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The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality
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The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality

Edited by:
  • Uwe Flick - Freie Universtität Berlin, Germany


January 2025 | 624 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This Sage Handbook presents an interdisciplinary collection of chapters exploring how to assess the quality of collecting and analysing qualitative data, while maintaining a focus on diversity, digital and critical approaches. The Handbook considers essential questions such as what is good qualitative research? What makes qualitative research good research? And, how can we make qualitative research better research?

Contributions come from a wide array of experts, and highlight answers to questions from various disciplinary and geographical areas; from mixed methods to multimodal and online research, from specific types of data and methods to specific target groups, and from theoretical and epistemological contexts to those where funding has an impact on how research is done and assessed.

Qualitative research has evolved in many respects in recent decades and has grown increasingly multidisciplinary. Research in general is facing new challenges around how to take diversity and decolonisation into account in what researchers do, as well as how to produce and communicate qualitative research quality. This Handbook offers a timely overview of such developments, and will support researchers involved in planning, designing, doing and evaluating qualitative research in developing an increased sensitivity for contemporary debates and challenges in the field.


Part I Philosophies and Epistemologies of Qualitative Research Quality

Part II Disciplinary Discourses of Qualitative Research Quality

Part III Qualitative Research Quality for Specific Approaches

Part IV Rethinking Qualitative Research Quality for Specific Methods and Data

Part V Rethinking Strategies for Quality in Qualitative Research

Part VI Rethinking Criteria for Quality in Qualitative Research

Part VII Extending Contexts and Challenges for Qualitative Research Quality


Uwe Flick
Chapter 1: Qualitative Research Quality: Locating the Crossroads
 
Part I: Philosophies and Epistemologies of Qualitative Research Quality
Floretta Boonzaier
Chapter 2: Thinking Ethically about Quality in Qualitative Feminist, Decolonial and Intersectional Research
Nicolás Schöngut-Grollmus and María-Alejandra Energici
Chapter 3: The Importance of Diversity for Qualitative Research Quality
Fiona Cram
Chapter 4: Qualitative Research Quality in Indigenous Research and Evaluation
Tamarah Moss and Donna M. Mertens
Chapter 5: The transformative paradigm and cultural responsiveness: A dual approach to enhance quality in qualitative research
Alejandra Energici and Nicolás Schöngut-Grollmus
Chapter 6: Qualitative Research Quality in New Materialisms
 
Part II: Disciplinary Discourses of Qualitative Research Quality
Aarie Glas, Alesha Porisky, and Colin Kuehl
Chapter 7: Varied Accounts of Quality and Rigor in Qualitative Research in Political Science
Brett Bowman and Daniella Rafael
Chapter 8: The Politics of Quality, Rigour and Relevance in Qualitative Research in Psychology
Safary Wa-Mbaleka and Christian E. Ekoto
Chapter 9: Qualitative Research in the Online Settings: Learning from the Field of Education
Akira Takada
Chapter 10: Discourses of Qualitative Research Quality in Anthropology: Challenges of Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology
Megan Aston and Danielle Macdonald
Chapter 11: A Critical Dialogue about Quality in Qualitative Nursing Research
 
Part III Qualitative Research Quality for Specific Approaches
Jonathan Potter and Bogdana Huma
Chapter 12: Insuring Quality: The Power and Potential of Naturally Occurring Data in the Social
Kerry Chamberlain
Chapter 13: Searching for Quality in Qualitative Pluralist Research
Bella Dicks
Chapter 14: Qualitative Research Quality in Multimodal Research
Mario Luis Small and Jessica Calarco
Chapter 15: For Qualitative Literacy: How to Assess the Effectiveness of Data Collection in Field Research
Jakob Demant and Bente Halkier
Chapter 16: Qualities of Focus Groups within Different Forms of Research Practices
 
Part IV Rethinking Qualitative Research Quality for Specific Methods and Data
Karin Olson
Chapter 17: Qualitative Thematic Analysis beyond Description
Jessica Mesman, Katherine Carroll, Aileen Collier, Suyin Hor, and Rick Iedema
Chapter 18: Research Quality in Participatory Visual Research
Frauke Zeller and Justine Woods
Chapter 19: Qualitative Research Quality in Social Media Research
Elisabeth Creamer
Chapter 20: Embedding Quality in Qualitative Mixed Method Research
Kathy Mills and Luke Rowe
Chapter 21: Quality in Big Qualitative Research
 
Part V Rethinking Strategies for Quality in Qualitative Research
Audrey Alejandro and Alexander Stoffel
Chapter 22: Reflexivity for Qualitative Research Quality and the Quality of Reflexivity
Jennifer Mitchell, Nicholas Boettcher, and Bonnie Lashewicz
Chapter 23: Reflexive Practice in Qualitative Research: Embracing Tension, Discomfort and Ambiguity
Martyn Hammersley
Chapter 24: Analytic Induction and the Quality of Qualitative Research
Linda Birt and Eleanor Wilson
Chapter 25: Advancing Qualitative Research Quality with Member Check
Maureen Haaker
Chapter 26: Research Quality in and through Qualitative Secondary Analysis
Staffan Larsson
Chapter 27: Generalizations in Qualitative Research
 
Part VI Rethinking Criteria for Quality in Qualitative Research
Martyn Hammersley
Chapter 28: Clarifying Criteria: Functions, Standards, and Indicators
Joseph A. Maxwell
Chapter 29: The Concepts and Practices of Validity in Qualitative Research
Michael G. Pratt, Tine Köhler, Catherine Welch and Maria Rumyantseva
Chapter 30: Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research: Reconsidering Replication
Rebecca Leach, Corey Reutlinger, Chandler, Marr, Marco Dehnert, and Sarah J. Tracy
Chapter 31: Setting up the Tent Poles: Revisiting and Extending the Big-Tent Model for Qualitative Quality
Marie Santiago-Delefosse and Kerry Chamberlain
Chapter 32: A Critical Approach to Qualitative Research Guidelines: From Pragmatic Posture to Epistemological and Theoretical Reflection
 
Part VII Extending Contexts and Challenges for Qualitative Research Quality (6/7)
Julianne Cheek
Chapter 33: Funding: Constructing New, and Refracting Existing, Understandings of Quality in Qualitative Inquiry
Carolin Demuth
Chapter 34: Quality in Qualitative Research across Cultural Communities
Sumaya Laher and Sherianne Kramer
Chapter 35: Qualitative Research Quality in South African Psychology
Àlejandra Energici, Alemka Tomicic and Nicolás Schöngut
Chapter 36: Qualitative Research Quality in Latin American Vulnerable and Precarious Contexts
Arcelli H. Rosario and Pavel Zubkov
Chapter 37: Quality of Qualitative Research in the Asian Context
Bramwell Walela Koyabe
Chapter 38: Indigenous Mixed Methods

This is undoubtedly an important, long-awaited and necessary book for qualitative research. Recognizing the complexity of the issues involved in qualitative research quality, this book shows the variety of answers, by situating them in the theoretical and epistemological backgrounds where they have emerged. It also provides researchers and students with the tools to think through their own research practices in a more mature and enlightened way. Certainly a must!

Sabine Caillaud
Associate Professor of Social Psychology, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France

Research quality is the prime consideration for any methodology and in qualitative research it is also one of the most elusive and hotly contested. This impressive handbook, the latest from Uwe Flick, an international authority on qualitative methods, is contemporary – with themes of diversity, decolonisation, and digital resources threaded throughout the contributions – and closely reflects the increasing multidisciplinary presence of qualitative research. Compelling scholarship and the handbook’s genuinely global reach make this a crucial resource for students and practitioners of qualitative research across the social sciences and for those who fund or evaluate qualitative studies. 

Nigel Fielding
Professor Emeritus, University of Surrey, UK

As ever this is an immensely valuable edited collection expertly steered by Uwe Flick, a gift to the qualitative research community. Established arguments and new directions coexist seamlessly together. Anyone seeking to gain a strong contemporaneous sense of “how to locate the crossroads” of scholarly reflections bearing on qualitative research will not be disappointed by this Handbook’s emphasis on rethinking and extending knowledge and pedagogy.  I am also very encouraged to dig deeper than on first reading to appraise and anticipate where issues covered are demonstrably beneficial for practicing researchers keen to capitalise on this set of authors’ efforts and direction-taking.

Karen Henwood
Professor School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

Professor Uwe Flick is a leading figure in qualitative inquiry who has published several excellent collections that are now seminal in the field. His current venture is masterful. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality sets new standards for assessing quality in the field with a diverse collection of chapters that offer something for everyone engaged in qualitative inquiry. This handbook offers an invaluable resource for emerging and established scholars and practitioners.

Darrin Hodgetts
Professor of Societal Psychology, Massey University (Albany), NZ

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