Popularizing Scholarly Research

Popularizing Scholarly Research: Research Methods and Practice contextualizes the role of digital resources such as blogs, social media, and email in the move toward making scholarship accessible and explains the role of research methods in knowledge construction. Topics covered in the book include survey research, interviews, oral history, ethnography, autoethnography, evaluation, literature, visual art, health, theatre, narrative film, and a range of methods that rely on the internet and social media.

Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is an independent sociologist and bestselling author. She has published over thirty-five books, earning commercial and critical success in both nonfiction and fiction, and her work has been translated into many languages. Among her book publications, she is the author of Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice, now in its third edition, and Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Approaches. She has received career awards from the New England Sociological Association, the American Creativity Association, the American Educational Research Association, the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, and the National Art Education Association. In 2018, she was honored by the National Women's Hall of Fame and SUNY-New Paltz established the "Patricia Leavy Award for Art and Social Justice." Her website is www.patricialeavy.com.

Popularizing Scholarly Research: Research Methods and Practices
Preface
1. Introducing Research Methods and Practices for Popularizing Research, Patricia Leavy
2. Survey Research, Mitchell Brown, Auburn University
3. Interviews: Using Conversations in Public Scholarship, Svend Brinkmann
4. Oral History, The Public Record, and The Story, Valerie J. Janesick
5. Public Ethnography, Tony E. Adams and Robin M. Boylorn
6. An Autoethnography of Working, Failing, and Reworking Public Scholarship, Andrew F. Herrmann and
Art Herbig
7. Letters From the Field, Brisolara, S., Seigart, D., Mathes, K., Nicholds, T., Ewert, R.,
and Holiday-Shchedrov, D.
8. Literature and Creative Writing as Public Scholarship, Sandra L. Faulkner and Sheila Squillante
9. Health Theatre: Embodying Research, Susan Cox and George Belliveau
10. Narrative Film as Public Scholarship, Yen Yen Woo
11. Visual Art Campaigns, Raisa Foster
12. Cellphilms in Public Scholarship, Katie MacEntee, Casey Burkholder, and Joshua Schwab-Cartas
13. Online, Asynchronous Data Collection in Qualitative Research, Tracy Spencer, Linnea Rademaker, Peter Williams, and Cynthia Loubier
14. #spacesforknowledgeproduction, Daniel T. Barney, Lorrie Blair, and Juan Carlos Castro
15. Public Scholarship Goes Online: Email as Method, Adrienne Trier-Bieniek