Syllabus/achievement requirements

In addition to reading and discussing the texts listed below, you are required to identify texts that are specifically relevant to your thesis project and your methodological interests, and to include those in your reading list. You will be asked to discuss some of your chosen readings in class, and to cite your chosen readings in your written assessment for the course.

Mason, J. (2002). Qualitative Researching. London: Sage.

Sternberg, R. J., & Sternberg, K. (2010). The Psychologist's Companion: A Guide to Writing Scientific Papers for Students and Researchers. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Required weekly reading

Week 15

  • Mason (2002): Read 1-2 chapters of your choice
  • Sternberg & Sternberg (2010): Read Chapter 4 and 5
  • Barter, C., & Renold, E. (2000). 'I wanna tell you a story': exploring the application of vignettes in qualitative research with children and young people. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 3(4), 307-323.

Week 16

  • Your choice: Find and read a methodological article or chapter that could help you plan your Master's research

Week 17

  • Cummins, G. (2014). The New Statistics: Why and How. Psychological Science, 25(1), 7-29.
  • Silverman, D. (2005). Doing Qualitative Research: A Practical Handbook. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. (Chapter 12: Developing data analysis). 171-187.

Week 18

  • Mason (2002): Read 1 chapter of your choice
  • Willig, C. (2003). Discourse analysis. In Smith, J. A. (Ed.) Qualitative Psychology: A Practical Guide to Methods. London: Sage. 159-183.

Week 19

  • Mason, J. (2002). Qualitative Researching. London: Sage. Chapter 9: Making convincing arguments with qualitative data. 173-204.
  • Ponterotto, J. G. (2010). Qualitative Research in Multicultural Psychology: Philosophical Underpinnings, Popular Approaches, and Ethical Considerations. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 16(4), 581-589
  • Your choice: Find and read an article that reports a qualitative/quantitative research project. Focus on the way the author uses data and reports on the data analysis.
  • 澳门葡京手机版app下载setiske komiteer. (2006). Guidelines for research ethics in the social sciences, law and the humanities. De nasjonale forskningsetiske komiteer.
     

Further relevant readings

Applied Multiple Regression/correlation analyses for the behavioural science
https://books.google.no/books?id=fuq94a8C0ioC&redir_esc=y

Epidemiological methods in life course research, Pickles, Maughan and Wadsworth
https://books.google.no/books?id=GSvV9-71AfUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=epidemiological+methods+in+life+course+research&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIl-uej9bTyAIVQaIsCh2l4g-7#v=onepage&q=epidemiological%20methods%20in%20life%20course%20research&f=false

Shevlin, M. & Miles, J. Applying Regression and Correlation, 
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/applying-regression-and-correlation/book209139

Tabachnick, B. G., & Fidell, L. S. (2013). Using Multivariate Statistics , 6th ed. Boston: Pearson.

Some useful methodology books

Bazeley, P. (2013). Qualitative data analysis: Practical strategies. London: Sage.

Charmaz, K., Wertz, F., Charmez, K., McMullen, L., Josselson, R., Anderson, R., & McSpadden, E. (2011). Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis. London: The Guilford Press

Denzin, N.K. & Lincoln, Y.S. (2005). The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (3rd Edition).  Thousand Oaks, London and New Delhi: Sage.

Forrester, M. A. (2010). Doing qualitative research in psychology: a practical guide. Los Angeles: Sage.

Haavind, H. (2000). Kj?nn og fortolkende metode: metodiske muligheter i kvalitativ forskning. Oslo: Gyldendal akademisk.

Kvale, S., & Brinkmann, S. (2011). Interview: introduktion til et h?ndv?rk. K?benhavn: Hans Reitzel.

Marks, D. F., & Yardley, L. (2004). Research methods for clinical and health psychology. London: Sage Publications.

Miles, M. B. and M. Huberman, A. (1994). Qualitative Data Analysis. London, Sage Publications.

Potter, J., & Wetherell, M. (1987). Discourse and social psychology. London: Sage Publications.

Ritchie, J. and J. Lewis (2003). Qualitative research practice. London, SAGE. 

Silverman, D. (2005). Doing Qualitative Research: A Practical Handbook. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.

Strauss, A. and J. Corbin, Eds. (1997). Grounded theory in practice. Thousand Oaks, Sage.

Willig, C. (2001). Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology: Adventures in theory and method. Buckingham, Open University Press 

Other recommended articles and chapters

Cotterill, P. (1992). "Interviewing women: Issues of friendship, vulnerability, and power." Women's Studies International Forum 15(5/6): 593-606

Cronbach, L. J. (2004). My Current Thoughts on Coefficient Alpha and Successor Procedures. Educational and psychological measurement, 64, 3 391-418.

Finlay, L. (2002). "Outing" the researcher: The provenance, process, and practice of reflexivity. Qualitative Health Research 12(4): 531-545

Gough, Brendan and Madill, Anna (2007). Diversity and Subjectivity within Qualitative Psychology. Real Life Methods Working Paper. www.reallifemethods.ac.uk

Hyde, A., E. Howlett, et al. (2005). The focus group method: Insights from focus group interviews on sexual health with adolescents. Social Science and Medicine 16 (12): 2588-2599

Kitzinger, C. and S. Wilkinson (1997). Validating women's experience? Dilemmas in feminist research. Feminism and Psychology 7(4): 566-574

Levine, & Hullett, (2002). Eta squared, Partial eta Squared and misreporting of effect size in communication research. Human communication research, 28, 612-625

Messick, (1995). Validity of psychological assessment. American Psychologist, 50, 741-749.

Pope, C and Mays, N. (1995). Reaching the parts other methods cannot reach: an introduction to qualitative methods in health and health services research.   British Medical Journal, 1995, 311: 42-45.   

Smith, LT. (1999). Responding to the imperatives of an indigenous agenda: a case study of Maori. In Decolonizing Methodologies: research and indigenous peoples, pp.163-182.

Stringer, E. (1996). Principles of community-based action research. In Action Research, Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage, 15-38.

Wetherell, M., S. Taylor, et al., Eds. (2001). Discourse as Data: A guide for analysis. London, Sage Publications.
 

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