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This delightful book will be important to those researchers eager to extendtheir knowledge of qualitative research generally but specifically those keento extend their research practice from a socialscience perspective NurseResearcherThis is an excellent collection at the cutting edge of thinking aboutqualitative research.... The breadth of coverage and the sophistication of thediscussion make this an important addition to the increasing literature onqualitative work Jonathan Potter Loughborough UniversityThis book is likely to have a broad appeal to a rising generation ofqualitative researchers seeking to relate theoretical debates to methodologicalpractice Clive Seale Goldsmiths CollegeThis exciting new book brings together contributions from worldleadingscholars as well as younger researchers and focuses on cuttingedge issuesrelated to the practice of qualitative research in the field. It provides aforum for contributors to discuss the issues and processes which informqualitative research in its various forms as based on fieldwork experiences.In achieving this in an accessible manner to both practising students andresearchers it seeks to enable a dialogue over ideas and provide the readerwith a state of the art overview of the topic from a contemporaryperspective.Rather than being a how to do book this volume should prove vitally usefulfor advanced students and researchers who wish to engage with those ideas andpractices in terms of their applicability for an understanding and explanationof the place of qualitative research in the social sciences. It is also a forumin which leading scholars make an original contribution to the subject.Lively and highly readable throughout Qualitative Research in Action will beessential reading for advanced undergraduates and above in a variety ofdisciplines as well as researchers who wish to engage with contemporary ideasand practices in relation to qualitative research. «