Critical Issues in Qualitative Research Methods

Janice M. Morse, PhD (Nurs), PhD (Anthro), FAAN is a professor and Presidential Endowed Chair at the University of Utah College of Nursing, and Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada., from 1991-1996, she also held a position as professor at The Pennsylvania State University. From 1997-2007, she was the founding Director and Scientific Director of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta, founding editor for the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and Editor of the Qual Press monograph series. She remains the founding editor for Qualitative Health Research, (now in Volume 2, Sage1), is currently editor for the monograph series Developing Qualitative Inquiry, and The Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry (Left Coast Press). Her research programs are in the areas of suffering and comforting, preventing patient falls, and developing qualitative methods. In 2011, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry, was an inaugural inductee into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame (2010), the 5th recipient of the Episteme Award (also Sigma Theta Tau). She received awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Newcastle (Australia) and Athabasca University (Canada). She is the author of 460 articles and chapters and 19 books on qualitative research methods, suffering, comforting and patient falls.

• DialogueOn OriginsQualitative Research - Janice M MorseFact or Fantasy?DialogueOn Learning Qualitative MethodsAbstract Knowing - Katharyn A MayThe Case for Magic in MethodDialogueMore on Theory`Emerging from the Data′ - Janice M MorseThe Cognitive Processes of Analysis in Qualitative InquiryDialogueThe Democracy of InterpretationThe Proof Is in the Pottery - Margarete SandelowskiToward a Poetic for Qualitative InquiryDialogueOn Qualitatively Derived InterventionInside the Black Box - Janice M Swanson and Linda ChapmanTheoretical and Methodological Issues in Conducting Evaluation Research Using a Qualitative ApproachBasic Versus Applied EthnographyEvaluation Criteria and Critique of Qualitative Research Studies - Madeleine LeiningerDialogueGood Phenomenology is...The Richness of Phenomenology - Marilyn A RayPhilosophic, Theoretic and Methodologic ConcernsDialogueClarifying Phenomenological MethodsSchools of Phenomenology - Marlene Zichi Cohen and Anna OmeryImplications for ResearchDialogueOn Emic and EticStyles of Ethnography - Joyceen S BoyleDialogueSorting Out the Styles...On the Evaluation of Ethnographies - Majorie A MueckeDialogueMore on Muddling MethodsEroding Grounded Theory - Phyllis Noerager SternDialogueQuestions About Focus GroupsThe Group Effect in Focus Groups - Martha Ann CareyPlanning, Implementing, and Interpreting Focus Group ResearchDialogueUsing Videotaped DataUsing Videotaped Recordings in Qualitative Research - Joan L BottorffDialogueOn MentoringSecondary Analysis in Qualitative Research - Sally ThorneIssues and ImplicationsDialogueOn Writing It UpQualitative Research Methods From the Reviewer′s Perspective - Melanie DreherDialogueResearcher-Participant RelationshipsResearch and Therapeutic Interviews - Sally Hutchinson and Holly WilsonA Poststructuralist PerspectiveDialogueOn Being a Stranger in the FieldResearch Teams - Toni Tripp-Reimer et alPossibilities and Pitfalls in Collaborative Qualitative ResearchDialogueThe Politics of WritingEthical Issues in Ethnography - Juliene G LipsonDialogueSloppy SciencePromoting Academic Integrity in Qualitative Research - Kathleen A Knafl