Explaining both why and how to use mixed methods for discovering solutions to complex research problems, this guide gives readers the tools to adapt approaches to suit their own research conditions. Written in a warm, encouraging tone and packed with helpful diagrams and visual organizers, it provides an easy-to-follow map to the mixed methods process, covering everything from ‘what is mixed methods research?’ to framing, integrating, and describing a complexity-sensitive mixed methods approach.
Features include:
- Key questions to navigate the important concepts of each chapter
- Practice alerts to provide practical tips on working in the field
- Chapter check-ins to assess development of key skills
- Further reading to expand and deepen knowledge of mixed methods practices
- An annotated glossary to get to grips with foundational terms and revise for exams
Supported throughout by real-world examples and advice from the author and other mixed methods experts, this book helps readers succeed in their projects and think innovatively about the methods they use.
Cheryl N. Poth, PhD, is a Professor in the Faculty of Education and faculty member of the
research-intensive Centre for Research and Applied Measurement and Evaluation at the
University of Alberta. In this role, she has developed and taught graduate-level research methods
and program evaluation courses in addition to supervising and mentoring students, faculty,
and local as well as global community members in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods
research. She is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, three books as well as
numerous book chapters. Her work has been recognized by the American Educational Research
Association with the Division D Significant Contributions to Research Methodology Award
in 2023 (with Peggy Shannon-Baker) and by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association
with the Most Promising New Textbook Award in 2020 and the McGuffey Longevity Award
for Qualitative Research book in 2018 (with John Creswell). She served as Editor of the SAGE
Handbook of Mixed Methods Research (2023) and as Guest Coeditor of several journal special
issues, including the International Journal of Qualitative Methods. In addition to more than
40 invited talks and 150 conference presentations, she has led research methods workshops
with diverse audiences on four continents. She served as an Advisory Board Member of the
International Institute of Qualitative Methodology (2014–2020); the President of the Mixed
Methods International Research Association (2017–2018); a Research Fellow at the University
of South Africa (2018–2020); a Helen Glass Scholar in the College of Nursing within the Rady
Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba (2022); and as a MERIT Visiting
Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University (2023–2025). In 2009, she
cofounded the interdisciplinary Alberta Clinical and Community-Based Evaluation Research
Team to advance innovative community–university research partnership supports for program
planning and impact assessments of service delivery for individuals with complex needs. She
serves as the Methodologist on several cross-disciplinary research teams and has led federally,
provincially, and locally funded research projects. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of
Mixed Methods Research and is an editorial board member of several journals. Updates on her
work can be found on her website at https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/cheryl-poth/.
