Qualitative Research (in Emergency Management) EM864
READINGS
Week 10 Research Quality
Measures of Quality
Ethics
- Merriam, Chapter 9 Dealing with Validity, Reliability, and Ethics
- Mays, Nicholas; Pope, Catherine; “Qualitative Research: Rigour and Qualitative Research,” British Medical Journal 311 (6997, July 8 1995) 109-112 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2550154/pdf/bmj00600-0043.pdf
- Collogan, Lauren K.; Tuma, Farris; Dolan-Sewell, Regina; Borja, Susan; Fleischman, Alan R.; “Ethical Issues Pertaining to Research in the Aftermath of Disaster” Journal of Traumatic Stress 17 (5, October 2004) 363-372.
- Guba, Egon G.; “Criteria for Assessing the Trustworthiness of Naturalistic Inquiries” Educational Communication and Technology 29 (2, Summer 1981) 75-91. http://www.jstor.org.lib-proxy.jsu.edu/stable/pdfplus/30219811.pdf?acceptTC=true
- Russell, Cynthia K.; Gregory, David M.; “Evaluation of Qualitative Research Studies” Evidence Based Nursing 6 (2, April 2003) 36-40. http://ebn.bmj.com/content/6/2/36.full.pdf+html
- Tracy, Sarah J. “Qualitative Quality: Eight ‘Big-Tent’ Criteria for Excellent Qualitative Research” Qualitative Inquiry 16 (10, October 2010) 837-851. http://qix.sagepub.com.lib-proxy.jsu.edu/content/16/10/837.full.pdf+html
Optional Readings:
- Devers, Kelly J. “How Will We Know ‘Good’ Qualitative Research When We See It? Beginning the Dialogue in Health Services Research” Health Services Research 34 (5, December 1999) 1153-1188. http://qix.sagepub.com.lib-proxy.jsu.edu/content/16/10/837.full.pdf+html
- Rosenstein, Donald L. “Decision-Making Capacity and Disaster Research” Journal of Traumatic Stress 17 (5, October 2004) 373-381.
- Fossey, Ellie; Harvey, Carol; McDermott, Fiona; Davidson, Larry; “Understanding and Evaluating Qualitative Research” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 36 (2002) 717-732 http://www.ruralhealth.utas.edu.au/gr/resources/docs/fossey-et-al-evaluating-qual-research.pdf
- Jesus, John E.; Michael, Glen E.; “Ethical Considerations of Research in Disaster-Stricken Populations” Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 24 (2, March-April 2009) 109-114. http://pdm.medicine.wisc.edu/Volume_24/issue_2/jesus.pdf
- Kelman, Ilan “Operational Ethics for Disaster Research” International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 23 (3, November 2005) 141-158. http://www.ijmed.org/articles/379/download/
- Peled, Einat; Leichtentritt, Ronit; “The Ethic of Qualitative Social Work Research” Qualitative Social Work 1 (2, 2002) 145-169. http://www.soc.aau.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/kbm/VoF/Kurser/2011/Ethical_issues_in_the_research_encounter/Litterature/Einat-Peled-and-Ronit-Leichtentritt-The-Ethics-of-Qualitative-Social-Work-Research.pdf
- Shenton, Andrew K. “Strategies for Ensuring Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research Projects” Education for Information 22 (2004) 63-75 http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/shu_cohort_viii/images/Trustworthypaper.pdf
- Baxter, Jamie; Eyles, John; “Evaluating Qualitative Research in Social Geography: Establishing ‘Rigour’ in Interview Analysis” Transactions Institute of British Geographers 22 (1997) 505-525. http://www.coss.fsu.edu/geography/stallins/geog/Readings/baxtereyles.pdf