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Holloway, I. and Wheeler, S. (2010). Qualitative Research in Nursing and Healthcare, 3rd ed. Oxford:Blackwell.

Abstract
The third edition of this successful book incorporates recent developments in nursing research, with updates to every chapter. Abstract ideas in qualitative research are clearly explained and more complex theories are included. Structured into four clear sections, the book looks at initial stages, methods of data collection, qualitative approaches and analysis of collected data.

Qualitative Research in Nursing and Healthcare
by Professor Immy Holloway and Stephanie Wheeler

Brand new chapter on Mixed Methods Research
Considers a variety of approaches from Ethnography to Action Research
Allows the reader to dip in and out depending on their choice of approach
Detailed reference lists provide guidance for further reading
Links research with real nursing practice through relevant examples throughout

Professor Immy Holloway has been at Bournemouth University since its inception and works in the School of Health and Social Care. Though now retired from full-time work, she still takes an active in teaching and PhD supervision. She wrote, edited and co-wrote several books in the field of qualitative research which have been translated into several languages and published articles in peer reviewed journals.

Stephanie Wheeler, an academic with a nursing and health visiting background, is a specialist in healthcare ethics and was for many years chair of an ethics committee. She has given lectures on ethics all over the UK, organised research conferences in qualitative research and also published in this field.

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Holloway, I. (2008) A–Z of Qualitative Research in Nursing and Healthcare, 2nd ed. Oxford:Blackwell.

Abstract
The A–Z of Qualitative Research in Healthcare is a highly accessible text that provides healthcare researchers with quick access to the descriptions and explanations of the concepts, methods and processes used in qualitative research. The book offers a clear introduction to the topic, including an overview of qualitative research, its development and the methodological issues involved.

A–Z of Qualitative Research in Nursing and Health care
by Professor Immy Holloway

The main section of text is a comprehensive list of the terms and concepts used in qualitative research with a full description and explanation for each entry. The section is ordered alphabetically for quick and easy access to the information and cross references are included within the descriptions to enable the reader to follow a particular line of enquiry.

The Second Edition has been fully revised and updated and is now clearly focused on qualitative research as it applies to the healthcare sector. In addition each entry now includes a list of key texts to encourage the reader to take their research further.

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Biley, F. C. and Galvin, K. T. (2007). Lifeworld, the arts and mental health nursing. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 14 (8), 800–807.

Abstract
Various manifestations of the arts have been employed in mental health care as successful diversional and therapeutic interventions, and as an adjunct to mental healthcare professional education. There is now a current groundswell of the use of the arts and humanities in both the practice of research and the representation and dissemination of findings. Here, we first point to the potential ability of the arts that can be used to re-humanize the world of health and social care and its underpinning sciences. Second, we highlight the nature and relevance of this more aesthetic movement and its potential to enable meaningful engagement with people in order to facilitate shared understandings of concretely lived experiences. Finally, we use a long-standing philosophical framework, the ‘lifeworld’, as an exemplar to demonstrate how the wholeness and essence of human being can be revealed or shown through art. In doing so, we make the tentative suggestion that phenomenology and the lifeworld approach may be a useful philosophical framework for underpinning the use of arts in mental health nursing.

Galvin, K. & Todres, L. (2007). The creativity of ‘unspecialisation’: a contemplative direction for integrative scholarly practice. Phenomenology and Practice 1(1).

Abstract
Within the context of health and social care education, attempts to define ‘scholarship’ have increasingly transcended traditional academic conceptions of the term. While acknowledging that many applied disciplines call for a kind of ‘actionable knowledge’ that is also not separate from its ethical dimensions, engagement in the caring professions in particular provides an interesting exemplar that raises questions about the nature and practice of ‘actionable knowledge’: how is such knowledge from different domains (the head, hand and heart) integrated and sustained? This paper is theoretical and wishes to outline some philosophical ideas that may be important when considering the characteristics of the kind of scholarship for caring practices that draw on deep resources for creativity and integration. Firstly, there is an attempt to clarify the nature of scholarly practice by drawing on Aristotle’s notion of ‘phronesis’ (practical wisdom). Secondly, a more meditative approach to the integration of knowledge, action and ethics is highlighted. Finally, its implications for scholarship are introduced, in which scholarly integration may best be served by may best be served by more contemplative ways of being and thinking. Drawing on Heidegger and Gendlin, we consider the challenges of contemplative thinking for pursuing scholarly practice. We articulate contemplative thinking as an unspecialised mode of being that is given to human beings as an intimate source of creativity. The sense in which unspecialisation can be cultivated and practised is discussed.

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Holloway, I. & Freshwater, D. (2007). Narrative Research in Nursing. Blackwell Publishing:Oxford.

Narrative research is an increasingly popular way of carrying out qualitative research by analysing the stories or experience. The findings of this type of qualitative research can be used to improve nursing education, nursing practice and patient care and to explore the experience of illness and the interaction between professionals. Narrative Research in Nursing provides a comprehensive yet straightforward introduction to narrative research which examines the skills needed to perform narrative interviews, analyse data, and publish results and enables nurse researchers to use the method systematically and rigorously.

Narrative Research in Nursing
Co-authored by Professor Immy Holloway

Narrative Research in Nursing examines the nature of narratives and their role in the development of nursing and health care. Strategies and procedures are identified, including the practicalities of sampling, data collection, analysis and presentation of findings. The authors discuss authenticity of evidence and ethical issues while also exploring problems and practicalities inherent in narrative inquiry and its dissemination. Narrative Research in Nursing is a valuable resource for nurses interested in writing and publishing narrative research

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Jones, K.

Jones, K. (Special Issue Editor) with M. Gergen, J. J. Guiney Yallop, I, Lopez de Vallejo, B. Roberts & P. (Co-Editors) (2008) Forum: Qualitative Social Research Special Issue on performative Social Science (42 articles) 9:2 (May 2008). Available at: FQS Website External Link

Gergen, M., Jones K. (2008) Editorial: “A Conversation about Performative Social Science”. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 9(2), Art. 43. http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-08/08-2-43-e.htm External Link

The aim of the Special Issue is to bring thoughtful reflections on and manifestations of Performative Social Science (PSS). It establishes a foundational reference for the performative turn in Social Science. The FQS Special Issue contains over 100 photographs and almost 50 illustrations, as well as 36 videos and two audio-recordings. Diverse textual forms of representation include over 50 poems, three scripted conversations and a play. This Special Issue showcases an impressive range of methods, techniques and philosophical underpinnings.

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Todres, L. (2007). Embodied Enquiry. Palgrave Macmillan:Basingstoke

Drawing on a particular emphasis within the phenomenological tradition as exemplified by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Eugene Gendlin, this book considers the role of the lived body as a way of knowing and being. The author, a psychologist, psychotherapist and qualitative researcher pursues this theme within the three practical contexts that illustrate some of the nuances of embodied enquiry:

In research methodology: how embodied understanding is not just 'cognitive', but involves embodied, aesthetic experience and application
In spirituality: how embodied understanding opens up a view of human existence that lies between great freedom and great vulnerability, a view of spirituality that integrates the personal and the transpersonal
In psychotherapy: how embodied understanding may occur through the process of psychotherapy where one is able to increasingly experience oneself as 'more than' the ways one has been objectified and defined (freedom), and therefore, more fluidly in accord with the human realm (vulnerability)

Embodied Enquiry by Professor Les Todres

The three sections of the book also provide examples of how embodied enquiry is not just a philosophical perspective but also a practice with very tangible implications for research, psychotherapy and spirituality. The integrating theme that is threaded through these three practical contexts is the concern to articulate and demonstrate a knowledge-practice that is both personally transformative and intersubjectively humanising. The ideas and illustrations in the book may be particularly relevant in these current times where the de-personalisation and de-humanisation of self and other are rampant in obscuring the human ground that we share.

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