Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design (International Student Edition)

John W. Creswell, PhD, is a Professor of Family Medicine and Senior Research Scientist ofthe Michigan Mixed Methods Program. He has authored numerous articles and 34 books onmixed methods research, qualitative research, and research design. While at the University ofNebraska–Lincoln, he held the Clifton Endowed Professor Chair, served as Director of theMixed Methods Research Office, co-founded SAGE’s Journal of Mixed Methods Research, andwas an Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan and a consultant tothe Veterans Administration Health Services Research Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He wasa Senior Fulbright Scholar to South Africa in 2008 and to Thailand in 2012. In 2011, he co-leda National Institutes of Health working group on the “best practices of mixed methods researchin the health sciences,” served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard’s School of Public Health andreceived an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. In 2014, he wasthe founding President of the Mixed Methods International Research Association. In 2015, hejoined the staff of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan to Co-Direct the MichiganMixed Methods Program. In 2017, he coauthored the American Psychological Association“standards” on qualitative and mixed methods research. The fourth edition of this book onQualitative Inquiry & Research Design won the 2018 McGuffey Longevity Award from the U.S.Textbook & Academic Authors Association. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he gave virtualkeynote presentations to many countries from his office in Osaka, Japan. Updates on his workcan be found on his website at johnwcreswell.com.Cheryl N. Poth, PhD, is a Professor in the Faculty of Education and faculty member of theresearch-intensive Centre for Research and Applied Measurement and Evaluation at theUniversity of Alberta. In this role, she has developed and taught graduate-level research methodsand program evaluation courses in addition to supervising and mentoring students, faculty,and local as well as global community members in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodsresearch. She is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, three books as well asnumerous book chapters. Her work has been recognized by the American Educational ResearchAssociation with the Division D Significant Contributions to Research Methodology Awardin 2023 (with Peggy Shannon-Baker) and by the Textbook & Academic Authors Associationwith the Most Promising New Textbook Award in 2020 and the McGuffey Longevity Awardfor Qualitative Research book in 2018 (with John Creswell). She served as Editor of the SAGEHandbook of Mixed Methods Research (2023) and as Guest Coeditor of several journal specialissues, including the International Journal of Qualitative Methods. In addition to more than40 invited talks and 150 conference presentations, she has led research methods workshopswith diverse audiences on four continents. She served as an Advisory Board Member of the International Institute of Qualitative Methodology (2014–2020); the President of the MixedMethods International Research Association (2017–2018); a Research Fellow at the Universityof South Africa (2018–2020); a Helen Glass Scholar in the College of Nursing within the RadyFaculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba (2022); and as a MERIT VisitingProfessor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University (2023–2025). In 2009, shecofounded the interdisciplinary Alberta Clinical and Community-Based Evaluation ResearchTeam to advance innovative community–university research partnership supports for programplanning and impact assessments of service delivery for individuals with complex needs. Sheserves as the Methodologist on several cross-disciplinary research teams and has led federally,provincially, and locally funded research projects. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal ofMixed Methods Research and is an editorial board member of several journals. Updates on herwork can be found on her website at https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/cheryl-poth/.

• IntroductionPhilosophical Assumptions and Interpretive FrameworksDesigning a Qualitative StudyFive Qualitative Approaches to InquiryFive Different Qualitative StudiesIntroducing and Focusing the StudyData CollectionData Analysis and RepresentationWriting a Qualitative StudyStandards of Validation and Evaluation“Turning the Story” and Conclusion