A New Era in Focus Group Research : Challenges, Innovation and Practice

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This volume provides a critical approach to using focus groups, examining how focus groups have been utilized to research a diverse set of research questions covering a broad spectrum of substantive fields. The collection acknowledges the tensions between different research traditions, disciplinary emphases, funding climates, cultural, political, and ethical contexts, and the ever-changing policy backdrop. Contributors to this book encourage researchers to question and surmount disciplinary and terminological labels and disputes in order to capitalize on the full potential of focus groups, to illuminate the complex collaborative processes involved in forming, debating, contesting, and revising opinions; making decisions; and forging identities. The four sections that comprise this collection address, respectively, using focus groups in novel contexts; employing focus groups in mixed methods research designs; innovations in generating focus group data; and new theoretical developments. A New Era in Focus Group Researchwill be of interest to students and scholars across disciplines as well as focus group practitioners outside of academia. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Setting the Scene for a New Era of Focus Group Research (Rosaline S. Barbour)....Pages 1-13 Front Matter ....Pages 15-15 Outsiders on the Inside: Focus Group Research with Elite Youth Footballers (Chris Platts, Andy Smith)....Pages 17-34 Reflections on Outsourcing and Applying for Funding (Laurence Kohn, Wendy Christiaens)....Pages 35-58 Cross-Cultural Focus Group Discussions (Monique M. Hennink)....Pages 59-82 Exploring Sex, HIV and ‘Sensitive’ Space(s) Among Sexual and Gender Minority Young Adults in Thailand (Peter A. Newman, Suchon Tepjan, Clara Rubincam)....Pages 83-106 Front Matter ....Pages 107-107 Use of Focus Groups in Developing Behavioural mHealth Interventions: A Critical Review (Helen Eborall, Katie Morton)....Pages 109-127 The Use of Focus Groups in Programme Evaluation: Experience Based on the Project P.A.T.H.S. in a Chinese Context (Daniel T. L. Shek)....Pages 129-153 Focus Groups in Triangulation Contexts (Sabine Caillaud, Uwe Flick)....Pages 155-177 Hybrid Focus Groups as a Means to Investigate Practical Reasoning, Learning Processes and Indigenous Activities (Ana Prades, Josep Espluga, Tom Horlick-Jones)....Pages 179-204 Front Matter ....Pages 205-205 The Use of Video Recording in Longitudinal Focus Group Research (Claire Thompson, Daniel J Lewis, Stephanie J C Taylor)....Pages 207-225 Best Practices for Synchronous Online Focus Groups (Bojana Lobe)....Pages 227-250 Performance-Based Focus Groups (Jennifer Wooten)....Pages 251-275 Collective Production of Discourse: An Approach Based on the Qualitative School of Madrid (Jorge Ruiz Ruiz)....Pages 277-300 Front Matter ....Pages 301-301 A Kaleidoscope of Voices: Using Focus Groups in a Study of Rural Adolescent Girls (Erin E. Seaton)....Pages 303-323 Bringing Socio-Narratology and Visual Methods to Focus Group Research (Cassandra Phoenix, Noreen Orr, Meridith Griffin)....Pages 325-342 Focus Groups as Anticipatory Methodology: A Contribution from Science and Technology Studies Towards Socially Resilient Governance (Phil Macnaghten)....Pages 343-363 Using Focus Groups to Study the Process of (de)Politicization (Sophie Duchesne)....Pages 365-387 Practice Theoretically Inspired Focus Groups: Socially Recognizable Performativity? (Bente Halkier)....Pages 389-410 Conclusions: A Call for Further Innovations in Focus Groups (David L. Morgan)....Pages 411-420 Back Matter ....Pages 421-433