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This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. The book challenges some of the emerging orthodoxies and presents accessible, insightful and reflective discussions about the issues around focus group work.

The contributors, an impressive group of experienced researchers from a range of disciplines and traditions, discuss different ways of designing, conducting and analyzing focus group research. They examine sampling strategies; the implications of combining focus groups with other methods; accessing views of `minority' groups; their contribution to participatory or feminist research; use of software packages; discourse anal

Rosaline S Barbour teaches at the University of Hull. Jenny Kitzinger teaches at the University of Glasgow and is a member of the Glasgow Media Group.

CONTRIBUTORS

Amanda Amos University of Edinburgh

Rachel Baker University of Durham

Rosaline S Barbour University of Hull

Michael Bloor University of Wales

Sarah Cunningham-Burley University of Edinburgh

Rita Das University College London

Clare Farquhar South Bank University, London

Jane Frankland University of Wales

Judith Green South Bank University, London

Rachel Hinton University of Cambridge

Laura Hart South Bank University, London

Anne Kerr University of Edinburgh

Jenny Kitzinger University of Glasgow

Deborah Knight East Riding Health Authority

Chiu Lai Fong University of Leeds

Lynn Mitchell University of Glasgow

Steve Pavis University of Edinburgh

Edwin van Teijlingen University of Aberdeen

Claire Waterton Lancaster University

Sue Wilkinson Loughborough University

Brian Wynne Lancaster University