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Rather than providing a step-by-step guide to the use of visual methods, the authors draw on their experience of visual research to provide critical accounts of its use in the field, its potential for unlocking otherwise unseen places, spaces and social action, and as a basis for the generation of conceptual and theoretical insight.

This volume is one of a series of research annuals on qualitative research designed to take up issues and debates in this area that relate to methodology, the relationship between data collection and data analysis, and other topics.

Focuses on the learning experience of a group of researchers conducting their first major study for a PhD. The essays deal with such issues as the role of personal experience, the collection of data through the management of field relations, the analysis of data, and the writing process.

This volume is one of a series of research annuals on qualitative research designed to take up issues and debates in this area that relate to methodology, the relationship between data collection and data analysis, and other topics.

Featuring chapters that explore the interrelationship of qualitative methodologies and development theory, policy and practice, this book demonstrates the importance of placing qualitative methodologies within their conceptual, practical and political contexts. It asks questions of development research.

This volume is one of a series of research annuals on qualitative research designed to take up issues and debates in this area that relate to methodology, the relationship between data collection and data analysis, and other topics.

Advocates a 'pragmatic renaissance' within qualitative research - a systematic approach to conducting qualitative research and representing the findings. This book includes chapters that showcase the utility of qualitative research by providing theoretical, methodological and empirical insights into real life research.

Addresses continuities and innovations within the ethnographic canon. This title uses Hammersley's (1991) book "What's Wrong with Ethnography" to open and situate the debate, and engages with contemporary debates and arguments on both sides of the Atlantic.

Offers a theoretical and empirical perspective on the value, potential and contribution that qualitative research methodologies bring to the analysis of housing policy issues within an international context. This book also includes discussion of specific methodological challenges and ethical dilemmas faced by researchers.

This book examines and engages with the ambivalence of digitization, illuminating the diverse ways in which researchers approach, negotiate, understand and interpret objects and practices of digital research.

In recent years researchers have begun to reflect on gender identity and how this impacts on the creation of successful qualitative research. In this volume contributors explore these issues by reflecting on their own studies and research careers and address how important or unimportant gender has been in building research relationships.

This book explores recent developments in Institutional Ethnography (IE) and offers reflective accounts on how IE is being utilised and understood in social research. IE is a sociological sub-discipline developed by Dorothy E. Smith that seeks to explicate the textual mediation of people's everyday experiences in their local sites of being.

This volume explores ethnographic projects that were planned but never happened, and reports on the methodological lessons researchers can learn, as well as how they can gain fresh energy and social science insight from apparent rejection.

Ethics in Social Research

Contributors to this edited collection argue for an emotional rebellion in the academic world, arguing that the presentation of research as 'objective' conceals the subject positions of researchers and the emotional imperatives that often drive research.