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Integrating Analyses in Mixed Methods Research
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Integrating Analyses in Mixed Methods Research

Second Edition

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Mixed Methods | Research Methods

March 2026 | 400 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Acquire the tools and strategies you need to confidently and creatively practice integration in mixed methods analysis. Encouraging you to embrace complexity and work across boundaries, this book shows you how to integrate data analytically, and work with the rich findings that result.

With new chapters and an updated structure, this second edition:

  • Examines the dimensions of integration, introducing a framework to use in your own research;
  • Enables you to ensure conversation takes place between your chosen methodological approaches so you can reap their full potential;
  • Presents strategies for managing dissonance and divergence in different types of data;
  • Considers how computational approaches like LLMs can aid analysis, while still requiring critical researcher engagement.

Pragmatic and systematic, this is an essential guide for students and researchers conducting mixed methods research.

 
Part 1: Foundations for Integrated Analysis
 
Chapter 1: Mixed methods in context
 
Chapter 2: Unpacking integration, the dynamic core of mixed methods research
 
Chapter 3: From theory to practice: approaches to integration and design
 
Chapter 4: Design for integration
 
Chapter 5: Working with data: preliminary considerations
 
Part 2: Integrative Analysis Strategies
 
Chapter 6: Sequential integration: analysis interfacing with design and further analysis
 
Chapter 7: Combining diverse approaches in complementary analyses
 
Chapter 8: Connect, compare, and contrast in joint displays
 
Chapter 9: Case-based comparison: integration using matrices and crosstabs
 
Chapter 10: Quantifying qualitative data
 
Chapter 11: From counts and codes to variable data for statistical analysis
 
Chapter 12: Exploring qualitative data with multivariate analyses
 
Chapter 13: Transforming numeric data to create descriptive and narrative accounts
 
Chapter 14: Using integrative strategies in combination
 
Part 3: Engaging with Complexity
 
Chapter 15: Complex mixed methods applications
 
Chapter 16: Integrating computational approaches in mixed methods analyses
 
Chapter 17: Exploring dissonance and divergence
 
Part 4: Negotiated, Warranted Inferences
 
Chapter 18: From integrative analyses to warranted assertions and a coherent, negotiated account

Pat Bazeley

Pat Bazeley is Director of Research Support P/L and Adjunct Professor in the Translational Research and Social Innovation Centre at Western Sydney University. Since graduating in psychology, she has worked in community development, as an evaluation researcher, and in academic research development. For almost 30 years Pat has been providing research training and project consulting to academics, graduate students and practitioners representing a wide range of disciplines across Australia and internationally. Her particular expertise is in helping researchers to make sense of qualitative, survey, and mixed methods data, and to use computer... More About Author

Susanne Vogl

Susanne Vogl is a Full Professor for Sociology and quantitative and qualitative social science research methods at the University of Stuttgart. Her work focusses on social science research methodology beyond paradigmatic boundaries. She engages with theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of research methods as well as their applicability. By critically reflecting on research practice, she advances research methodology and stimulates discussion on best practice. Her substantive fields of research include social inequality, deviant behaviour, young people, family, and the life course. More About Author

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