Qualitative Research and Hypermedia

Bella Dicks has published and researched in the areas of qualitative methodology, heritage and museums, regeneration and post-industrial identities, cultural display and digital methodologies. She has written a number of books, including: Heritage, Place and Community (University of Wales Press, 2000); Out of the Ashes (with David Waddington, Chas Critcher and David Parry: Routledge, 2001); Culture on Display (Open University Press, 2004); Children, Place and Identity (with Jonathan Scourfield, Mark Drakeford and Andrew Davies: Routledge, 2006) Qualitative Research and Ethnography (with Bruce Mason, Amanda Coffey and Paul Atkinson: Sage 2005) and edited the four-volume set Digital Qualitative Research Methods (Sage 2012). My research interests are underpinned by a sustained, critical methodological engagement with ethnographic and qualitative research. This includes work on contemporary developments in qualitative data analysis, writing and representation, as well as a focus on of the self and (auto)biography in qualitative inquiry. I have led and been involved in a number of funded projects focussing on qualitative research methods and methodological development. I am currently the Director of the Cardiff Node of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact (QUALITI) (2005-8). Paul Atkinson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. His current interest is the work of artists and craft workers. His books include Thinking Ethnographically (Sage, 2017), For Ethnography (Sage, 2014), Everyday Arias (AltaMira, 2006), Interactionism (coauthored with William Housley; Sage, 2003), Key Themes in Qualitative Research (coauthored with Amanda Coffey and Sara Delamount; AltaMira, 2003). He and Sara Delamont were the founding editors of the journal Qualitative Research (Sage). He coedited the Sage Handbook of Ethnography (2001). He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.