Author Description

<p>SAGE has been a major force shaping the field of qualitative methods: not just in its specialist methods journals like <i>Qualitative Inquiry</i> but in the 'empirical' journals such as <i>Social Studies of Science</i>. Delving into SAGE's deep backlist of qualitative research methods journals, Paul Atkinson and Sara Delmont, editors of <i>Qualitative Research</i>, have selected over seventy articles to represent SAGE's distinctive contribution to Methods publishing in general and qualitative research in particular. The <b>SAGE Qualitative Research Methods </b>includes research from the past four decades and addresses key issues or controversies, such as explanations and defenses of qualitative methods; ethics; research questions and foreshadowed problems; access; first days in the field; field roles and rapport; practicalities of data collection and recording; data analysis; writing and (re) presentation; the rise of auto-ethnography; life history, narrative and autobiography; CA and DA; and alternatives to the logocentric (such as visual methods).</p>