Promoting Rigorous Research Using Innovative Qualitative Approaches

Promoting publication of rigorous qualitative research.

I n the basic sciences, investigators frequently conduct descriptive studies as a prelude to formulating and testing hypotheses. These discovery studies can be quite unbounded at the outset as investigators accumulate novel information that will serve as the building blocks for future studies. In the clinical sciences, descriptive studies are also common, but they are almost always based on dat...

Innovative Data Collection Strategies in Qualitative Research

This article provides an innovative meta-framework comprising strategies designed to guide qualitative data collection in the 21st century. We present a meta-framework comprising strategies for collecting data from interviews, focus groups, observations, and documents/material culture. We present a template for collecting nonverbal data during interviews and discuss the concept of debriefing th...

Informing change & promoting innovation through rigorous & collaborative research

Promoting Progress: A Qualitative Analysis of Creative and Innovative Production

For five years, I have been conducting interviews with United States artists and scientists in diverse fields, as well as with their lawyers and business partners. My goal in doing so was to learn how intellectual property functions in their professional lives devoted to creative and innovative work. The scholarly literature defending and explaining intellectual property in the United States is...

Telling stories: narrative approaches in qualitative research.

There is a new attention across disciplines to narrative knowing--the impulse to story life events into order and meaning. In this paper, narrative is presented as a framework for understanding the subject and interview data in qualitative research. Examples of narrative approaches are offered, narrative analyses are contrasted with other kinds of qualitative analyses, and truth in narratives i...