Participatory Qualitative Research Methodologies in Health - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Gina Higginbottom holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Ethnicity and Health and is Professor in the Faculty of Nursing, at the University of Alberta. Gina′s research portfolio focuses on ethnic minority populations and immigrant health using participatory models of research and ethnography. She has a particular focus on the broad issue of social exclusion and equity in health care, lay understandings of health and illness. A second theme in her research portfolio has focused on maternal health and well being including parenting issues, early parenthood and postnatal depression in different ethnic minority groups. Gina has been Principal Investigator on 17 nationally and internationally funded qualitative research studies, currently she holds three Canadian Institute for Health grants. Gina is Assistant Editor of Ethnicity and Health journal and co-chair of the IIQM′s 2013 Thinking Qualitative Conference 2013 and an Affiliate Scholar of IIQM as well as an advisory board member of IIQM. Gina is an experienced educator with a professional teaching qualification who has facilitated many undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs in the UK and Canada. 

Professor Pranee Liamputtong is professor of public health, at the School of Science and Health, Western Sydney University, Australia. Her particular interests include issues related to cultural and social influences on childbearing, childrearing, motherhood, infant feeding practices, and reproductive and sexual health. Her current research also includes HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, and sexuality. She has published several books and a large number of papers in these areas. She is a qualitative researcher, and written and edited a number of research method books. Two of her methods books have been adopted widely nationally and internationally, and these include Qualitative Research Methods, 4th ed (Oxford University Press, 2013), and Research Methods in Health: Foundations for Evidence-Based Practice (Oxford University Press, 2010, 2013, 2017).