Qualitative Research Methodologies for Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

Shoba Nayar is a New Zealand trained and registered occupational therapist. Since completing her PhD in occupational science, she has held various roles in academic institutions in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and India. Shoba currently works as an independent academic, offering consultation services to academic institutions and postgraduate students in the area of qualitative research. Mandy Stanley is a Professor in the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. Mandy is a senior academic with an established program of funded research who has taught qualitative qualitative research to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and successfully supervised higher degree students writing qualitative theses and more than 30 Honours students.

1.Introduction to The Second Edition . 2.Tenets of Qualitative Research: Deepening Understandings. 3.Connections, Disruptions and Transformations: Decolonizing Qualitative Research. 4.Qualitative Descriptive: A Very Good Place to Start. 5.Grounded Theory. 6.Phenomenology. 7.Case Study Methodology. 8.Narrative Inquiry. 9.Ethnography. 10.Critical Discourse Analysis. 11.Participatory Action Research. 12.Visual Methodologies: Photovoice in Focus. 13.Visual arts-based methodologies. 14.Community-Based Research. 15.Netnography. 16.Qualitative Evidence Synthesis. 17.Big Qualitative Data. 18.Best (or Better?) Practices.