1. Institute

University of Sussex – Institute of Development Sussex (IDS)

2. Programme

MA in Poverty and Development

3. Course

Designing Critical Enquiry into Practice (2013-2014)

4. Reading List

Session 1: Introduction

• Levin, Morten. 2007. Varieties of Human Inquiry: Collaborative, Action, Self-reflective and Cooperative. in Introduction to action research: social research for social change.
• Bradbury, Hilary. 2001. Conclusion: Broadening the Bandwidth of Validity: Issues and choice points for improving quality in action research. in Handbook of action research: participative inquiry and practice.

Session 2: Ethics and Relationships in Research

• Newton, Esther. 1996. My best informant’s dress: the erotic equation in the field. in Out in the Field: reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists.
• Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1995. ‘The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology.

Session 3: Paradigms and Approaches

• Reason, P. and W. R. Torbert. 2001. The action turn: toward a transformative social science.
• Reason, P. and J. Heron. undated. A short guide to cooperative inquiry.
• Levin, Morten. 2007. An epistemological foundation for action research. in Introduction to action research: social research for social change.
• Reason, P. 2002. Editorial Introduction: The Practice of Cooperative Inquiry.
• Lincoln, Yvonna S. 2011. Paradigmatic Controversies, Contradictions, and Emerging Confluences Revisited. in The SAGE handbook of qualitative research.
• Mikkelsen, Britha. 2005. Different Types of Development Studies – Purpose, Methods and Design. in Methods for development work and research: a new guide for practitioners.

Session 4: Framing the Enquiry

• Punch , Keith F. 2005. Some Central Issues. in Introduction to Social Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches.
• Rossman, Gretchen B. 2011. The What of the study: Building the conceptual framework. in Designing qualitative research.

Session 5: Formulating Questions

• Punch, Keith F. 2005. Research Questions. in Introduction to Social Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches.
• Boolsen, Merete Watt. 2005. Different Types of Development Studies: Purpose, Methods and Designs. in Methods for development work and research: a new guide for practitioners.
• Humphrey, J. and Navas-Alemán, L. 2009. Multinational Value Chains, Small and Medium Enterprises, and ‘Pro-Poor’ Policies: A Review of Donor Practice.
• Edwards, M.. 2011. The Role and Limitations of Philanthropy.

Session 6: Methods I

• Hammersley, M. and Atkinson, P. 2007. Field Relations. in Ethnography: Principles in Practice.
  Mullett, J. 2013. Presentational Knowing: Bridging Experience and Expression with Art, Poetry and Song. in The SAGE handbook of action research : participative inquiry and practice.

Session 7: Methods II

• Lincoln, Yvonna S. 2012. The Observation of Participation and the Emergence of Public Ethnography. in Strategies of qualitative inquiry.
• Barbre, Joy Webster. 1989. Interpreting women’s lives: feminist theory and personal narratives.
• Harding, D. 2005. Stories of Change: The Sugar Campaign for Change (SUCAM) Kenya. An inside history of success and continuing struggle.
• Gaventa, John, McGee, Rosemary. 2004. Unpacking Policy: Actors, Knowledge and Spaces. in Unpacking policy: knowledge, actors and spaces in poverty reduction in Uganda and Nigeria.

5. General Readings

6. Reference

Reading Lists Online – Institute of Development Studies (IDS)