A New Era in Focus Group Research Challenges, Innovation and Practice

This volume provides a critical approach to using focus groups, examining how focus groups have been utilized to research a diverse set of research questions covering a broad spectrum of substantive fields. The collection acknowledges the tensions between different research traditions, disciplinary...

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Other Authors: Barbour, Rosaline S. (Editor), Morgan, David L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 9. Hybrid focus groups as a means to investigate practical reasoning, learning processes and indigenous activities; Ana Prades, Josep Espluga & Tom Horlick-Jones
  • Part III:Innovations in Focus Group Facilitation
  • 10. The use of video recording in longitudinal focus group research; Claire Thompson, Daniel J Lewis AND Stephanie J.C. Taylor
  • 11. Best practices for Synchronous Online Focus Groups; Bojana Lobe
  • 12. Performance-Based Focus Groups; Jennifer Wooten
  • 13. Collective production of discourse and the Qualitative School of Madrid; Jorge Ruiz Ruiz
  • Part IV: Theoretical Developments
  • 14. A kaleidoscope of voices: Using focus groups in a study of rural adolescent girls; Erin E. Seato
  • 15. Bringing socio-narratology and visual methods to focus group research; Cassandra Phoenix, Noreen Orr and Meridith Griffin
  • 16. Focus groups as anticipatory methodology: A contribution from Science and Technology Studies towards socially-resilient governance; Phil Macnaghten
  • 1. Setting the scene for a new era of focus group research; Rosaline S. Barbour
  • Part I: Using Focus Groups in New Settings
  • 2. Accessing the closed world of professional football; Chris Platts and Andy Smith
  • 3. Outsourcing qualitative health research; Laurence Kohn & Wendy Christiaens
  • 4. Cross-cultural focus group discussions; Monique M. Hennink
  • 5. Exploring Sex, HIV & ‘Sensitive' Space(s) among Sexual Minority Young Adults in Thailand; Peter A. Newman, Suchon Tepjan, & Clara Rubincam
  • Part 2: Capitalizing on Focus Groups in Mixed Methods Contexts
  • 6. Use of focus groups in developing behavioural m-health interventions: A critical review; Helen Eborall & Katie Morton
  • 7. Programme evaluation in the Chinese cultural context; Daniel T.L. Shek
  • 8. Focus groups in triangulation contexts; Sabine Caillaud and Uwe Flick
  • 17. Using focus groups to study the process of (de)politicization;Sophie Duchesne
  • 18. Practice theoretically inspired focus groups: Socially recognizable performativity?; Bente Halkier
  • 19. A call for further innovations in focus groups; David L. Morgan