List of readings for qualitative research

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Adeagbo, O., Xulu, S., Dlamini, N., Luthuli, M., Herbst, C., Mhlongo,
T., ... & Seeley, J. Transcription as a Key Phase of Data Analysis in
Qualitative Research: Experience from KwaZulu-Natal, South
Africa.
Semi-structured
interviews; Focus Group
Discussions
Transcripts; coding HIV
Hopkins, P. E. (2007). Thinking critically and creatively about focus
groups. Area, 39(4), 528-535.
Focus Group Discussion Positionality; group
composition
Religious
identities
Kristiansen, T. M., & Grønkjær, M. (2017). Focus groups as social
arenas for the negotiation of normativity. International Journal of
Qualitative Methods, 17(1), 1609406917747393.
Focus Group Discussions Conversation
analysis; discursive
pyschology; social
norms; normativity
Health
Belzile, J. A. and G. Öberg (2012) ‘Where to begin? Grappling with
how to use participant interaction in focus group design,’
Qualitative Research 12(4): 459-472
Focus Group Discussion
Mukhopadhyay, S., Ray, S., & Bhatia, J. (2004). Mothers’ perceptions
and attitudes towards maternal morbidity in rural West Bengal:
findings from focus group discussions. Indian Journal of Gender
Studies, 11(3), 369-387.
Focus Group Discussion Health
Staveren, I. V. (1997). Focus groups: contributing to a gender-aware
methodology. Feminist economics, 3(2), 131-135.
Focus Group Discussion
Peek, L., & Fothergill, A. (2009). Using focus groups: Lessons from
studying daycare centers, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina. Qualitative
research, 9(1), 31-59.
Focus Group Discussion
Maier, S. L., & Monahan, B. A. (2009). How close is too close?
Balancing closeness and detachment in qualitative research.
Deviant Behavior, 31(1), 1-32.
Interviews closeness; intimacy;
detachment
Arsel, Z. (2017). Asking questions with reflexive focus: A tutorial on
designing and conducting interviews. Journal of Consumer
Research, 44(4), 939-948.
Interviews Reflexive focus;
designing
interviews;
conducting
interviews;
interview protocol;
ethics
Consumer
research

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McGarrol, S. (2017). The emotional challenges of conducting in‐
depth research into significant health issues in health geography:
reflections on emotional labour, fieldwork and life course. Area, 49
(4), 436-442.
Interviews Emotional labour;
life course; in-depth
research
Health
geography
Full citation: Harvey, W.S. (2010). Methodological Approaches for
Interviewing Elites. Geography Compass, 4(3): 193-205.
Interviewing elites Access;
positionality;
flexibility;
transperancy;
etiquette
Seale, C., Charteris-Black, J., Dumelow, C., Locock, L., & Ziebland, S.
(2008). The effect of joint interviewing on the performance of
gender. Field methods, 20(2), 107-128.
Interviews joint-interviewing; Health
Hiller, H. H., & DiLuzio, L. (2004). The interviewee and the research
interview: Analysing a neglected dimension in research. Canadian
Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 41(1), 1-26.
Interview Interviewee
objective; reflexive
progression;
biographically
situated;
Migration
Turner III, D. W. (2010). Qualitative interview design: A practical
guide for novice investigators. The qualitative report, 15(3), 754.
Interviews Protocol;
Campbell, M. L. (1998). Institutional ethnography and experience as
data. Qualitative sociology, 21(1), 55-73.
Institutional ethnography;
interviews; observation
Experience as data;
trustworthy
analysis;
Nursing
Heiland, H. Controlling space, controlling labour? Contested space
in food delivery gig work. New Technology, Work and Employment.
Guided interviews;
ethnography; content
analysis
Space; labour;
platform work
Gig work
Campbell, M. L. (1998). Institutional ethnography and experience as
data. Qualitative sociology, 21(1), 55-73.
Institutional ethnography;
interviews; observation
Nursing
Harvey, S. A., Olórtegui, M. P., Leontsini, E., & Winch, P. J. (2009).
“They'll change what they're doing if they know that you're
watching”: measuring reactivity in health behavior because of an
observer's presence—a case from the Peruvian Amazon. Field
Methods, 21(1), 3-25.
Direct observation Reactivity; bias;
validity of
observational data
Health
behaviour
Chattopadhyay, Sutapa. "Getting personal while narrating the
‘field’: a researcher's journey to the villages of the Narmada valley."
Gender, Place & Culture 20, no. 2 (2013): 137-159.
Feminist Ethnography Ethics; insider-
outsider; reflexivity;
positionality; power

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Münster, D. (2012). Farmers’ suicides and the state in India:
Conceptual and ethnographic notes from Wayanad, Kerala.
Contributions to Indian Sociology, 46(1-2), 181-208.
Ethnographic notes Access; categories;
personhood;
subectivity
Farmer suicide
Lenette, C., & Gardner, J. (2021). Short Take: Walking Interviews
with Refugee-background Women. Field Methods,
1525822X20987331.
Walking interviews Walking; co-
creators in
research; ethics
Refugee studies
Akemu, O., & Abdelnour, S. (2020). Confronting the digital: Doing
ethnography in modern organizational settings. Organizational
Research Methods, 23(2), 296-321.
Digital ethnography Authenticity; multi-
sited; digital
archive; digital
process;
multivocality
Organizational
research
McDonald, S. (2005). Studying actions in context: a qualitative
shadowing method for organizational research. Qualitative
research, 5(4), 455-473.
Shadowing Organizational
research
Temporality in Qualitative Enquiry - Theories, Methods and
Practices
Ethnography Waiting Healthcare
settings
Boccagni, P. (2016). From the multi-sited to the in-between:
ethnography as a way of delving into migrants’ transnational
relationships. International Journal of Social Research
Methodology, 19(1), 1-16.
Ethnography Migration
studies
Bhattacharya, S. (2018). Unhoming the Home as Field: Notes
Towards Difficult Friendships. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ
Worldmaking, 5(3), 76-83.
Ethnography and
interviews
Insider-outsider;
positionality;
ontology-
epistemology
Gender studies
Zacka, B., Ackerly, B., Elster, J., Allen, S. G., Iqtidar, H., Longo, M., &
Sagar, P. (2020). Political theory with an ethnographic sensibility.
Contemporary Political Theory, 1-34.
Ethnographic sensibility Recursive
reflection;
Political theory
Jeffrey, B., & Troman, G. (2004). Time for ethnography. British
educational research journal, 30(4), 535-548.
Ethnography Time; context;
observation
Education
Thieme, Tatiana, Michele Lancione, and Elisabetta Rosa. "The city
and its margins: ethnographic challenges across makeshift
urbanism: introduction." (2017): 127-134.
Ethnography Urban studies

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Schindler, L., & Schäfer, H. (2020). Practices of writing in
ethnographic work. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography,
0891241620923396.
Writing Ethnographic
work
Writing; note-
taking; annotating;
drafting
Cultural
heritage
Fassin, D. (2013). Why ethnography matters: On anthropology and
its publics. Cultural Anthropology, 28(4), 621-646.
Fine, G. A. (1993). Ten lies of ethnography: Moral dilemmas of field
research. Journal of contemporary ethnography, 22(3), 267-294.
Values;
ehtnographic self;
moral dilemmas
Field research
Adeagbo, O., Xulu, S., Dlamini, N., Luthuli, M., Herbst, C., Mhlongo,
T., ... & Seeley, J. Transcription as a Key Phase of Data Analysis in
Qualitative Research: Experience from KwaZulu-Natal, South
Africa.
Semi-structured
interviews; Focus Group
Discussions
Transcripts; coding HIV
Mukumbang, F. C., & van Wyk, B. (2020). Leveraging the Photovoice
Methodology for Critical Realist Theorizing. International Journal
of Qualitative Methods, 19, 1609406920958981.
Photovoice Critical realism;
epistemology;
participatory
research
HIV
Wang, C., & Burris, M. A. (1997). Photovoice: Concept, methodology,
and use for participatory needs assessment. Health education &
behavior, 24(3), 369-387.
Photovoice Participatory
reserach;
community
photographers;
facilitatons
Public health
Passmore, S. R., Jamison, A. M., Abdelwadoud, M., Rogers, T. B.,
Wiggan, M., Mullins, D. C., & Thomas, S. B. (2020). Use of a
Qualitative Story Deck to Create Scenarios and Uncover Factors
Associated with African American Participation in Genomics
Research. Field Methods, 1525822X20982089.
Qualitative Story deck Scenarios;
willingness to
participate;
gamified technique
Genomics
Research
Levitt, H., Kannan, D., & Ippolito, M. R. (2013). Teaching qualitative
methods using a research team approach: Publishing grounded
theory projects with your class. Qualitative Research in Psychology,
10(2), 119-139.
Grounded theory Memoing; class
project; interviews
Fu, Y. C. (2007). Contact diaries: Building archives of actual and
comprehensive personal networks. Field methods, 19(2), 194-217.
Contact diaries Diary log; social
network;
instrument design;
Ego-centered
networks

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Bergold, J., & Thomas, S. (2012). Participatory research methods: A
methodological approach in motion. Historical Social
Research/Historische Sozialforschung, 191-222.
Participatory research
methods
Action research;
safe space;
democracy;
participation;
Gotschi, E., Delve, R., & Freyer, B. (2009). Participatory photography
as a qualitative approach to obtain insights into farmer groups.
Field Methods, 21(3), 290-308.
Participatory photography Participatory
camera; appraising
photographs;
collective actions
Farmer groups
Werner, O., & Clark, L. (1998). Short Take 26 Ethnographic
Photographs Converted to Line Drawings. CAM Journal, 10(3), 54-
56.
Ethnographic photographs Identity of
participants; line
drawings; ethical
issues; accuracy;
fidelity
Mitlin, D., & Thompson, J. (1995). Participatory approaches in urban
areas: strengthening civil society or reinforcing the status quo?.
Environment and urbanization, 7(1), 231-250.
Participatory approaches History of PRA; who
participates?; civil
society; good
governance;
Urban studies
Stuckey, H. L., Kraschnewski, J. L., Miller-Day, M., Palm, K., Larosa,
C., & Sciamanna, C. (2014). “Weighing” Two Qualitative Methods:
Self-report Interviews and Direct Observations of Participant Food
Choices. Field Methods, 26(4), 343-361.
Crowhurst, I. (2013). The fallacy of the instrumental gate?
Contextualising the process of gaining access through gatekeepers.
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 16(6), 463-
475
Gatekeeper Access to field sites
McAreavey, R., & Das, C. (2013). A delicate balancing act:
Negotiating with gatekeepers for ethical research when
researching minority communities. International Journal of
Qualitative Methods, 12(1), 113-131.
Gatekeeper Ethics; access Minority
communities
Campbell, L. M., Gray, N. J., Meletis, Z. A., Abbott, J. G., & Silver, J. J.
(2006). Gatekeepers and keymasters: Dynamic relationships of
access in geographical fieldwork. Geographical Review, 96(1), 97-
121.
Gatekeeper Access; reflexivity;
keymaster;
relationship
Human
Geography
Reeves, C. L. (2010). A difficult negotiation: Fieldwork relations with
gatekeepers. Qualitative research, 10(3), 315-331.
Gatekeeper Access;
ethnography; exit
Probation
Centres

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Bowman, D. (2009, December). Studying up, down, sideways and
through: situated research and policy networks. In The Future of
Sociology: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Australian
Sociological Association (pp. 1-11).
Studying up Access; situated
research; attitudes;
ethics; power
Sociology and
social policy
Gordon, E. J. (2000). When Oral Consent Will Do. Field Methods, 12
(3), 235–238.
Consent Oral consent;
written consent;
Elliott, M. N., Golinelli, D., Hambarsoomian, K., Perlman, J., &
Wenzel, S. L. (2006). Sampling with field burden constraints: An
application to sheltered homeless and low-income housed women.
Field Methods, 18(1), 43-58.
Sampling Stratified sampling;
clustered sampling;
response rate;
Substance use
and HIV risk
Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2019). To saturate or not to saturate?
Questioning data saturation as a useful concept for thematic
analysis and sample-size rationales. Qualitative Research in Sport,
Exercise and Health, 1-16.
Saturation Sample size
McCorkel, J. A., & Myers, K. (2003). What difference does difference
make? Position and privilege in the field. Qualitative sociology, 26
(2), 199-231.
Reflexivity Positionality;
feminist research;
identity
Feminist
sociology
Berger, R. (2015). Now I see it, now I don’t: Researcher’s position
and reflexivity in qualitative research. Qualitative research, 15(2),
219-234.
Reflexivity Insider-outsider;
positionality
Immigration
Anwar, N. H., & Viqar, S. (2017). Research assistants, reflexivity and
the politics of fieldwork in urban Pakistan. Area, 49(1), 114-121.
Reflexivity Politics of fieldwork;
research assistants;
subjectivity;
identities
Urban studies
Finlay, L. (2002). “Outing” the researcher: The provenance, process,
and practice of reflexivity. Qualitative health research, 12(4), 531-
545.
Reflexivity Trustworthiness,
confessional
accounts; reflexive
analysis
Murray, S. B. (2003). A spy, a shill, a go-between1, or a sociologist:
unveiling the ‘observer’in participant observer. Qualitative
Research, 3(3), 377-395.
Reflexivity

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Mosse, D. (2006). Anti‐social anthropology? Objectivity, objection,
and the ethnography of public policy and professional
communities. Journal of the royal anthropological institute, 12(4),
935-956.
Anthropoligical
boundary making;
Golafshani, N. (2003). Understanding reliability and validity in
qualitative research. The qualitative report, 8(4), 597-607.
Carter, S. M., & Little, M. (2007). Justifying knowledge, justifying
method, taking action: Epistemologies, methodologies, and
methods in qualitative research. Qualitative health research, 17(10),
1316-1328.
Theory of Qual Epistemology;
methodology;
methods
Qualitative
research
Braun, V., & Clarke, V. The Ebbs and Flows of Qualitative REsearch.
Temporality in Qualitative Inquiry
Temporality Time; change Qualitative
research
Annavarapu, S. (2022). The Weight of Waiting: Suspended Mobility
and Deferred Aspirations Amongst Cab Drivers in Hyderabad.
Social Change. Volume: 52 issue: 2, page(s): 187-202
Temporality Digital Labour
Davies, D., & Dodd, J. (2002). Qualitative research and the question
of rigor. Qualitative health research, 12(2), 279-289.
Rigor Ethics; subjectivity;
reflexivity;
interviewing
Elmhirst, R. (2012). Methodological dilemmas in migration research
in Asia: research design, omissions and strategic erasures. Area, 44
(3), 274-281.
Research design;
omissions;
methodological
choices
Migration
research
Sandelowski, M. (2011). When a cigar is not just a cigar: Alternative
takes on data and data analysis. Research in nursing & health, 34(4),
342-352.
Data Analysis Data; data analysis;
interpretive work
Qualitative
research
Davies, D., & Dodd, J. (2002). Pearls, pith, and provocation.
Qualitative research and the question of rigor. Qualitative Health
Research, 12(2), 279-289.
Content analysis Codes; data
segments;
frequencies;
Aberbach, J. D., & Rockman, B. A. (2002). Conducting and coding
elite interviews. PS: Political Science and Politics, 35(4), 673-676.
Interviews; coding Interviewing
process; questions;
access

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DeCuir-Gunby, J. T., Marshall, P. L., & McCulloch, A. W. (2011).
Developing and using a codebook for the analysis of interview data:
An example from a professional development research project.
Field methods, 23(2), 136-155.
Coding Theory
development; data
driven codes;
codebooks
Baxter, J., & Eyles, J. (1997). Evaluating qualitative research in social
geography: establishing ‘rigour’in interview analysis. Transactions
of the Institute of British geographers, 22(4), 505-525.
Interview analysis Inference; rigour;
credibility;
transferability;
dependability;
confirmability;
trustworthiness
Social
Geography
Irwin, S. (2013). Qualitative secondary data analysis: Ethics,
epistemology and context. Progress in development studies, 13(4),
295-306.
Data sharing