Doing Your Qualitative Psychology Project

by Cath Sullivan (Editor), Stephen Gibson (Editor), Sarah Riley (Editor)

Overview

This book is for students who are about to embark on a qualitative research project as part of their psychology degree. While there are a number of books on qualitative psychological research, Doing Your Qualitative Psychology Project is unique as it leads you step-by-step through the process of doing your project and writing your dissertation. The focus throughout is on how to make your project excellent! Editors Cath Sullivan, Stephen Gibson and Sarah C.E. Riley focus on the steps involved in completing a qualitative dissertation and on the decisions that you'll need to make as you go along.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857027467
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/05/2012
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Cath Sullivan is Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the University of Central Lancashire. Cath has been an actively involved in initiatives to support the teaching of qualitative research methods in psychology since 2005 and is a former Chair of the Higher Education Academy ‘Teaching Qualitative Psychology’ Special Interest Group. In addition to this work supporting and training psychology lecturers who teach qualitative methods, Cath has over 10 years’ experience of teaching qualitative methods to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Her published articles and book chapters include empirical qualitative papers and pieces about qualitative methodology. She is co-editor of Doing Qualitative Research in Psychology (Sage, 2019).

Stephen Gibson is Bicentennial Chair in Research Methods and Director of Doctoral Programmes in the School of Social Sciences, Heriot Watt University. He is a social psychologist with research interests in obedience and social influence, identity and citizenship, and representations of peace and conflict. In addition, he has been involved in numerous projects concerning the teaching of qualitative research methods. Between 2008 and 2011 he was chair of the TQRMUL group, and is co-editor (with Simon Mollan) of the volume Representations of Peace and Conflict (Palgrave, 2012).

Sarah Riley is a Professor in Critical Health Psychology at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her award-winning, interdisciplinary research focuses on relationships between discourse, affect, technology, and materiality. Recent co-authored books include Technologies of Sexiness (OUP USA, 2014), Postfeminism and Health (Routledge, 2019), Postfeminism and Body Image (Routledge, 2022); and Digital Feeling (Palgrave, 2023); she chaired the British Psychology Society’s Qualitative Methods in Psychology section (2017-19), and teaches qualitative research methods.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Aims of the Book - Cath Sullivan, Stephen Gibson and Sarah Riley
Coming up with a Research Question - Kathryn Kinmond
Planning and Ethics - Cath Sullivan and Sarah C.E Riley
Managing the Project - Sarah C.E Riley and Nigel King
Doing a Literature Review - Michael Forrester
Collecting Your Data - Siobhan Hugh-Jones and Stephen Gibson
Analysing Your Data - Stephen Gibson and Siobhan Hugh-Jones
Evaluating Qualitative Research - Nollaig Frost and Kathryn Kinmond
Writing up a Qualitative Project - Sarah C.E Riley
What Next? - Cath Sullivan
Overview and Conclusions: Be a Scholar - Stephen Gibson, Cath Sullivan and Sarah C.E Riley

Editorial Reviews

"This is a well-edited, interesting, and intelligent guide for students in the social sciences. The book's strengths include the effective way in which the contributors use flowcharts, inserts, and examples of students' research; the consistently high quality of the writing; and the almost seamless integration across chapters. "

Choice - S. Halling

This book has many strengths. It provides a good overview of the theoretical background and key issues involved in doing a qualitative project, but more importantly there is a plethora of very useful, clearly written and accessible practical advice, as well as case studies... This is an essential book to read before embarking on one’s first qualitative project.

The British Psychological Society QMi P Bulletin - Issue 29 - Aspasia E. Paltoglou

Thanks to this new book, psychology students now have a trustworthy and practical guide that takes them through all stages of qualitative research with rich examples and different paradigmatic perspectives
Svend Brinkmann
Aalborg University, Denmark

A well thought-out, accessible and engaging guide to conducting qualitative research projects. This is a must-read for any student beginning the qualitative journey
Abigail Locke
University of Huddersfield, UK

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