Methods Links
Qualitative Research Methods and Analysis
Qualitative Research in Information Systems
http://www.qual.auckland.ac.nz/
Ethnography
Ethnography – SAGE journal
http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal200906
The American Anthropological Association's Anthropology Resources on the Internet Web Page - Computer Programs Used in Ethnography
http://www.stanford.edu/~davidf/ethnography.html
Anthropology and Ethnography blog
http://www.ethnography.com/
Interviewing
What is Qualitative Interviewing? Overview from Arizona State University
http://www.public.asu.edu/~ifmls/artinculturalcontextsfolder/qualintermeth.html
Interviewing – Creating the Space for Views by John Schostak, Manchester Metropolitan University
http://www.enquirylearning.net/ELU/Issues/Research/InterviewBera04.html
Focus group interviews
Focus Groups by Anita Gibbs (from Social Research Update)
http://sru.soc.surrey.ac.uk/SRU19.html
Designing and Conducting Virtual Focus Groups from SySurvey
http://www.sysurvey.com/tips/designing_and_conducting.htm
Focus Groups section of the Evaluation Cookbook from the Institute for Computer Based Learning
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/ltdi/cookbook/focus_groups/index.html
Life History methods
Centre for Life History Research, University of Sussex
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhr/
Oral History methods
Oral History Society
http://www.ohs.org.uk/
Oral History Research Unit site
http://histru.bournemouth.ac.uk/
Oral History Techniques: How to Organize and Conduct Oral History Interviews by Barbara Truesdell, Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ecshm/techniques.html
An Oral History Primer from University of California, Sanra Cruz
http://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/ohprimer.html
Oral history resources from the British Library
http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/history.html
Ethnomethodology
The International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
http://www.iiemca.org/
Visual Methods
Video Critical from the Centre for Creative Media Research
http://artlab.org.uk/videocritical/index.htm
Visual Research Methods by Marcus Banks, from Social Research Update
http://sru.soc.surrey.ac.uk/SRU11/SRU11.html *
International Visual Sociology Association
http://www.visualsociology.org/
Visualising Ethnography
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/visualising_ethnography/
Historical Methods
Institute of Historical Research
http://www.history.ac.uk/
Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
http://www.heldref.org/hm.php
Longitudinal Research
Longitudinal Research tutorial
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/tutorial/Cho2/final/home.html
ULSC - The ESRC United Kingdom Longitudinal Studies Centre
http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/ulsc/about/
Action Research
Action Research International
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/ari/arihome.html
Action Research resources from Martin Ryder, University of Colorado at Denver
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc/act_res.html
Action Research article from Informal Education
http://www.infed.org/research/b-actres.htm
ActionResearch.net from Jack Whitehead, University of Bath
http://people.bath.ac.uk/edsajw/
Action Research resources from Jean McNiff
http://www.jeanmcniff.com/
Action Research Network
http://actionresearch.altec.org/
An Overview of the Methodological Approach of Action Research – from Rory O’Brien, University of Toronto
http://www.web.net/~robrien/papers/arfinal.html
Grounded Theory
The Grounded Theory Institute
http://www.groundedtheory.com/
Introduction to Grounded Theory by Steve Borgatti
http://www.analytictech.com/mb870/introtoGT.htm
Publishers of Grounded Theory Methodology
http://www.sociologypress.com/
The Grounded Theory Review: An International Journal
http://www.groundedtheoryreview.com/
Documentary Analysis
Text Analysis resources
http://www.textanalysis.info/
Document Analysis Worksheets from The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/
Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts - Chapter 2: Document Analysis
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/chap2.html
Conversation Analysis
Conversation Analysis.Net – Denmark-based resource for scholars and students of conversation and interaction analysis
http://www.conversation-analysis.net/
Conversation Analysis resources from Talk Bank
http://talkbank.org/CABank/
The International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
http://www.iiemca.org/
Discourse Analysis
Discourse Analysis overview from The University of Texas at Austin
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~palmquis/courses/discourse.htm
Discourse analysis online – an interactive online journal
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/daol/
Critical Discourse Analysis from Brett Dellinger, University of Turku
http://users.utu.fi/bredelli/cda.html
Electronic Bibliography on Discourse Analysis
http://www.discourse-analysis.com/
Integrational Discourse Analysis – information from V.A. Iatsko, Katanov State University of Khakasia
http://www.khsu.ru/ida/
Discourse in Society - website of Teun A. van Dijk
http://www.discourses.org/
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines
http://www.cadaad.org/
Narrative Analysis
Narrative Analysis – module notes from North Carolina State University
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/narrativ.htm
Some Further Steps in Narrative Analysis by William Labov. University of Pennsylvania
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/sfs.html
Learners' Lives: A Narrative Analysis by Heather J. Richmond, Nova Southeastern University
http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR7-3/richmond.html
Social Network Analysis
Social Network Analysis, A Brief Introduction. From the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research
http://www.orgnet.com/sna.html
Introduction to social network methods (online textbook)
http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/nettext/
International Network for Social Network Analysis
http://www.insna.org/
Introduction to Social Network Analysis
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/publications/snacourse/snacourseweb.html
Social Network Analysis Instructional Web Site from Analytic Technologies
http://www.analytictech.com/networks/