Chapter 1 Research as practice: Contextualising applied research in the South African context – Sherianne Kramer, Angelo Fynn and Sumaya Laher
Section 1 Quantitative methods
Chapter 2 Non-experimental research designs: Investigating the spatial distribution and social ecology of male homicide – Lu-Anne Swart, Sherianne Kramer, Kopano Ratele and Mohamed Seedat
Chapter 3 Longitudinal designs: The RANCH-SA study – Kate Cockcroft, Paul Goldschagg and Joseph Seabi
Chapter 4 Establishing factorial validity of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale: A cross-sectional design – Malose Makhubela and Solomon Mashegoane
Chapter 5 Using the WAIS-III to illustrate test norming strategies for valid cognitive assessment: A non-experimental design – Ann B. Shuttleworth-Edwards
Chapter 6 Quasi-experimental designs in applied behavioural health research – Brendon R. Barnes
Chapter 7 Experimental research: Randomised control trials to evaluate task-shifting interventions – Goodman Sibeko and Dan J. Stein
Chapter 8 Repeated-measures Factorial Design: Exploring working memory interactions in earworms – Thomas Geffen and Michael Pitman
Chapter 9 Q Methodology: Patterns of subjectivity in academic misconduct – Gillian Finchilescu and Saloshni MuthalSection 2 Qualitative methods
Chapter 10 Systematic case study research in clinical and counselling psychology – David J.A. Edwards
Chapter 11 Doing psychobiography: The case of Christiaan Barnard – Roelf van Niekerk, Tracey Prenter and Paul Fouché
Chapter 12 Narrative research in career counselling: The career construction interview – Jacobus G. Maree
Chapter 13 Interrogating grounded theory in meaning-making of voluntary medical adult male circumcision for HIV prevention – Lynlee Howard-Payne
Chapter 14 Feminist approaches: An exploration of women’s gendering experiences – Peace Kiguwa
Chapter 15 The power of critical discourse analysis: Investigating female-perpetrated sex abuse victim discourses – Sherianne Kramer
Chapter 16 Using ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to study racial social categories in radio talk – Kevin A. Whitehead
Chapter 17 Autoethnography: Locating the voice of the self in post-apartheid South Africa – Jeanette Schmid
Chapter 18 Genealogy in practice: Labour, discipline and power in the production of the South African mine worker – Brett Bowman, Ian Siemers and Kevin A. WhiteheadSection 3 Transparadigmatic methods
Chapter 19 Transformative mixed methods research in South Africa: Contributions to social justice – Brendon R. Barnes
Chapter 20 Design research: Developing effective feedback interventions for school-based monitoring – Elizabeth Archer
Chapter 21 Appreciative inquiry as transformative methodology: Case studies in health and wellness – Kathryn Nel and Saraswathie Govender
Chapter 22 Photovoice methodologies for social justice – Shose Kessi, Debbie Kaminer, Floretta Boonzaier and Despina Learmonth
Chapter 23 Action and community-based research: Improving local governance practices through the community scorecard – Diana Sanchez-Betancourt and Elmé Vivier
Chapter 24 Trends in social science research in Africa: Rigour, relevance and responsibility – Sumaya Laher, Angelo Fynn and Sherianne Kramer