Tom O' Donoghue is Associate Professor of Education and Deputy Dean of the Faculty at the University of Western Australia's Graduate School of Education.Keith Punch is Professor of Education at the University of Western Australia.

• 1. The case for students' accounts of qualitative educational research in action Thomas A. O'Donoghue & Keith E. Punch 2. Grounded theory illuminates interpersonal relationships: an educator's perspective Elizabeth Tuettemann 3. Reflecting on the value and use of the edited topical life history: a research approach Beverley Ward 4. Phenomenology: the quest for meaning Lisa Catherine Ehrich 5. Methodological framings for a policy trajectory study Lesley Vidovich 6. Reflections on a qualitative investigation of critical literacies and the teaching of English Peter Stewart & Marnie O'Niell 7. Meaning and method: using metaphors in qualitative research Helen Wildy 8. A research narrative: confronting the tensions of a methodological struggle Tania Aspland 9. Reflections on a social semiotic approach to discourse analysis in educational research Anne Chapman 10. The route less travelled: reflections on research for the Phd by publication Anthony Potts

'...this text is a necessary and welcome addition to standard research methods and research methodologies texts.' - Joan Hannafin, University College Cork 'It is extraordinary that nobody has thought of this before. Professors O'Donoghue and Punch are to be commended on their insight.' - Tanya Fitzgerald, UNITECH Institute of Technology, New Zealand 'This approach gives the reader a unique insight into the actual doing of qualitative research.' - Richard Morehouse, Viterbo University, Wisconsin