Rosaline Barbour draws on her extensive teaching experience to provide a clear, user-friendly introduction to the craft of doing qualitative research. Each chapter includes examples of real-life qualitative data and a range of exercises to help students get a feel for the process of generating and analysing qualitative data.

The second edition includes:

• New examples from a range of social science disciplines, making this the perfect book no matter what course you’re studying


• More on unobtrusive methods of data collection, such as documentary analysis


• More on internet research methods, mixed methods and visual methods


• A new section on using software in qualitative research


• A brand new companion website full of additional lecturer and student resources.