The authors take the stance that qualitative research is a broad approach that encompasses and encourages difference and uncertainty, and provide a routemap to this uncertain but fruitful line of inquiry.

@contents: Preface 1. Introduction Maggi Savin-Baden and Claire Howell Major Part I: Stances 2. Positioning Positionality: The Reflexive Turn Glynis Cousin 3. Values and Virtues in Qualitative Research Bruce Macfarlane 4. Re-Locating Truths in the Qualitative Research Paradigm Lana Van Niekerk and Maggi Savin-Baden 5. Imagining Intersectionality and the Spaces in Between Rebecca Ropers-Huilman and Kelly T. Winters 6. Taking a Stance Madeleine Duncan and Ruth Watson Part II: Methodologies and Methods 7. Writing Ethnodrama Johnny Saldaña 8. Narrative Theory and the Construction of Qualitative Texts Julia Colyar and Karri Holley 9. Multimodality, Visual Methodologies and Higher Education Lesley Gourlay 10. Participatory Action Research Katherine Wimpenny 11. Deliberative Inquiry Heather Kanuka 12. Qualitative Research Synthesis Claire Howell Major and Maggi Savin-Baden Part III: Places and Spaces 13. Locating Space in Qualitative Research Paddy O'Toole 14. Listening Spaces Theresa Lorenzo 15. The Politics of Space in Qualitative Research Aaron M. Kuntz 16. Urban Ethnography Kristanm. Venegas and Adrian H. Huerta 17. Researching in Immersive Spaces Maggi Savin-Baden, Lesley Gourlay and Cathy Tombs Afterword Maggi Savin-Baden and Claire Major