Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches

About Cheryl N. PothJohn W. Creswell

John W. Creswell PhD is a Professor of Family Medicine and Senior Research Scientist of the Michigan Mixed Methods Program. He has authored numerous articles and 34 books on mixed methods research qualitative research and research design. While at the University of NebraskaLincoln he held the Clifton Endowed Professor Chair served as Director of the Mixed Methods Research Office co-founded SAGEs Journal of Mixed Methods Research and was an Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan and a consultant to the Veterans Administration Health Services Research Center in Ann Arbor Michigan. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar to South Africa in 2008 and to Thailand in 2012. In 2011 he co-led a National Institutes of Health working group on the best practices of mixed methods research in the health sciences served as a Visiting Professor at Harvards School of Public Health and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria South Africa. In 2014 he was the founding President of the Mixed Methods International Research Association. In 2015 he joined the staff of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan to Co-Direct the Michigan Mixed Methods Program. In 2017 he coauthored the American Psychological Association standards on qualitative and mixed methods research. The fourth edition of this book on Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design won the 2018 McGuffey Longevity Award from the U.S. Textbook & Academic Authors Association. During the COVID-19 pandemic he gave virtual keynote presentations to many countries from his office in Osaka Japan. Updates on his work can be found on his website at johnwcreswell.com. Cheryl N. Poth PhD is a Professor in the Faculty of Education and faculty member of the research-intensive Centre for Research and Applied Measurement and Evaluation at the University of Alberta. In this role she has developed and taught graduate-level research methods and program evaluation courses in addition to supervising and mentoring students faculty and local as well as global community members in qualitative quantitative and mixed methods research. She is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles three books as well as numerous book chapters. Her work has been recognized by the American Educational Research Association with the Division D Significant Contributions to Research Methodology Award in 2023 (with Peggy Shannon-Baker) and by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association with the Most Promising New Textbook Award in 2020 and the McGuffey Longevity Award for Qualitative Research book in 2018 (with John Creswell). She served as Editor of the SAGE Handbook of Mixed Methods Research (2023) and as Guest Coeditor of several journal special issues including the International Journal of Qualitative Methods. In addition to more than 40 invited talks and 150 conference presentations she has led research methods workshops with diverse audiences on four continents. She served as an Advisory Board Member of the International Institute of Qualitative Methodology (20142020); the President of the Mixed Methods International Research Association (20172018); a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa (20182020); a Helen Glass Scholar in the College of Nursing within the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba (2022); and as a MERIT Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University (20232025). In 2009 she cofounded the interdisciplinary Alberta Clinical and Community-Based Evaluation Research Team to advance innovative communityuniversity research partnership supports for program planning and impact assessments of service delivery for individuals with complex needs. She serves as the Methodologist on several cross-disciplinary research teams and has led federally provincially and locally funded research projects. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research and is an editorial board member of several journals. Updates on her work can be found on her website at https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/cheryl-poth/.