Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (April 25, 2025) © 2025

  • Dennis Howitt University of Loughborough
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Table of contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements

Part 1. Background to qualitative methods in psychology

  1. What is qualitative research in psychology and was it really hidden?
  2. How qualitative methods developed in psychology: the qualitative revolution

Part 2 How to collect qualitative data

  1. Qualitative interviewing
  2. Focus groups
  3. Ethnography/participant observation

Part 3 Qualitative data analysis

  1. How to transcribe recordings
  2. 7 Thematic analysis
  3. 8 Using grounded theory
  4. 9 Social constructionist discourse analysis and discursive psychology
  5. 10 Conversation analysis
  6. 11 Foucauldian discourse analysis
  7. 12 Phenomenology
  8. 13 Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)
  9. 14 Narrative analysis

Part 4 Successful writing-up, ensuring quality and ethical clearance in qualitative research

  1. How to write a good qualitative report
  2. Ensuring quality in your research
  3. How to obtain ethical clearance for qualitative research
  4. Internet Mediated Qualitative Research
  5. Examples of qualitative report writing: learning to write good reports
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

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