Research Issues

1. The 9 chapters of this introduction provides practical approaches to action research, evaluation, the collection of data and its analysis set within a broad Introduction to Qualitative Research - it is appropriate for beginners at undergraduate and masters level, or anyone who wants to undertake workplace research based enquiry learning employing qualitative research methods. References to to take the next steps in undertaking qualitative research by Schostak can be seen here.
2. This links provides a basic, brief introduction to writing qualitative research. It was developed for a masters level course but can be used as a quick checklist for writing up research generally. Research assignment, dissertation, and thesis checklist for writing up
3. Checklist of Theories and Terms This checklist provides a quick introduction to some key terms employed in qualitative research.
4. Narrative as a Vehicle for Research Narrative has recently been increasingly employed as a way of representing qualitative research data. Antoher example can be seen here.
5. Metholological Appendix To The ACE PROJECT The appendix, although incomplete, sketches a way of employing qualitative research to evaluate organisations and programmes, drawing upon a critical realist approach (see also link 6 below). The ACE project was a major national evaluation of nursing and midwifery programmes in the UK, funded by the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visitors.
6. Critiquing Critical Realism Critical realism has become an increasingly important perspective for qualitative researchers. This paper provides a critical introduction to some of the issues.
7. A day with Jacko. An experience of fieldwork in school This was a very early fieldwork account of Schostak's - written as a doctoral student in about 1980. It was an attempt to represent the experience employing a narrative framework and then susing this as a basis for analyses.
8. Interviewing – Creating the Space for Views This was written at about the same time as Schostak's book on interviewing.
9. Addendum to Jill Schostak's doctoral thesis: [Ad]dressing Methodologies. Tracing the Self In Significant Slips: Shadow Dancing. (The Addendum provides a discussion of intertextuality, deconstruction and poststructuralist forms of writing)
10. Radical Methodologies – social justice, judgement, knowledge and education This paper was written about the same time as his book with Jill Schostak on Radical Research methodologies. Radical research draws upon the qualitative research traditions but also includes a political perspective. Essentially, it argues, the act of research is political. This then has implications for designing research and carrying out any action based upon research 'evidence'.
11. Truth In Particular And General: Doing Radical Research Under ‘Normal’ Circumstances.
12. 'Researching and representing wrongs, injuries and disagreements: exploring strategies for radical research'
13. notes on the notion of ontology and its relevance for research methodology
14. A range of philosophical positions that may be adopted by a researcher

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