Some reflections on qualitative research

Teaching qualitative research methods: Some innovations and reflections on practice

This paper considers some of the problems inherent in teaching qualitative research methods within psychology. It stresses the use of a reflective approach to course design that aims to ‘emancipate’ students in their own study and research, as well as equipping them with a combination of practical and theoretical skills. In addition to a brief description of the course, I describe some innovati...

Qualitative Migration Research: Some New Reflections Six Years Later

The main purpose of this article is a brief presentation of the most crucial stages of a research process concerning migration of foreign workers in Greece. The research (within my doctoral studies at Sussex University, Brighton, UK) was undertaken for a period of almost nine months (1995-1996) in Athens, Greece. In this article I present some important dimensions of the multiple methods used (...

Reflections on the craft(ing) of qualitative research

It has become somewhat of a truism that qualitative research, and particularly fieldwork, cannot be taught but is best learnt in practice, out there, in the field. This can likely be traced to the early days of the Chicago School where students were sent out to study a tract of the census, or neighbourhood, at almost the outset of the course. This, of course, does not mean that the students wer...

How do we know? Reflections on qualitative research in diabetes.

E ach of us brings to our clinical encounters worldviews and behaviors shaped by a variety of cultural and psychoso-cial factors. In addition to having some of their views shaped in childhood, health care providers bring to their encounters a professional worldview that influences the way they interpret diabetes, explain its causes and progression, understand its symptoms, and orchestrate metho...

Heterocycles and Health : Some Research Reflections