Linda Finlay & Claire Ballinger 
Qualitative Research for Allied Health Professionals 
Challenging Choices

This practical text addresses a gap in the literature by mapping
the links between philosophy, research method and practice in an
accessible, readable way. It offers guidance to allied health
professionals – increasingly involved in research as the
emphasis grows on evidence-based practice – on how to engage
in meaningful, good quality qualitative research.

To help researchers take on this challenge, the book:

* highlights some of the choices involved in carrying out
qualitative research

* offers a wide range of practical examples to show how different
ways of doing qualitative research can be managed

* critically examines a variety of qualitative research
methodologies of particular interest to allied health
professionals

* clarifies the links between epistemology, methodology and
method.

The book is structured in three parts. Part I sensitises
readers to the complex issues which challenge qualitative
researchers at the planning stage of their projects. In Part II,
the challenge of using different methodologies is critically
explored by fifteen authors, who describe their individual
research experiences. Part III examines the choices researchers
make when they evaluate and present research.

विषयसूची

Contributors.

Prologue.

PART I: Planning the research.

Chapter 1: ‘Going exploring’: The nature of
qualitative research (Linda Finlay).

Chapter 2: Mapping methodology (Linda Finlay).

Chapter 3: Strategic choices in research planning (Barbara
Steward).

Chapter 4 Ethical and governance issues in qualitative research
(Claire Ballinger and Rose Wiles).

PART II: Doing the research.

Chapter 5: A grounded theory of the wellbeing of older people
(Mandy Stanley).

Chapter 6: An ethnography of physiotherapy culture (Barbara
Richardson).

Chapter 7: Investigating invisible groups using mixed
methodologies (Barbara Steward).

Chapter 8: Communication practices in physiotherapy: A
conversation analytic study (Ruth H. Parry).

Chapter 9: Using biographical research with disabled young
people (Michael Curtin).

Chapter 10: Low back pain: Exploring the meaning of exercise
management through interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)
(Sarah G. Dean, Jonathan A. Smith and Sheila Payne).

Chapter 11: Using a biographic-narrative-interpretive method:
Exploring motivation in mental health (Tanya Campbell-Breen and
Fiona Poland).

Chapter 12: Empowering young people through participatory
research? (Anne Killett).

Chapter 13: The embodied experience of multiple sclerosis: An
existential-phenomenological analysis (Linda Finlay).

Chapter 14: Discourse analysis in action: The construction of
risk in a community day hospital (Claire Ballinger and Julianne
Cheek).

Chapter 15: A case study of unconscious processes in an
organisation (Paula Hyde).

PART III: Presenting the research.

Chapter 16: Demonstrating rigour and quality? (Claire
Ballinger).

Chapter 17: Disseminating the research: Towards knowledge (Linda
Finlay and Barbara Steward).

Glossary.

Index.

लेखक के बारे में

Linda Finlay Ph D, BA(Hons), Dip COT, Academic Consultant, The
Open University, Milton Keynes and MSc dissertation supervisor
Physiotherapy & OT, University of East London, UK.

Claire Ballinger Ph D, MSc, Dip COT, Reader in Occupational
Therapy, London South Bank University, UK.