The Routledge International Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Psychological Research

The contemporary world currently faces multi-level challenges, including cross border migration, economic crises and myriad health issues, including the recent Covid-19 pandemic.

List of contents

FOREWORD
Kenneth Gergen
PART I. SETTING THE SCENE: QUALITATIVE PSCYHOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

1. Innovation in qualitative psychological research: Tackling methodological and societal challenges Eleftheria Tseliou, Brendan Gough, Carolin Demuth and Eugenie Georgaca


2. Diversity with a purpose: Reflections on qualitative psychology research Carla Willig


3. The line as a root metaphor for qualitative psychology Svend Brinkmann
part II. Innovation in the process of inquiry: Method-focused contributions
EDITOR: Eleftheria Tseliou


4. Performative social science Günter Mey


5. Dramatization: Cultural and psychological foundations of performative methodologies Shuangshuang Xu and Luca Tateo


6. Combining narrative inquiry and Foucaultian discourse analysis: Narrative-discursive analysis Marco Gemignani and Viv Burr


7. Sociopsychodrama as a qualitative research method Vedrana Mirkovi¿ and Jana Damjanov


8. Analytical pluralism: An application to the exploration of adult attachment Deborah Bailey-Rodriguez and Nollaig Frost


9. Children's drawings as data in psychology: Replicating William Stern's 1905 study on the Land of Plenty Andrea Kleeberg-Niepage and Johanna Degen


10. Disentangling meaning in hard to understand data through expanding the Listening Guide Franziska Müller, Sasmita Rosari, Jessica Höhn, Marie-Luise Springmann, and Mechthild Kiegelmann


11. Researchers' triangulation in interviews analyses: Inter-subjectivity as an asset for the production of original interpretative ideas An illustration with a French research on intimate partner violence experience Leìa Restivo, Solveig Lelaurain and Theìmis Apostolidis
REFLECTION
From Epistemology and Integrating Multiple Methods to Performing Social Science Reflections on Section 1 "Innovation in the Process of Inquiry: Method-focused Contributions" Uwe Flick
PART III: Innovative participant-centered health and mental health projects
EDITOR: Eugenie Georgaca


12. How can incorporating participant-generated photographs with interviews enhance interpretative phenomenological accounts about living with chronic illness? Iain R. Willamson, Periklis Papaloukas, Nicholas Shaw, Emily Print and Kerry Quincey


13. Body mapping the experience of fibromyalgia syndrome Maja Smrdu & Laura Jereb


14. Creative phenomenology within health and social care research: Bridging the gap between experience and expression William Day, Shioma-Lei Craythorne, Tiago Moutela, Katharine Slade, and Gemma Heath


15. Alliance ruptures and repairs as a discursive process: A Conversation Analysis perspective Peter Muntigl & Adam Horvath


16. Tracking change in group psychotherapy: Systematic methodological steps to record the development of clients' inner voices Maria Viou, & Eugenie Georgaca


17. Inner and outer dialogue in couple therapy: The potential of Stimulated Recall Interviews Virpi-Liisa Kykyri, Jarl Wahlström, & Jaakko Seikkula
REFLECTION
New ways of looking, new things to see: Invited Reflection on Part III Jonathan A Smith
PART IV: Innovative COMMUNITY-FOCUSED PROJECTS
EDITOR: Brendan Gough


18. Working with, not on unemployed people: How to explore subjective unemployment experiences in the affective economy Sabina Pultz


19. Using Innovative Qualitative Research Methods in Vulnerable Populations: Image-Based Research as Culturally Sensitive Alessandro Pepe and Loredana Addimando


20. Asset Mapping Towards Community Development: Exploring Home-Based Care Services in Cairo, Egypt Yomna M. El-Taweel and Irene Strasser


21. From capturing social issues to art production and community mobilization: A participatory multimodal study of life in Eleusis Issari, P., Karydi, E., Georgaca, E., Koliouli, F., Skali, D., Papadopoulos, N., El Raheb, K., Ioannidis, Y., Kalabratsidou, V., Diamantides, P., Stergiou, M., Gkiokas, P. and Vassilakou, V.


22. Systems thinking, rhizomes, and community-based qualitative research: An introduction to Nomadic Thematic Analysis Alexios Brailas and Konstantinos Papachristopoulos
REFLECTION
Innovative community-focused projects: critical reflection Rebecca Lawthom
PART V: Thinking innovatively about societal issues
EDITOR: Carolin Demuth


23. Beyond procedural ethics: four levels of research ethics in qualitative research Laure Kloetzer


24. Collaborative practice research: Inequality in school as an example Charlotte Højholt


25. Applying discursive methodologies to understanding hate speech on social media platforms Simon Goodman, Abigail Locke, Mick Finlay and Rosemary Lobban


26. Toilet talk: (Trans)Gendered negotiation of public spaces John Somers, Shani Burke, Philippa Carr and Mirko Demasi


27. Accessing ambivalences of the (feminist) self?! Advancing psychosocial analyses at the intersection of explicit and implicit knowledge by using the documentary method Katharina Hametner, Natalie Rodax and Sandra Reisch


28. Learning Pluralism and Researching Pluralistically: Pluralistic Qualitative Research as a model for teaching and learning qualitative research in psychology Sarah Foley, Nollaig Frost and Maria Dempsey
REFLECTION
Methods in Society: Constrained Pluralism Jan Valsiner
CLOSING


29. Innovative qualitative psychological research in light of pressing methodological, societal and health challenges - looking ahead Carolin Demuth, Eugenie Georgaca, Brendan Gough and Eleftheria Tseliou




About the author










Eleftheria Tseliou is Professor of Research Methodology and Qualitative Methods at the University of Thessaly, Greece.
Carolin Demuth is Associate Professor in Cultural and Developmental Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark, where she teaches Qualitative Methods, Developmental Psychology and Cultural Psychology.
Eugenie Georgaca is Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at the School of Psychology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Brendan Gough is a social psychologist and qualitative researcher based at Leeds Beckett University, UK, and mainly works in the field of masculinity and men's health. He is cofounder and coeditor of the journal Qualitative Research in Psychology.

Product details

• Assisted by: Carolin Demuth (Editor), Georgaca Eugenie (Editor), Gough Brendan (Editor), Eleftheria Tseliou (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9780367677657
• ISBN: 978-0-367-67765-7
• No. of pages: 428
• Weight: 453 g
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• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Medicine, PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, Social Work, Psychological methodology, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Research methods: general, Medicine and Nursing, Research;Psychological;Qualitative