Hi Roslyn
I work in educational and design research and routinely use mixed methods as do my research students. I am interested in the journal you edit on. I am on a couple of editorial boards myself
It,s probably worth reading a little about the pragmatism underlying mixed method research and also consider the ends of doing this. Thus, an exclusive focus on qual or quant seems to have missed the point that for many contexts what is needed are m…
For novices and not so there is also Social Research methods by Bryman and a section which addresses case study. There are, of course, a number of good articles dealing with specific issues, including that by Flyvberg. I have a piece coming out in E…
Mapping Dangerous Spaces
Monday 1 June 2009
British Library Conference Centre
The draft programme for this interdisciplinary postgraduate and new researcher symposium is now available (http://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/events/mds/mapping-dangerous-sp…
Discusses the following
Misunderstanding 1: General, theoretical (context-independent) knowledge is
more valuable than concrete, practical (context-dependent) knowledge.
Misunderstanding 2: One cannot generalize on the basis of an individual case;
t…
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