Our qualitative textbook is coming soon: what's inside?

In advance of us releasing our textbook, Making Qualitative Research Happen, we are offering a sneak preview of what you'll get if you buy our book.

As you will see, our book follows the same pathway as our online course for qualitative research, but goes into much more detail at each stage. The book will make it easier to make crucial decisions at each step of your research project, as well as quickly reference methodological issues that are relevant to whichever stage of research you're currently on. Like with all our resources, we try to do away with the jargon so we can reach our goal of making qualitative research accessible to everyone.

Making Qualitative Research Happen: Table of Contents

Part 1: Epistemology and meta issues

1. Why do qualitative research?
2. Positioning ourselves as researchers: ontology and epistemology
3. Political paradigms of research

Part 2: Design and plan

1. Developing your research question
2. Organisational and practical considerations for research planning
3. Watch out! Researcher landing: Academic extractivism and the exploitation of 'the Other' in the pursuit of 'knowledge'

Part 3: Gather data

1. Gathering qualitative data
2. Core qualitative data gathering methods
3. Other forms of data collection: secondary data and creative methods

Part 4: Manage and handle data

1. Preparing data for analysis
2. Software and tools
3. What's occurring in the Qual-AI space and why it matters
4. Managing and handling data in Quirkos
5. Storing and collaborative qualitative analysis in Quirkos

Part 5: Analyse and transform data

1. Starting out with your qualitative analysis
2. Analytical approaches
3. Coding, organising and collaborating on qualitative analysis
4. Analysing and transforming data in Quirkos

Part 6: Write and report

1. Writing up and sharing your qualitative research
2. Writing up with Quirkos

That's 20 chapters total and 370 pages, covering all stages of a qualitative research project. Some writing has been expanded, updated and polished from our existing learning resources. We will always keep our online resources free to access, but this textbook is a convenient all-in-one resource which updates and fills in gaps we are commonly requested to cover. There are many entirely new sections by expert contributors, including: creative methods, decolonial and postcolonial research, narrative analysis and how AI is changing the qualitative research landscape.

We want everyone to feel like they can understand and do qualitative research, and make it easier to train as a researcher while using our software. So just like our philosophy with Quirkos, we will offer a low cost for access, with discounts if you are a researcher based in a low or middle-income country, or if you are purchasing Quirkos and our textbook together.

Register for blog updates, and we'll email you as soon as the book is available to purchase!