The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality

Uwe Flick is Senior Professor of Qualitative Research in Social Science and Education at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany. He is a trained psychologist and sociologist and received his PhD from the Freie Universitaet Berlin in 1988 and his Habilitation from the Technical University Berlin in 1994. He has been Professor of Qualitative Research at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany and at the University of Vienna, Austria. Previously, he was Adjunct Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Canada; a Lecturer in research methodology at the Freie Universitaet Berlin; a Reader and Assistant Professor in qualitative methods and evaluation at the Technical University Berlin; and Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Sociology at the Hannover Medical School. He has held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Cambridge University (UK), Memorial University of St John's (Canada), University of Lisbon (Portugal), Institute of Higher Studies in Vienna, in Italy and Sweden, and the School of Psychology at Massey University, Auckland (New Zealand). His main research interests are qualitative methods, social representations in the fields of individual and public health, vulnerability in fields like youth homelessness or (forced) migration and chronical illness in everyday live. He is the editor of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design (2 Vols.; Sage 2022). The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis (Sage, 2014), The SAGE Qualitative Research Kit (Sage, 2nd edn, 2018), A Companion to Qualitative Research (Sage, 2004), Psychology of the Social (Cambridge University Press, 1998). His most recent publications are the seventh edition of An Introduction to Qualitative Research (Sage, 2023), Doing Grounded Theory (Sage, 2018), Doing Triangulation and Mixed Methods (Sage, 2018), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection (editor, Sage, 2018), the third edition of Introducing Research Methodology - Thinking Your Way through Your Research Project (Sage, 2020) and Doing Interview Research - The Essential How To Guide (Sage 2022). In 2019, Uwe Flick received the Lifetime Award in Qualitative Inquiry at the 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Chapter 1: Qualitative Research Quality: Locating the Crossroads - Uwe Flick Part I: Philosophies and Epistemologies of Qualitative Research Quality Chapter 2: Thinking Ethically about Quality in Qualitative Feminist, Decolonial and Intersectional Research - Floretta Boonzaier Chapter 3: The Importance of Diversity for Qualitative Research Quality - Nicolas Schoengut-Grollmus and Maria-Alejandra Energici Chapter 4: Qualitative Research Quality in Indigenous Research and Evaluation - Fiona Cram Chapter 5: The transformative paradigm and cultural responsiveness: A dual approach to enhance quality in qualitative research - Tamarah Moss and Donna M. Mertens Chapter 6: Qualitative Research Quality in New Materialisms - Alejandra Energici and Nicolas Schoengut-Grollmus Part II: Disciplinary Discourses of Qualitative Research Quality Chapter 7: Varied Accounts of Quality and Rigor in Qualitative Research in Political Science - Aarie Glas, Alesha Porisky, and Colin Kuehl Chapter 8: The Politics of Quality, Rigour and Relevance in Qualitative Research in Psychology - Brett Bowman and Daniella Rafael Chapter 9: Qualitative Research in the Online Settings: Learning from the Field of Education - Safary Wa-Mbaleka and Christian E. Ekoto Chapter 10: Discourses of Qualitative Research Quality in Anthropology: Challenges of Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology - Akira Takada Chapter 11: A Critical Dialogue about Quality in Qualitative Nursing Research - Megan Aston and Danielle Macdonald Part III Qualitative Research Quality for Specific Approaches Chapter 12: Insuring Quality: The Power and Potential of Naturally Occurring Data in the Social - Jonathan Potter and Bogdana Huma Chapter 13: Searching for Quality in Qualitative Pluralist Research - Kerry Chamberlain Chapter 14: Qualitative Research Quality in Multimodal Research - Bella Dicks Chapter 15: For Qualitative Literacy: How to Assess the Effectiveness of Data Collection in Field Research - Mario Luis Small and Jessica Calarco Chapter 16: Qualities of Focus Groups within Different Forms of Research Practices - Jakob Demant and Bente Halkier Part IV Rethinking Qualitative Research Quality for Specific Methods and Data Chapter 17: Qualitative Thematic Analysis beyond Description - Karin Olson Chapter 18: Research Quality in Participatory Visual Research - Jessica Mesman, Katherine Carroll, Aileen Collier, Suyin Hor, and Rick Iedema Chapter 19: Qualitative Research Quality in Social Media Research - Frauke Zeller and Justine Woods Chapter 20: Embedding Quality in Qualitative Mixed Method Research - Elisabeth Creamer Chapter 21: Quality in Big Qualitative Research - Kathy Mills and Luke Rowe Part V Rethinking Strategies for Quality in Qualitative Research Chapter 22: Reflexivity for Qualitative Research Quality and the Quality of Reflexivity - Audrey Alejandro and Alexander Stoffel Chapter 23: Reflexive Practice in Qualitative Research: Embracing Tension, Discomfort and Ambiguity - Jennifer Mitchell, Nicholas Boettcher, and Bonnie Lashewicz Chapter 24: Analytic Induction and the Quality of Qualitative Research - Martyn Hammersley Chapter 25: Advancing Qualitative Research Quality with Member Check - Linda Birt and Eleanor Wilson Chapter 26: Research Quality in and through Qualitative Secondary Analysis - Maureen Haaker Chapter 27: Generalizations in Qualitative Research - Staffan Larsson Part VI Rethinking Criteria for Quality in Qualitative Research Chapter 28: Clarifying Criteria: Functions, Standards, and Indicators - Martyn Hammersley Chapter 29: The Concepts and Practices of Validity in Qualitative Research - Joseph A. Maxwell Chapter 30: Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research: Reconsidering Replication - Michael G. Pratt, Tine Koehler, Catherine Welch and Maria Rumyantseva Chapter 31: Setting up the Tent Poles: Revisiting and Extending the Big-Tent Model for Qualitative Quality - Rebecca Leach, Corey Reutlinger, Chandler, Marr, Marco Dehnert, and Sarah J. Tracy Chapter 32: A Critical Approach to Qualitative Research Guidelines: From Pragmatic Posture to Epistemological and Theoretical Reflection - Marie Santiago-Delefosse and Kerry Chamberlain Part VII Extending Contexts and Challenges for Qualitative Research Quality (6/7) Chapter 33: Funding: Constructing New, and Refracting Existing, Understandings of Quality in Qualitative Inquiry - Julianne Cheek Chapter 34: Quality in Qualitative Research across Cultural Communities - Carolin Demuth Chapter 35: Qualitative Research Quality in South African Psychology - Sumaya Laher and Sherianne Kramer Chapter 36: Qualitative Research Quality in Latin American Vulnerable and Precarious Contexts - Alejandra Energici, Alemka Tomicic and Nicolas Schoengut Chapter 37: Quality of Qualitative Research in the Asian Context - Arcelli H. Rosario and Pavel Zubkov Chapter 38: Indigenous Mixed Methods - Bramwell Walela Koyabe