Peer Reviewed Papers Using a Pluralistic Qualitative Approach
- Clarke, N. J., Willis, M. E., Barnes, J. S., Caddick, N., Cromby, J., McDermott, H., & Wiltshire, G. (2015). Analytical pluralism in qualitative research: A meta-study. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 12(2), 182-201. Click here to read.
- Madill, A., Flowers, P., Frost, N., & Locke, A. (2018). A meta-methodology to enhance pluralist qualitative research: One man’s use of socio-sexual media and midlife adjustment to HIV. Psychology & health, 33(10), 1209-1228. Click here to read.
- Frost, N. A., Holt, A., Shinebourne, P., Esin, C., Nolas, S. M., Mehdizadeh, L., & Brooks-Gordon, B. (2011). Collective findings, individual interpretations: An illustration of a pluralistic approach to qualitative data analysis. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 8(1), 93-113. Click here to read.
- Burck, C. (2005). Comparing qualitative research methodologies for systemic research: The use of grounded theory, discourse analysis and narrative analysis. Journal of family therapy, 27(3), 237-262. Click here to read.
- Frost, N. (2009). Do you know what I mean?': The use of a pluralistic narrative analysis approach in the interpretation of an interview. Qualitative Research, 9(1), 9-29.Click here to read.
- Honan, E., Knobel, M., Baker, C., & Davies, B. (2000). Producing possible Hannahs: Theory and the subject of research. Qualitative inquiry, 6(1), 9-32.. Click here to read.
- King, N., Finlay, L., Ashworth, P., Smith, J. A., Langdridge, D., & Butt, T. (2008). “Can't Really Trust That, So What Can I Trust?”: A Polyvocal, Qualitative Analysis of the Psychology of Mistrust. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 5(2), 80-102. Click here to read.
- Robinson, O. C., & Smith, J. A. (2010). Investigating the form and dynamics of crisis episodes in early adulthood: The application of a composite qualitative method. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 7(2), 170-191.Click here to read.
- Savage, J. (2000). One voice, different tunes: issues raised by dual analysis of a segment of qualitative data. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 31(6), 1493-1500. Click here to read.
- Simons, L., Lathlean, J., & Squire, C. (2008). Shifting the focus: sequential methods of analysis with qualitative data. Qualitative Health Research, 18(1), 120-132.Click here to read.
- Wickens, C. M. (2011). The investigation of power in written texts through the use of multiple textual analytic frames. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 24(2), 151-164.Click here to read.
- Katsiaficas, D., Futch, V. A., Fine, M., & Sirin, S. R. (2011). Everyday hyphens: Exploring youth identities with methodological and analytic pluralism. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 8(2), 120-139. Click here to read.
- Papadimitriou, C., Caddick, N., & Stone, D. A. (2018). Re-thinking patient motivation in clinical rehabilitation encounters: insights from different theoretical perspectives. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1-27.Click here to read
- Spiers, J., & Riley, R. (2019). Analysing one dataset with two qualitative methods: The distress of general practitioners, a thematic and interpretative phenomenological analysis. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 16(2), 276-290.Click here to read.
- Klein, M. J., & Elliott, R. (2006). Client accounts of personal change in process–experiential psychotherapy: A methodologically pluralistic approach. Psychotherapy Research, 16(1), 91-105.Click here to read.
- Robinson, O. C., & Smith, J. A. (2010). Investigating the form and dynamics of crisis episodes in early adulthood: The application of a composite qualitative method. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 7(2), 170-191.Click here to read.
- Dempsey, M., Foley, S., Frost, N., Murphy, R., Willis, N., Robinson, S., ... & McCarthy, J. (2019). Am I lazy, a drama queen or depressed? A pluralistic analysis of participant and researcher data when analysing accounts of depression posted to an Ireland-based website. Qualitative research in psychology, 1-21. Click here to read.
- Zamariola, G., Frost, N., Van Oost, A., Corneille, O., & Luminet, O. (2019). Relationship between interoception and emotion regulation: New evidence from mixed methods. Journal of affective disorders, 246, 480-485. Click here to read,
- Branney, P., Reid, K., Frost, N., Coan, S., Mathieson, A., & Woolhouse, M. (2019). A context-consent meta-framework for designing open (qualitative) data studies. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 16(3), 483-502. Click here to read.
- Madill, A., Flowers, P., Frost, N., & Locke, A. (2018). A meta-methodology to enhance pluralist qualitative research: One man’s use of socio-sexual media and midlife adjustment to HIV. Psychology & health, 33(10), 1209-1228.Click here to read
- Bailey-Rodriguez, D. (2018). Bailey-Rodriguez, D. (2018). “We’re both in the trenches together”: a pluralistic exploration of attachment behaviour dynamics in a heterosexual couple relationship across the transition to second-time parenthood (Doctoral dissertation, Middlesex University). Click here to read
- Paske, C. (2019). Paske, C. M. (2018). The silent spouse: a pluralistic narrative analysis of accounts from heterosexual spouses of their experiences of being left by their partner for a same-sex relationship (Doctoral dissertation, City, University of London).
Book Chapters
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Clarke, N. J., Caddick, N., & Frost, N. (2016). Pluralistic data analysis: theory and practice. In Routledge handbook of qualitative research in sport and exercise (pp. 390-403). Routledge.
Books
The following books are helpful for researchers who wish to use a pluralistic methodology. If you would like to review one of them, and receive a free copy for doing so, please email Nollaig.frost@ucc.ie.
- Qualitative Research in Psychology: Combining Core Approaches
Editor: Nollaig Frost
Contributing Authors: Amanda Holt, Cigdem Esin, Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Pnina Shinebourne
Published in 2011 by Open University Press.
Nominated for a British Psychological Society Book Award 2013.
The book is a textbook aimed primarily at the postgraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral market in psychology and related disciplines. It introduces an innovative, cutting edge approach to conducting qualitative research by bringing together current work, questions and debates arising from combining qualitative methods with each other. The book contains practical instructions and conceptual discussions that enable researchers already familiar with the single use of qualitative methods to extend their application of these techniques in a robust and viable manner.
To buy this book with a 20% discount use code FROST20 at www.mheducation.co.uk
- Practising Research: Why you're always part of the research process even when you think you're not
Author: Nollaig Frost. Published in 2016 by Palgrave.
An indispensable guide to conducting research in the social sciences. Looking beyond the traditional boundaries of quantitative and qualitative research, this is an illuminating and accessible guide to thinking about the role of the researcher. Suitable for readers working across the social and behavioural sciences, it will hep both novice and expert researchers to assess their own impact on their methodology and findings.
- Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology.
AuthorL Lyons, E. and Coyle, A.. Published in 2016 by Sage.
Analyzing Qualitative Data in Psychology equips students and researchers in psychology and the social sciences to carry out qualitative data analysis, focusing on four major methods (grounded theory, interpretative phenomenological analysis, discourse analysis and narrative analysis). Assuming no prior knowledge of qualitative research, chapters on the nature, assumptions and practicalities of each method are written by acknowledged experts. To help students and researchers make informed methodological choices about their own research the book addresses data collection and the writing up of research using each method, while providing a sustained comparison of the four methods, backed up with authoritative analyses using the different methods.
- Five ways of doing qualitative analysis: Phenomenological psychology, grounded theory, discourse analysis, narrative research, and intuitive inquiry.
Authors: Charmaz, K., & McMullen, L. M. Published in 2011 by Guilford Press.
This unique text provides a broad introduction to qualitative analysis together with concrete demonstrations and comparisons of five major approaches. Leading scholars apply their respective analytic lenses to a narrative account and interview featuring "Teresa," a young opera singer who experienced a career-changing illness. The resulting analyses vividly exemplify what each approach looks like in action. The researchers then probe the similarities and differences among their approaches; their distinctive purposes and strengths; the role, style, and subjectivity of the individual researcher; and the scientific and ethical complexities of conducting qualitative research. Also included are the research participant's responses to each analysis of her experience. A narrative account from another research participant, "Gail," can be used by readers to practice the kinds of analysis explored in the book.
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