Qualitative Research Online Resources
This is a selected list of additional resources to learn about qualitative research.
- ActionResearch.net
This website provides resources for students, teachers, and researchers interested in action research (some of the resources include links to action research texts).
- Action Research Network of the Americas
This website is a tool that enables researchers (the teachers) to share their research and view the findings of others.
- A/r/tography
This website provides a definition of a/r/tography and information and resources on a/r/tography.
- The Association for Qualitative Research (Great Britain)
This website is devoted to qualitative research resources (glossary of qualitative terms, event information, conference information, etc.). The Association formerly was called the Association of Qualitative Research Practitioner.
- Better Evaluation (of the Global Evaluation Initiative, GEI)
Knowledge platform of the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI), offering tools and resources, frameworks & guides, and methods & approaches to create, share and support use of knowledge about how to better plan, manage, conduct and use evaluation.
- Center for Appreciative Inquiry
Trainings, workshops, and consulting projects designed and delivered by Appreciative Inquiry Professionals.
- Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology
This website is devoted to collecting and disseminating phenomenology resources.
- Center for Collaborative Action Research
This website on collaborative action research provides examples.
- Center for Ethnography
This UC Irvine website provides information about ethnography and various types of ethnographic texts.
- Center for Narrative Inquiry
This website provides resources and examples related to narrative inquiry.
- Centre for Arts-informed Research
This website provides links to art-informed projects (in addition to information on events and conferences).
- Centre for Research in Communication and Culture
Interdisciplinary centre, creatively combining social science and humanities approaches for the rigorous exploration of the production and consumption of different forms of communication and creative texts.
- Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN)
This website provides bulletins on action research (along with conference and event information).
- Conversion Analysis Tutorial
Information and how-to on conversion analysis by Charles Antaki at Loughborough University.
- Delve
Tool for Grounded Theory, as well as information on Grounded Theory.
- The Grounded Theory Institute
This is the official website of Dr. Barney Glaser and classic grounded theory.
- Grounded Theory Online
This website is devoted to Glaser’s grounded theory approach and ways to help students work with that approach.
- International Institute for Qualitative Methodologies (IIQM)
This website provides research networking and training opportunities.
- Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
This website provides information on IPA and a link to a research teaching/training tool.
- QualPage – Resources for Qualitative Researchers
This Web page describes several different qualitative research approaches.
- Method space
This website is designed to connect the research community.
- Narrative Psychology: An Internet Guide
This website provides links to definition of narrative psych and information on methods.
- Online QDA
This website provides step-by-step process for qualitative data analysis.
- University of Southampton Centre for Political Ethnography
Centre for ethnographic research in politics and administration.
- Phenomenology Online
This website provides access to articles and other resources for those engaging with phenomenology.
- Qualitative Inquiry Growth
Through this website, Thomas Groenewald provides descriptions of various qualitative research approaches.
- Online Qualitative Research Resources
Susan Hawes and Katherine Evarts Rice provide background information and other resources.
- Research Salad: Mixed Methods, Tossed Up Fresh Every Day
This blog provides information on issues in research (such as authorship).
- Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
This page lists free resources for Program Evaluation and Social Research Methods. The focus is on "how-to" do program evaluation and social research: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods. Most of these links are to resources that can be read over the web.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Qualitative Research Guidelines
This website contains information for people developing, evaluating and engaging in qualitative research projects in healthcare settings.
- Social Research Update
This website is the quarterly journal from the department of sociology at the University of Surrey.
- The Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) at Harvard University
This website provides information about current sensory ethnography projects and sensory ethnography courses.
- Qualitative Research Methods Group
This website from the University of Wisconsin provides support, such as research groups, for those teaching qualitative methods courses. Password protected but you can join the group by sending to email.
- The Research Methods Knowledge Base
This website provides information on research methods, with key terms and definitions.
Additional resources: Other useful websites
- Adele Clark on Situational Analysis and Grounded Theory
Video (1 hr): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F74LyrjrHZo - https://www.youtube.com/@DegreeDoctor YouTube channel that covers many of the basics of research. Some particularly useful videos include:
- Research Paradigms & Philosophy: Positivism, Interpretivism and Pragmatism Explained (With Examples). A useful video explaining and describing positivism, interpretivism and pragmatism.
- Ontology and epistemology: a simple guide for PhD and masters degree research students Clear, concrete explanations of ontology and epistemology.
- Conceptual vs theoretical framework A useful video explaining the concepts of conceptual and theoretical frameworks. The focus is on criminology, but it gets the point across well.
- https://www.youtube.com/@GradCoach
YouTube channel that covers all sorts of aspects of research, such as writing the research review and ethics.
Additional resources: Other useful websites
- QualPage’s Teaching Qualitative Research:
Large site with resources for teaching and links to sites related to some of the research approaches in the book.
- UK Data Service Qualitative data:
This site has lots of links to resources related to teaching qualitative research.
- National Centre for Research Methods, UK:
Resources on qualitative and quantitative data, including podcasts and videos.
- University of Alabama
This page has links to several relevant qualitative data sites.
- Rutgers University LibGuide to Qualitative Research:
This is a list of different organisations and conferences involved in qualitative methods.
- Grounded Theory Online
A website dedicated to grounded theory.