Design Thinking and Research
In this research conversation with Janet Salmons, Julianne Cheek and Elise Øby discuss the importance of an iterative, design-thinking approach to research. They explain ideas from their new book, Research Design: Why Thinking About Design Matters.
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Research Design: Why Thinking About Design Matters: This text engages in a dialogue with the reader, providing a serious but accessible introduction to research design, for use as a guide when designing your own research or when reading the research of others. You can preview two chapters, and use the code COMMUNITY3 for a 20% discoung, valid worldwide until 31/03/24..
Also, Dr. Cheek mentions the journal Qualitative Health Research, where she serves as the editor. This international, interdisciplinary journal contains many articles of interest to qualitative researchers, regardless of whether they are studying issues or settings in health care. While many of the articles are open-access, some will require library access.
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Julianne Cheek and Elise Øby, co-authors of the book Research Design: Why Thinking About Design Matters, discuss how to make decisions about what qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods data to collect and how to do so. This post is the third of a three-part series of posts that feature ten author interviews.
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Julianne Cheek and Elise Øby, co-authors of the book Research Design: Why Thinking About Design Matters, discuss how to make decisions about methodology in this collection of video interviews. This post is the second of a three-part series of posts that feature ten author interviews.
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Chart research directions that take you to the roots of the problem. Learn more in this guest post from Dr. Donna Mertens.
We need to think about research before we design and conduct it.
Julianne Cheek and Elise Øby, co-authors of the book Research Design: Why Thinking About Design Matters, discuss the first three chapters in these video interviews:
Chapter 1 – Research Design: What You Need to Think About and Why
Chapter 2 – Ethical Issues in Research Design
Chapter 3 – Developing Your Research Questions
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How do researchers make design decisions about the methodology and methods?
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Methods Film Fest!
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Find suggestions for navigating the problem formulation stage that precedes research design in social science research.
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This post includes tips about writing qualitative proposals excerpted from Research Design by Creswell and Creswell.
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Have you seen Dr. Gorard use card tricks to teach research methods? Watch this video!
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