This comprehensive text provides a practical introduction to the range of qualitative methodologies and methods being used by occupational science and occupational therapy researchers today, enabling readers to produce and critique high-quality qualitative research themselves. Showcasing a diverse range of qualitative research from both academic scholarship and the wider community of health professionals, each chapter combines both foundational knowledge and therapeutic applications. Importantly, the book lucidly explains the synergy between research problem, choice of methodology, and methods. It also fosters a best-practice approach, ensuring that qualitative research is epistemologically sound while reflecting the values and beliefs of the diverse communities within which research is conducted. This new edition, featuring an international range of authors, also addresses new and cutting-edge research methodologies, including indigenous methodologies, netnography, the visual arts, and big data. It is the ideal textbook for any student, practitioner, or researcher of occupational science and occupational therapy.

This comprehensive text provides a practical introduction to the range of qualitative methodologies and methods being used by occupational science and occupational therapy researchers today, enabling readers to produce and critique high-quality qualitative research themselves. Showcasing a diverse range of qualitative research from both academic scholarship and the wider community of health professionals, each chapter combines both foundational knowledge and therapeutic applications. Importantly, the book lucidly explains the synergy between research problem, choice of methodology, and methods. It also fosters a best-practice approach, ensuring that qualitative research is epistemologically sound while reflecting the values and beliefs of the diverse communities within which research is conducted. This new edition, featuring an international range of authors, also addresses new and cutting-edge research methodologies, including indigenous methodologies, netnography, the visual arts, and big data. It is the ideal textbook for any student, practitioner, or researcher of occupational science and occupational therapy.

The push for evidence-based practice has increased the demand for high-quality occupational science and occupational therapy research from conceptualisation of the study through to publication. This invaluable collection explores how to produce rigorous qualitative research by presenting and discussing a range of methodologies and methods that can be used in the fields of occupational science and therapy. Each chapter, written by an experienced researcher in the relevant methodology, includes examples of research, foundational knowledge and therapeutic applications. Including new and cutting-edge methodologies, the book covers: Qualitative Descriptive Grounded Theory Phenomenology Narrative Ethnography Action Research Case Study Critical Discourse Analysis Visual Methodologies Metasynthesis Appreciative Inquiry Critical Theory and Philosophy Designed for occupational science and occupational therapy researchers, this book develops the reader's ability to produce and critique high quality qualitative research that is epistemologically sound and rigorous.

The push for evidence-based practice has increased the demand for high-quality occupational science and occupational therapy research from conceptualisation of the study through to publication. This invaluable collection explores how to produce rigorous qualitative research by presenting and discussing a range of methodologies and methods that can be used in the fields of occupational science and therapy.

Each chapter, written by an experienced researcher in the relevant methodology, includes examples of research, foundational knowledge and therapeutic applications. Including new and cutting-edge methodologies, the book covers:

• Qualitative Descriptive
• Grounded Theory
• Phenomenology
• Narrative
• Ethnography
• Action Research
• Case Study
• Discourse Analysis
• Visual Methodologies
• Metasynthesis
• Appreciative Inquiry
• Critical Theory and Philosophy
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Designed for occupational science and occupational therapy researchers, this book develops the reader s ability to produce and critique high quality qualitative research that is epistemologically sound and rigorous."""

Indian immigrant women are a growing minority within the multicultural spaces of New Zealand society; yet despite the long history of Indian settlers in New Zealand, the experiences of Indian women settling in a new and unfamiliar environment have been largely overlooked. International migration is a complex process involving multiple changes in physical, economic, political, social and cultural aspects of context; within which a range of transitions relating to place and occupation unfold. The significance of this work is that it reveals how the everyday occupations of Indian immigrant women are constantly modified through their interaction and interpretations of the environment, thus allowing them to move between and within the multicultural spaces of New Zealand society. This gives rise to the theory of Navigating Cultural Spaces which frames settlement as an ongoing and dynamic process. The analysis provides new perspectives on settlement processes that occur within the context of immigration and should be especially useful to scholars and policy makers in the fields of sociology, occupational science and immigration studies.