PART 1 BACKGROUND TO QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ; 1 METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS AND SAMPLING IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ; 2 RIGOUR AND ETHICS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ; PART 2 TYPES OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS ; 3 THE IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWING METHOD ; 4 FOCUS GROUPS ; 5 UNOBTRUSIVE METHODS ; 6 NARRATIVE ENQUIRY METHODOLOGY: LIFE AND ORAL HISTORY, LIFE STORY AND BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH ; 7 MEMORY-WORK ; 8 ETHNOGRAPHY ; 9 PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH ; 10 QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY RESEARCH ; 11 GROUNDED THEORY RESEARCH ; PART 3 MANAGING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ; 12 MAKING SENSE OF QUALITATIVE DATA: THE ANALYSIS PROCESS ; 13 WRITING A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PROPOSAL ; 14 WRITING A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH REPORT ; PART 4 APPLICATIONS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ; 15 RESEARCHING THE 'VULNERABLE' ; 16 CONDUCTING CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH QUALITATIVELY ; 17 GOING ONLINE: DOING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN CYBERSPACE ; 18 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: NEW DIRECTIONS ; GLOSSARY ; REFERENCES ; INDEX