scholarly journals Evidence-Based Practice and Qualitative Research: A Primer for Library and Information Professionals

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Given
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Research Problems

Objective - This paper discusses the importance of qualitative research in evidence-based library and information practice (EBLIP), with a focus on practical tips for evaluating and implementing effective qualitative research projects. Methods - The paper provides a brief introduction to the nature of qualitative inquiry and its status within current models of evidence assessment. Three problems of excluding qualitative research from the evidence-base in library and information studies (LIS) are identified: 1) ignoring the social sciences and humanities traditions that inform research in the field; 2) privileging of quantitative and experimental methods over others in evidence assessment; and, 3) focusing attention away from the best evidence for LIS research problems. Results - Qualitative approaches commonly used in library and information contexts are discussed, along with strategies for assessing quality in this work and some of the common ethics-related issues that researchers and professionals must consider. Conclusions - LIS professionals are encouraged to: 1) select research methods – including qualitative approaches – that best suit LIS questions; 2) design collaborative projects that combine quantitative and qualitative approaches, that will address research questions in a more complete way; 3) consider qualitative measures of rigor in assessing quality – rather than imposing quantitative expectations; and 4) revise existing models of “evidence” to recognize the value and rigor of qualitative research projects.

Qualitative research and scientific knowledge: Social science in post-totalitarian academia

Human Affairs ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juraj Podoba
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Qualitative Social Research ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Analytical Category

AbstractThe paper presents a critical analysis of the current state of qualitative research approaches in the social sciences and humanities within Slovak academic institutions. The author has been inspired by the metaphor of academic “barbaricum”. This analytical category is based on a model of the relationship between core and periphery, which has no clear function or organisational logic. From the scientific point of view, the core/centre should produce and innovate the theory, whereas the periphery should apply it. In Slovakia—contrary to the situation in Western academia—, the last two decades have seen a growth in the numbers of academic institutions dealing with the humanities (and partly with the social sciences), and stagnation in qualitative social research. The author suggests that if the Slovak social sciences aspire is to becoming part of the so-called European academic space, then this will certainly not be possible without much stronger and extensive support for social research based on qualitative approaches and methods.

What's the problem with disaster? Anthropology, social work, and the qualitative slot

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1496-1516
Author(s):  
Tisha Joseph Holmes ◽  
John Mathias ◽  
Tyler McCreary ◽  
James Brian Elsner
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Disaster Anthropology ◽  
Political Economic

On March 3, 2019, an EF4 tornado devastated the rural Alabama communities of Beauregard and Smith Station, killing 23 people and causing direct injuries to another 97. This storm was unusually devastating, with twice the predicted casualty rate based on the tornado’s power, the impacted population, and impacted housing stock. In this paper, we apply qualitative methods from anthropology, geography, and planning to better understand the social context of this unusually devastating tornado. Recognizing that there are multiple formulations of the problem of disasters, we aim to highlight how interdisciplinary qualitative research can deepen our understanding of tornado disasters. Combining policy analysis, political economic critique, and ethnographic description, we seek to showcase how qualitative research enables us to interrogate and reimagine the problem of disasters. Rather than simply juxtaposing qualitative and quantitative methods, we emphasize how the heterogeneity of qualitative research methods can strengthen interdisciplinary research projects by generating dialogue about the multiple contexts relevant to understanding a social problem. While problem definition remains a central challenge to establishing a dialogue between anthropology and social work, here, we intend to extend this discussion to larger interdisciplinary collaborations. Situating the issue of problem formation within a broader ecology of qualitative inquiry, we highlight how dialogue about problem definition can, itself, produce meaningful insights into how we understand disasters.

scholarly journals Something for Everyone: A Review of Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Approaches

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Tarnoki ◽  
Katheryne Puentes
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nova Southeastern University

Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches (2018), by John W. Creswell and Cheryl N. Poth was written for anyone who is considering themselves to be researchers or interested in learning more about qualitative research. As students in doctoral programs studying family therapy at Nova Southeastern University, we felt that parts of the text were explicitly tailored toward the social sciences; however, the chapters are useful for anyone interested in qualitative research from many angles and aspects.

Creative Subversion: Staking a Claim for Critical Qualitative Inquiry

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042093329
Author(s):  
César A. Cisneros Puebla
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Civil Resistance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Knowledge Object ◽  
Radical Transformation

It is important to define the ethnographical practices as a way of thinking and doing critical qualitative inquiry. Creative subversion currently arises as a breaking of rules, institutional change, social or political protest, popular or civic rebellion, fighting the law or simply radical transformation of situations. Today it is everywhere even though there is too much silence around it, which could be catastrophic for qualitative research. Reflexive methods could be enriched if researchers looking for social transformation and collaborating in civil resistance integrate in their ethnographical practices the creative subversion as shared knowledge object. It is pertinent to interpret the social action involved in such transformative processes as a poetics of rage collective or individually performed. Doing a review of how creative subversion has been dealt in the contemporary social science, this article is an effort to provide a nuance and rigorous definition.

Qualitative Approaches in Craniofacial Research

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline A. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Professional Beliefs ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
The Social ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
Research Tools

This article proposes the customary use of qualitative methods as complementary research tools to enhance the evidence base in the craniofacial field. The recognition given to qualitative approaches in other healthcare areas and their value in enhancing understanding of lay and professional beliefs and behaviors is contrasted with the paucity of qualitative studies to date in the craniofacial field. Research tools from the qualitative repertoire are briefly introduced and their underpinning principles are explained. The contribution made to research with children and families in wider healthcare areas and in the craniofacial field to date is outlined. Future potential applications of these methods to craniofacial research are discussed. It is suggested that qualitative methods be integrated into craniofacial research as part of the standard toolbox of inquiry, and that interdisciplinary collaborations with colleagues from the social sciences appropriately skilled in the methods should be developed.

Rejecting Labels and Colonization: In Exile From Post-Qualitative Approaches

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042094104
Author(s):  
Kakali Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Academic Trajectories ◽  
Culturally Congruent ◽  
Qualitative Approaches

In this paper, I trace my pathways of de/colonial ontoepistemic orientations to qualitative research. I identify the work I do without the need for post-qualitative labels, noting that post-qualitative scholars purport to open up expansive spaces by moving away from such forms of labeling, structuring, belonging, and maintaining categories. I discuss how my academic trajectories, culminating in the current moment, have always already positioned me to engage in culturally congruent inquiry that challenges western structures of superiority of knowledge construction. To discover and incorporate into my approaches to qualitative inquiry, that which I have been unable to think about or think with, I journey through a process of un/learning and self-exile.

scholarly journals The Quality of the Evidence: Qualitative Research in Trauma Psychology

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Mattar ◽  
Eric B. Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Outcome Studies ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Disaster Mental Health ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Mental Health Literature

The efficacy of evidence-based practices with underprivileged groups and non-Western cultures has been a subject of controversy in the trauma psychology and disaster mental health literature. There has been a debate as to whether evidence based assessments and interventions work equally well for diverse populations. Resolving this controversy has been difficult in part because of the methodological challenges involved in the study of cultural mediation of psychological phenomena. The authors argue that adding qualitative research to the evidence base supporting trauma treatments, as a matter of standard practice, can fill this need. Qualitative research can provide a rigorous research basis for the identification of cultural factors to be accounted for in quantitative outcome studies, as well as a rigorous means of understanding the real-world meaning of quantitative outcome findings. This would address Evidence-based practices (EBP) advocates’ concerns about the unscientific nature of the multicultural literature’s critique, and multiculturalism advocate’s concerns about the lack of contextualism in EBP outcome studies of trauma treatments.

Systems, Fiddling and Strangers: Young People on the ‘Welfare State’

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Young People ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social World ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The Welfare State

This paper is concerned with young people's understanding of the welfare state; who and what is it for, and what is their relation to it? It is argued that such qualitative research into these questions is not common. Exploring these issues increases our knowledge of the presence that ideas and discourses about welfare states have in young people's understanding of the social world. Qualitative approaches such as the one adopted in this paper can tap into meanings and perceptions that young people have in relation to the welfare state that can be glossed over with more quantitative concerns with ‘attitudes’.

scholarly journals Methodology, Fake Learning, and Emotional Performativity

2021 ◽  
pp. 209653112098478
Author(s):  
Bruce Macfarlane
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
The Social

Purpose: Academics are at the forefront of criticisms about so-called “fake news” considered to undermine evidence-based approaches to the understanding of complex social, political, and economic issues. However, universities contribute to the production of fake news through the legitimization of measures that promote student performativity rewarding their academic non-achievements. This conceptual article will seek to illustrate how this can occur via the writing of methodology chapters by postgraduate students. Design/Approach/Methods: This article provides a critical analysis of the writing of methodology chapters in dissertations and theses in postgraduate education in the social sciences. In so doing, it applies the concept of performativity to student learning. Findings: It is argued that the pressures on students to comply with the requirements of emotional performativity in respect to ideology and method in close-up, qualitative research can lead to fake learning. This phenomenon may be exemplified by reference to a number of practices, namely, phony positionality, methodolatry, ethical cleansing, participatory posturing, and symbolic citation. Originality/Value: This article provides an illustration of the concept of student performativity. It demonstrates that emotional performativity plays a significant role in the way in which students are required to comply with expectations that give rise to inauthenticity in learning.

scholarly journals Qualitative Research Ladder for Fledging Researchers A Review of Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sepideh Fard
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
General View ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology

In order to qualify our research, I think quantitative studies are not enough. A s a matter of fact, we need more qualitative studies especially if we are dealing with human traits and the social sciences’ studies as the numbers would not suffice. In doing so, there is a need for resear4chers to acquire a full understanding of qualitative research methodology, data collection procedures and the risks and issues related to them. For the beginners to enter in to the ocean of qualitative research areas, it seems necessary to have good sourcebooks to get a general view of this type of research and then deeply dive in the ocean of qualitative studies which needs lots of endeavor. In Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry, Maria J. Mayan (2009) provides a handy ladder for these beginning qualitative researchers to gain an introductory perspective.

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