A New Era in Focus Group Research: Challenges, Innovation and Practice

1. Setting the scene for a new era of focus group research; Rosaline S. Barbour.- Part I: Using Focus Groups in New Settings.- 2. Accessing the closed world of professional football; Chris Platts and Andy Smith.- 3. Outsourcing qualitative health research; Laurence Kohn & Wendy Christiaens.- 4. Cross-cultural focus group discussions; Monique M. Hennink.- 5. Exploring Sex, HIV & 'Sensitive' Space(s) among Sexual Minority Young Adults in Thailand; Peter A. Newman, Suchon Tepjan, & Clara Rubincam.- Part 2: Capitalizing on Focus Groups in Mixed Methods Contexts.- 6. Use of focus groups in developing behavioural m-health interventions: A critical review; Helen Eborall & Katie Morton.- 7. Programme evaluation in the Chinese cultural context; Daniel T.L. Shek.- 8. Focus groups in triangulation contexts; Sabine Caillaud and Uwe Flick.- 9. Hybrid focus groups as a means to investigate practical reasoning, learning processes and indigenous activities; Ana Prades, Josep Espluga & Tom Horlick-Jones.- Part III: Innovations in Focus Group Facilitation.- 10. The use of video recording in longitudinal focus group research; Claire Thompson, Daniel J Lewis AND Stephanie J.C. Taylor.- 11. Best practices for Synchronous Online Focus Groups; Bojana Lobe.- 12. Performance-Based Focus Groups; Jennifer Wooten.- 13. Collective production of discourse and the Qualitative School of Madrid; Jorge Ruiz Ruiz.- Part IV: Theoretical Developments.- 14. A kaleidoscope of voices: Using focus groups in a study of rural adolescent girls; Erin E. Seato.- 15. Bringing socio-narratology and visual methods to focus group research; Cassandra Phoenix, Noreen Orr and Meridith Griffin.- 16. Focus groups as anticipatory methodology: A contribution from Science and Technology Studies towards socially-resilient governance; Phil Macnaghten.- 17. Using focus groups to study the process of (de)politicization;Sophie Duchesne.- 18. Practice theoretically inspired focus groups: Socially recognizable performativity?; Bente Halkier.- 19. A call for further innovations in focus groups; David L. Morgan.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137586133
• ISBN13: 9781137586131
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 433 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"