Doing Qualitative Research in Psychology

A Practical Guide
3. Revised Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5296-9351-5
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 242 mm

Looking to use qualitative methods for your psychology research?

This book takes a unique approach to showing you how. Its expert contributors use the same dataset to illustrate six commonly used qualitative approaches, including thematic analysis, interpretative phenomenological analysis and narrative analysis. Demonstrating the nuances of these different approaches, the book offers clear guidelines on how to actually do qualitative analysis.

This fully-updated third edition:

- Includes new chapters surveying contemporary qualitative research methods and diving deeper into discourse analysis and discursive psychology;

- Adds a new focus group dataset and chapter on this popular method of data collection;

- Enables you to engage in qualitative research that is theoretically-informed, ethical, reflexive and of high quality.

This book is the perfect companion for any undergraduate or postgraduate student conducting qualitative research in psychology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sullivan, Cath

Riley, Sarah

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Riley, Sarah
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.

Sullivan, Cath
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).