, Interests and Questions
Qualitative Content Analysis
Phenomenology and hermeneutic phenomenology: the philosophy, the methodologies, and using hermeneutic phenomenology to investigate lecturers’ experiences of curriculum design
Qualitative Study
Planning Qualitative Research: Design and Decision Making for New Researchers
Using quotes to present claims: Practices for the writing stages of qualitative research
Bracketing in qualitative research: Conceptual and practical matters
Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research

Little Blue Books Collection

Little Blue Books Collection
Little Blue Books Little Blue Books provide guidance and teaching for qualitative research methods. These books are on topics related to qualitative research and provide explanations and commentary on theoretical and practical areas of qualitative research.