Integrating Analyses in Mixed Methods Research

Acquire the tools and strategies you need to confidently and creatively practice integration in mixed methods analysis. Encouraging you to embrace complexity and work across boundaries, this book shows you how to integrate data analytically, and work with the rich findings that result.

With new chapters and an updated structure, this second edition:

• Examines the dimensions of integration, introducing a framework to use in your own research;
• Enables you to ensure conversation takes place between your chosen methodological approaches so you can reap their full potential;
• Presents strategies for managing dissonance and divergence in different types of data;
• Considers how computational approaches like LLMs can aid analysis, while still requiring critical researcher engagement.

Pragmatic and systematic, this is an essential guide for students and researchers conducting mixed methods research.

Pat Bazeley is Director of Research Support P/L and Adjunct Professor in the Translational Research and Social Innovation Centre at Western Sydney University. Since graduating in psychology, she has worked in community development, as an evaluation researcher, and in academic research development. For almost 30 years Pat has been providing research training and project consulting to academics, graduate students and practitioners representing a wide range of disciplines across Australia and internationally. Her particular expertise is in helping researchers to make sense of qualitative, survey, and mixed methods data, and to use computer programs for management and analysis of data. Pat’s research has focused on qualitative and mixed methods data analysis, the development and performance of researchers, and the wellbeing of older women. She has published books, chapters, and articles on mixed methods and qualitative data analysis. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research and was 2015–2016 President of the Mixed Methods International Research Association.

Susanne Vogl is a Full Professor for Sociology and quantitative and qualitative social science research methods at the University of Stuttgart. Her work focusses on social science research methodology beyond paradigmatic boundaries. She engages with theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of research methods as well as their applicability. By critically reflecting on research practice, she advances research methodology and stimulates discussion on best practice. Her substantive fields of research include social inequality, deviant behaviour, young people, family, and the life course.