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This Sage Handbook presents an interdisciplinary collection of chapters exploring how to assess the quality of collecting and analysing qualitative data, while maintaining a focus on diversity, digital and critical approaches. The Handbook considers essential questions such as what is good qualitative research? What makes qualitative research good research? And, how can we make qualitative research better research? Contributions come from a wide array of experts, and highlight answers to questions from various disciplinary and geographical areas; from mixed methods to multimodal and online research, from specific types of data and methods to specific target groups, and from theoretical and epistemological contexts to those where funding has an impact on how research is done and assessed. Qualitative research has evolved in many respects in recent decades and has grown increasingly multidisciplinary. Research in general is facing new challenges around how to take diversity and decolonisation into account in what researchers do, as well as how to produce and communicate qualitative research quality. This Handbook offers a timely overview of such developments, and will support researchers involved in planning, designing, doing and evaluating qualitative research in developing an increased sensitivity for contemporary debates and challenges in the field. Part I Philosophies and Epistemologies of Qualitative Research Quality Part II Disciplinary Discourses of Qualitative Research Quality Part III Qualitative Research Quality for Specific Approaches Part IV Rethinking Qualitative Research Quality for Specific Methods and Data Part V Rethinking Strategies for Quality in Qualitative Research Part VI Rethinking Criteria for Quality in Qualitative Research Part VII Extending Contexts and Challenges for Qualitative Research Quality

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Research quality is the prime consideration for any methodology and in qualitative research it is also one of the most elusive and hotly contested. This impressive handbook, the latest from Uwe Flick, an international authority on qualitative methods, is contemporary – with themes of diversity, decolonisation, and digital resources threaded throughout the contributions – and closely reflects the increasing multidisciplinary presence of qualitative research. Compelling scholarship and the handbook’s genuinely global reach make this a crucial resource for students and practitioners of qualitative research across the social sciences and for those who fund or evaluate qualitative studies.  -- Nigel Fielding

Research quality is the prime consideration for any methodology and in qualitative research it is also one of the most elusive and hotly contested. This impressive handbook, the latest from Uwe Flick, an international authority on qualitative methods, is contemporary – with themes of diversity, decolonisation, and digital resources threaded throughout the contributions – and closely reflects the increasing multidisciplinary presence of qualitative research. Compelling scholarship and the handbook’s genuinely global reach make this a crucial resource for students and practitioners of qualitative research across the social sciences and for those who fund or evaluate qualitative studies.  -- Nigel Fielding As ever this is an immensely valuable edited collection expertly steered by Uwe Flick, a gift to the qualitative research community. Established arguments and new directions coexist seamlessly together. Anyone seeking to gain a strong contemporaneous sense of ""how to locate the crossroads"" of scholarly reflections bearing on qualitative research will not be disappointed by this Handbook’s emphasis on rethinking and extending knowledge and pedagogy.  I am also very encouraged to dig deeper than on first reading to appraise and anticipate where issues covered are demonstrably beneficial for practicing researchers keen to capitalise on this set of authors’ efforts and direction-taking. -- Karen Henwood Professor Uwe Flick is a leading figure in qualitative inquiry who has published several excellent collections that are now seminal in the field. His current venture is masterful. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality sets new standards for assessing quality in the field with a diverse collection of chapters that offer something for everyone engaged in qualitative inquiry. This handbook offers an invaluable resource for emerging and established scholars and practitioners. -- Darrin Hodgetts

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Uwe Flick is Senior Professor of Qualitative Research in Social Science and Education at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is a trained psychologist and sociologist and received his PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin in 1988 and his Habilitation from the Technical University Berlin in 1994. He has been Professor of Qualitative Research at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany and at the University of Vienna, Austria. Previously, he was Adjunct Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Canada; a Lecturer in research methodology at the Freie Universität Berlin; a Reader and Assistant Professor in qualitative methods and evaluation at the Technical University Berlin; and Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Sociology at the Hannover Medical School. He has held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Cambridge University (UK), Memorial University of St John’s (Canada), University of Lisbon (Portugal), Institute of Higher Studies in Vienna, in Italy and Sweden, and the School of Psychology at Massey University, Auckland (New Zealand). His main research interests are qualitative methods, social representations in the fields of individual and public health, vulnerability in fields like youth homelessness or (forced) migration and chronical illness in everyday live. He is the editor of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design (2 Vols.; Sage 2022). The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis (Sage, 2014), The SAGE Qualitative Research Kit (Sage, 2nd edn, 2018), A Companion to Qualitative Research (Sage, 2004), Psychology of the Social (Cambridge University Press, 1998). His most recent publications are the seventh edition of An Introduction to Qualitative Research (Sage, 2023), Doing Grounded Theory (Sage, 2018), Doing Triangulation and Mixed Methods (Sage, 2018), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection (editor, Sage, 2018), the third edition of Introducing Research Methodology – Thinking Your Way through Your Research Project (Sage, 2020) and Doing Interview Research - The Essential How To Guide (Sage 2022). In 2019, Uwe Flick received the Lifetime Award in Qualitative Inquiry at the 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

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