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This edited volume is a systematic collection of research initiatives in the qualitative research paradigm, focusing on researchers in Malaysia. A useful guide for qualitative research methodology educators and researchers in the Sciences and Humanities as well as practitioners in any industry that involves human thought and behaviour.
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Contents
Lists of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
SECTION 1: Forwarding Qualitative Design
1. Malaysia's knowledge journey: National Epistemological Moulding (NEM) and social research
Su Li Chong
2. Unfolding stories: Narratives of women with breast-cancer
Wan Hasliza Wan Mamat
3. Media diary method: Navigating the untold world of young Malaysians' use of media for identity formation
Haryati Abdul Karim
4. Venturing out of "the norm": Challenges with flexibility and subjectivity of qualitative research design
Kalvina A/P Chelladorai
Wen Yea Hwong
5. Between the 'flying rocks': How narratives of a rural Sarawak community's collective anger shifted an impact study's methodological design
Haslina Hashim
Noor'ain Aini
Linda Alfarero Lumayag
6. Seeing anew: Transitioning from positivism to interpretivism
Jeffrey K. L. Yee
SECTION 2: Making use of rigour
7. Reconciling personal beliefs with the realities of grant applications: an early career qualitative researcher's narrative
Jia Wei Lim
8. Qualitative research & publications in Malaysia: Some patterns and perspectives
Su Li Chong
Dahlia Janan
9. Bewitched, bothered and bewildered: Life as a qualitative researcher in a positivist jungle
Balvinder Kaur Kler
SECTION 3: Anchoring in philosophy and axiology
10. Qualitative methodology to examine decision-making processes trans men utilise in becoming men
Vizla Kumaresan
11. Dealing with sensitive and distressing data: A perspective from online sexism discourse researchers
Wan Nur Asyura Wan Adnan
12. Lessons learned on sensitivity and ethics through interviewing repeat students
Chan Choong Foong
13. Overcoming challenges and sensitivities surrounding sexual health topic
Siti Hazariah Abdul Hamid
14. Treading carefully in murky waters: Sensitivities and sensibilities in research on ethnicity and race in Malaysia
Mitshel Lino
Index
About the author
Su Li Chong is Senior Lecturer at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. She is Head of UTP's University Social Responsibility (Education Pillar). She is also President of Qualitative Research Association of Malaysia (QRAM). She obtained an MPhil and a PhD in Education from University of Cambridge, UK. Her research interests are in literacy and language education.
Summary
This edited volume is a systematic collection of research initiatives in the qualitative research paradigm, focusing on researchers in Malaysia. A useful guide for qualitative research methodology educators and researchers in the Sciences and Humanities as well as practitioners in any industry that involves human thought and behaviour.
