2nd Edition
Qualitative Research Methodologies for Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
This comprehensive text provides a practical introduction to the range of qualitative methodologies and methods being used by occupational science and occupational therapy researchers today, enabling readers to produce and critique high-quality qualitative research themselves.
Showcasing a diverse range of qualitative research from both academic scholarship and the wider community of health professionals, each chapter combines both foundational knowledge and therapeutic applications. Importantly, the book lucidly explains the synergy between research problem, choice of methodology, and methods. It also fosters a best-practice approach, ensuring that qualitative research is epistemologically sound while reflecting the values and beliefs of the diverse communities within which research is conducted.
This new edition, featuring an international range of authors, also addresses new and cutting-edge research methodologies, including Indigenous methodologies, netnography, the visual arts, and Big data. It is the ideal textbook for any student, practitioner, or researcher of occupational science and occupational therapy.
Chapter 1 - Introduction to The Second Edition
Shoba Nayar & Mandy Stanley
Chapter 2 -Tenets of Qualitative Research: Deepening Understandings
Mandy Stanley & Shoba Nayar
Chapter 3 - Connections, Disruptions and Transformations: Decolonizing Qualitative Research
Isla Emery-Whittington, Lana Draper and Chontel Gibson
Chapter 4 - Qualitative Descriptive: A Very Good Place to Start
Mandy Stanley
Chapter 5 - Grounded Theory
Kate D’Cruz & Shoba Nayar
Chapter 6 - Phenomenology
Kirk Reed
Chapter 7 - Case Study Methodology
Simon Leadley, Margaret Jones, & Clare Hocking
Chapter 8 - Narrative inquiry
Jens Schneider, Laetitia Zeeman, Natalie Edelman and Lee Price
Chapter 9 - Ethnography
Suzanne Huot & Anne-Cécile Delaisse
Chapter 10 - Critical Discourse Analysis
Debbie Laliberte Rudman & Silke Dennhardt
Chapter 11 - Participatory Action Research
Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-Thomas & Debbie Laliberte Rudman
Chapter 12 - Visual Methodologies: Photovoice in Focus
Eric Asaba, Melissa Park, Margarita Mondaca, & Debbie Laliberte-Rudman
Chapter 13 - Visual arts-based methodologies
Laura R. Bowman & Katie Mah
Chapter 14 - Community-Based Research
Roshan Galvaan & Pam Gretschel
Chapter 15 - Netnography
Amy Wallis
Chapter 16 - Qualitative Evidence Synthesis
Carolyn M Murray, Katie Robinson, & Mandy Stanley
Chapter 17 - Big Qualitative Data
Mandy Stanley
Chapter 18 - Best (or Better?) Practices
Shoba Nayar
Biography
Shoba Nayar is a New Zealand trained and registered occupational therapist. Since completing her PhD in occupational science, she has held various roles in academic institutions in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and India. Shoba currently works as an independent academic, offering consultation services to academic institutions and postgraduate students in the area of qualitative research.
Mandy Stanley is a Professor in the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. Mandy is a senior academic with an established program of funded research who has taught qualitative qualitative research to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and successfully supervised higher degree students writing qualitative theses and more than 30 Honours students.
