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About John W. Creswell

John W. Creswell PhD is a professor of family medicine and senior research scientist at the Michigan Mixed Methods Program at the University of Michigan. He has authored numerous articles and 30 books on mixed methods research qualitative research and research design. While at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln he held the Clifton Endowed Professor Chair served as Director of the Mixed Methods Research Office 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 Institute of Health working group on the best practices of mixed methods research in the health sciences and in 2014 served as a visiting professor at Harvards School of Public Health. 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 2016 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria South Africa. In 2017 he co-authored the American Psychological Association standards on qualitative and mixed methods research. In 2018 his book on Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design (with Cheryl Poth) won the Textbook and Academic Authors 2018 McGuffey Longevity Award in the United States. He currently makes his home in Ashiya Japan and Honolulu Hawaii.