Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation
A Road Map From Beginning to End
- Linda Dale Bloomberg - Bloomberg Associates, Institute for Learning Innovations and Adult Development (ILIAD), National University
Addressing the key challenges facing doctoral students, this text fills a gap in qualitative literature by offering comprehensive guidance and practical tools for navigating each step in the qualitative dissertation journey, including the planning, research, and writing phases. Author Linda Dale Bloomberg blends the conceptual, theoretical, and practical, so that the book becomes a dissertation in action—a logical and cohesive explanation and illustration of content and process.
The Fifth Edition includes a greater focus on how qualitative traditions or genres can encompass a critical social justice agenda, and this broader coverage allows the book to have wider application for dissertation work within the constantly evolving field of qualitative inquiry. This edition also addresses some significant changes in the field that have come about since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, impacting how to conduct dissertation research both ethically and credibly by adopting new and innovative methods and approaches. A greater focus on ethics, rigor, researcher positionality, and reflexivity is highlighted and interwoven throughout.
The companion website with multiple supplementary instructive materials to support the book is available at: edge.sagepub.com/bloomberg-qualitative-5e
As a dissertation chair for students pursuing degrees in the STEM disciplines, I always love introducing these doctoral candidates to the beauty of qualitative research. Dr. Bloomberg's textbook helps me illustrate the advantages of the methodology. The explanations are rich in meaningful and helpful details. Some of my students have expressed their excitement and further interest in doing a qualitative study, much thanks to the thoroughness and straightforward directions in the book.
Great resources, easy to read and implement
The comprehensiveness and clarity of the text and supporting resources.
This is a great book for students who often feel very uncertain about qualitative research and if it is good enough. This book offers guidance and normalises any uncertainty and emphasises the role that the researcher plays in qualitative studies.
