Doing Qualitative Research in Psychology 3/e

Cath Sullivan (CPsychol, SFHEA) is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Lancashire, UK. She has taught qualitative research methods and supported other lecturers in teaching qualitative methods for over twenty years. Cath is a former Chair of the HEA's Special Interest Group on the Teaching of Qualitative Methods at Undergraduate Level and was on the committee of the Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society for 10 years. Her published work includes qualitative research papers and pieces about qualitative methodology. She is joint editor of Doing Your Qualitative Psychology Project (Sage, 2023). Sarah Riley is a Professor of Critical Health Psychology, at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand. She has a long history of teaching qualitative research methods and supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students using these methods in their research projects. She has published widely, including on qualitative methods, and is a former chair of the Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society and International Society for Critical Health Psychology. With Cath Sullivan, she co-edited Doing Your Qualitative Psychology Project (Sage, 2023) and also led a team at Massey to create the first open-access textbook in critical health psychology, Critical Health Psychology: Foundations, Approaches and Applications (2025) available on Pressbooks). She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, supporting other academics in their teaching journey, and in 2024 was awarded the Vice Chancellor Teaching Excellence Award at her University

Part I: Doing design Chapter 1: Introducing qualitative methods in psychology - Jo Brooks & Simon Goodman Chapter 2: Theory and method in qualitative psychology - Cath Sullivan Chapter 3: Research ethics in qualitative research - Nigel King & Cath Sullivan Chapter 4: Quality in qualitative research - Nollaig Frost, Deborah Bailey-Rodriguez, & Frauke Elichoaff Chapter 5: Conducting literature reviews - Cassandra Screti, Gemma Heath & Rachel Shaw Part II: Doing data collection Chapter 6: The interview in qualitative research - Nigel King & Siobhan Hugh-Jones Chapter 7: The focus group in qualitative research - Craig Owen, Christine Campbell & Emily McKendrick Chapter 8: Beyond interviews and focus groups: Alternative approaches to data collection - Stephen Gibson & Sarah Riley Chapter 9: Introducing our data sets - Stephen Gibson, Cath Sullivan & Craig Owen Part III: Doing data analysis: Practical examples Chapter 10: Thematic analysis - Leanne Etheridge & Cath Sullivan Chapter 11: Interpretative phenomenological analysis - William Day and Rachel Shaw Chapter 12: Narrative analysis - Deborah Rodriguez, Nollaig Frost & Frauke Elichoaff Chapter 13: Discourse analysis - Sarah Riley Chapter 14: Discursive psychology - Sally Wiggins Chapter 15: Grounded theory - Alasdair Gordon-Finlayson