Innovation in Mixed Methods Research
A Practical Guide to Integrative Thinking with Complexity
- Cheryl N. Poth - University of Alberta, Canada
Winner of the 2020 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association.
Explaining both why and how to use mixed methods for discovering solutions to complex research problems, this guide gives readers the tools to adapt approaches to suit their own research conditions. Written in a warm, encouraging tone and packed with helpful diagrams and visual organizers, it provides an easy-to-follow map to the mixed methods process, covering everything from ‘what is mixed methods research?’ to framing, integrating, and describing a complexity-sensitive mixed methods approach.
Features include:
- Key questions to navigate the important concepts of each chapter
- Practice alerts to provide practical tips on working in the field
- Chapter check-ins to assess development of key skills
- Further reading to expand and deepen knowledge of mixed methods practices
- An annotated glossary to get to grips with foundational terms and revise for exams
Supported throughout by real-world examples and advice from the author and other mixed methods experts, this book helps readers succeed in their projects and think innovatively about the methods they use.
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This text tackles the challenges of designing and undertaking research that is not suited to traditional, tried and tested methods. By exploring why innovative methods are a necessity for studying the complex world we live in, and considering the potential capacity and scope of these, the author encourages researchers to push the boundaries mixed methods research. An insightful and timely text for research in the social sciences.
I have welcomed this book as a strong support to help my students experience and understand that methods are not used against one another but together in order to get rich and enriching results from a broad research. They can hence become fully skilled researchers, grounded into the methods of the 21st century and enjoying the flexibility allowed by the use of mixed methods.
Using this book as a handbook to prepare lectures and use it as a recommended text for research methodology .
Good overall book enable students to follow the different methods of research
This is not a text I would necessarily recommend to every student, but for those keen to work with mixed methods. requiring complex skills base, I would refer them here. Very practical insights given.
A clearly presented publication enabling students to follow a mixed methods approach in their research study.
This book is an excellent resource to support students in their understanding to develop skills of mixed methods; further developing student knowledge of the steps towards complex mixed method approaches.
