- Essentials of Transdisciplinary Research: Using Problem-Centered Methodologies
- Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research
- Method Meets Art: Arts-based Research Practice
- Iconic Events: Media, Politics, and Power in Retelling History
- The Practice of Qualitative Research, Second Edition
- Feminist Research Practice: a Primer
- Handbook of Emergent Methods
- Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations
- Emergent Methods in Social Research
- Approaches to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice
Essentials of Transdisciplinary Research: Using Problem-Centered Methodologies (Left Coast Press, 2011) presents an overview of transdisciplinarity as a problem-centered approach to research. Transdisciplinarity is a social justice oriented approach to research and may provide a pathway for addressing major contemporary challenges such as sustainability, violence, unequal development and health and well-being. Essentials of Transdisciplinary Research provides a user-friendly guide to the key principles and research design strategies needed for building a transdisciplinary project. This book is ideal for researchers across the disciplines, graduate students designing theses projects and undergraduate courses in research methods, qualitative research, mixed methods, service learning or community-based research as well as any courses that emphasize critical thinking, problem solving, problem-based learning and/or research. Essentials of Transdisciplinary Research is essential reading for researchers and students in the social and behavioral sciences.
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Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research (Oxford University Press, 2011) provides a user-friendly introduction to oral history research in the social sciences. Oral History focuses on writing and evaluating oral history research and includes numerous examples of oral history write-ups, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Although the book emphasizes oral history research, it is also an excellent resource for qualitative researchers engaged in any kind of interview or field research, for researchers and students looking for templates for writing-up qualitative research and for anyone reading published qualitative research studies and looking for strategies to evaluate them.
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Method Meets Art: Arts-based Research Practice (Guilford Press, 2009) presents the first comprehensive introduction to arts-based research (ABR) practices. Each of the six major ABR genres—narrative inquiry, poetry, music, performance, dance, and visual art— is covered in chapters that introduce key concepts and tools and present an exemplary research article by a leading ABR practitioner. This user-friendly book includes practical guidance for developing a project, check lists to guide methodological decision-making, discussion questions and recommended print and online resources. Method Meets Art has been endorsed by leaders in the field including Carl Bagley, Carol Bailey, Lynn Butler-Kisber, Ronald Chenail, Carolyn Ellis, Monica Prendergast, Johnny Saldana and Candace Stout who notes: “This is the best treatment of arts-based research practice I have seen.” Method Meets Art has also been very well reviewed. Here are some examples: “Leavy clearly is a masterful writer with an encyclopedic knowledge of science and the arts.”— Qualitative Social Work; “An excellent introductory text for arts-based research (ABR)… It is an excellent resource for students, for beginning researchers, and for academicians in the arts, literature, and social and behavioral sciences.”— APA PsycCRITIQUES; “A breath of fresh air”— International Journal of Education and the Arts.
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Iconic Events: Media, Politics, and Power in Retelling History (Lexington Books, 2007) examines the processes of collective that memory surrounding Titanic, the Shirtwaist Factory fire, Pearl Harbor, the Columbine shootings, and September 11th. Iconic Events offers historical sketches of these events followed by an analysis of three interpretive phases that serve to mold public perception of these events: journalistic representations, political appropriations and pop culture adaptations. Iconic Events may be of interest to a general readership and can be used in courses in American studies, communications, history and sociology. Titanic enthusiasts may be particularly interested in the robust coverage of that event. One reviewer notes: “… the compelling narrative of that particular event [Titanic], together with the fascinating discussion of how that event was used by various political groups to attack and/or defend women’s suffrage, makes for absorbing reading”— Amy Mattson Launters, JHistory. Iconic Events was also recommended by the National Library Association Choice Reviews, March 2008 and has been endorsed by sociologists and historians including Stephen Pfohl, Eve Spangler and Elwood Watson.
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The Practice of Qualitative Research, Second Edition (SAGE Publications, 2011) offers a step-by-step approach to designing, conducting and writing-up qualitative and mixed methods research. This popular book is a student-centered text appropriate for undergraduate and beginning graduate level students in research methods or qualitative research courses in the social and behavioral sciences. Pedagogical features include: behind-the-scenes boxes written by leading researchers in the field, glossaries of key terms, discussion questions, suggested online resources and relevant journals. Ancillary materials are available online for students and instructors including (Hot links to a variety of qualitative & mixed methods SAGE journal articles; Power Point presentations for each chapter; Test questions including multiple choice, true/false and essay questions). Wes Clarkson refers to this book as an “excellent textbook.”
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Feminist Research Practice: a Primer (SAGE Publications, 2007) is the only feminist text to explicitly link theory and research practice. Feminist Research Practice offers coverage of a range of feminist perspectives (including empiricism, standpoint, postmodernism and post-structuralism) as well as feminist approaches to research methodology (including ethnography, interview, focus group interview, oral history, content analysis, survey research and mixed methods). Feminist Research Practice is appropriate for a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in research methods, theory, women’s studies and feminism. Feminist Research Practice has been endorsed by celebrated feminist scholar Sandra Harding (UCLA) who notes: The many voices of feminist social researchers here provide a welcome focus on inquiry practices. They sort through more than three decades of social research as well as reflections on it. They illuminate these analyses with “tales from the field.” This is a valuable text for graduate and undergraduate social science researchers.”
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The Handbook of Emergent Methods (Guilford Press, 2008, now available in paperback) is the first book comprehensively examining emergent or innovative qualitative and quantitative theories and methods across the social and behavioral sciences. This handbook provides scholars and students with a variety of ways to retool their research choices in chapters written by leading researchers writing on the cutting-edge of methodology. The Handbook of Emergent Methods has been endorsed by renowned researchers including Bruce Berg, Davydd Greenwood, Valerie Janesick, Ruthellen Josselson and Janice Morse. The handbook has also been very well reviewed, for example, one reviewer notes: “Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Patricia Leavy have assembled a very interesting set of chapters, and even experienced researchers will find much to learn about emergent methods and much to consider about how they might use these in their own work.” — Sex Roles. The Handbook of Emergent Methods was also highly recommended by the National Library Association Choice Reviews, 2009.
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Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations (Haymarket Books, 2008) explores the emerging theoretical work seeking to describe hybrid identities while also illustrating the application of these theories in empirical research. The book provides theoretical and research chapters on the following types of hybrid identities: transnational, double consciousness, gender, diaspora, third space, and the internal colony. Hybrid Identities is set apart by its critical sociological perspective and diverse and international list of contributors. Hybrid Identities may be useful for scholars and students interested in globalization, race and ethnicity and the issues surrounding identity.
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Emergent Methods in Social Research (SAGE publications, 2006) combines original, in-depth introductions with previously published and original contributor chapters on new and cutting-edge methods and methodologies. One reviewer notes: “All of the book’s chapters are written with enthusiasm and an interest to stimulate researchers to make new uses of traditional data gathering methods and/or develop new ideas.” — Danuta A. Nitecki, Library and Information Science Research.
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Approaches to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2003) combines original, in-depth introductions with theoretical and empirical chapters written by diverse researchers. Approaches to Qualitative Research is designed to help students develop a holistic understanding of the qualitative research process and will be of value in the range of undergraduate and graduate courses in research methods and qualitative research. Approaches to Qualitative Research was named a “Desired Book in Qualitative Research” by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (National Institutes of Health) 2007.
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