Introduction
Philosophical Assumptions and Interpretive Frameworks
Designing a Qualitative Study
Five Qualitative Approaches to Inquiry
Five Different Qualitative Studies
Introducing and Focusing the Study
Data Collection
Data Analysis and Representation
Writing a Qualitative Study
Standards of Validation and Evaluation
“Turning the Story” and Conclusion
John W. Creswell, PhD, is a Professor of Family Medicine and Senior
Research Scientist of
the Michigan Mixed Methods Program. He has authored numerous
articles and 34 books on
mixed methods research, qualitative research, and research design.
While at the University of
Nebraska–Lincoln, he held the Clifton Endowed Professor Chair,
served as Director of the
Mixed Methods Research Office, co-founded SAGE’s Journal of Mixed
Methods Research, and
was an Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at the University of
Michigan and a consultant to
the Veterans Administration Health Services Research Center in Ann
Arbor, Michigan. He was
a Senior Fulbright Scholar to South Africa in 2008 and to Thailand
in 2012. In 2011, he co-led
a National Institutes of Health working group on the “best
practices of mixed methods research
in the health sciences,” served as a Visiting Professor at
Harvard’s School of Public Health and
received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria,
South Africa. In 2014, he was
the founding President of the Mixed Methods International Research
Association. In 2015, he
joined the staff of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan
to Co-Direct the Michigan
Mixed Methods Program. In 2017, he coauthored the American
Psychological Association
“standards” on qualitative and mixed methods research. The fourth
edition of this book on
Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design won the 2018 McGuffey
Longevity Award from the U.S.
Textbook & Academic Authors Association. During the COVID-19
pandemic, he gave virtual
keynote presentations to many countries from his office in Osaka,
Japan. Updates on his work
can be found on his website at johnwcreswell.com.
Cheryl N. Poth, PhD, is a Professor in the Faculty of Education and
faculty member of the
research-intensive Centre for Research and Applied Measurement and
Evaluation at the
University of Alberta. In this role, she has developed and taught
graduate-level research methods
and program evaluation courses in addition to supervising and
mentoring students, faculty,
and local as well as global community members in qualitative,
quantitative, and mixed methods
research. She is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed journal
articles, three books as well as
numerous book chapters. Her work has been recognized by the
American Educational Research
Association with the Division D Significant Contributions to
Research Methodology Award
in 2023 (with Peggy Shannon-Baker) and by the Textbook & Academic
Authors Association
with the Most Promising New Textbook Award in 2020 and the McGuffey
Longevity Award
for Qualitative Research book in 2018 (with John Creswell). She
served as Editor of the SAGE
Handbook of Mixed Methods Research (2023) and as Guest Coeditor of
several journal special
issues, including the International Journal of Qualitative Methods.
In addition to more than
40 invited talks and 150 conference presentations, she has led
research methods workshops
with diverse audiences on four continents. She served as an
Advisory Board Member of the
International Institute of Qualitative Methodology (2014–2020); the
President of the Mixed
Methods International Research Association (2017–2018); a Research
Fellow at the University
of South Africa (2018–2020); a Helen Glass Scholar in the College
of Nursing within the Rady
Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba (2022);
and as a MERIT Visiting
Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University
(2023–2025). In 2009, she
cofounded the interdisciplinary Alberta Clinical and
Community-Based Evaluation Research
Team to advance innovative community–university research
partnership supports for program
planning and impact assessments of service delivery for individuals
with complex needs. She
serves as the Methodologist on several cross-disciplinary research
teams and has led federally,
provincially, and locally funded research projects. She is an
Associate Editor of the Journal of
Mixed Methods Research and is an editorial board member of several
journals. Updates on her
work can be found on her website at
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/cheryl-poth/.
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