PIED5765M
Module Reading List
Dr Lisa Thorley
L.Thorley@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
- Week 1- Introduction to the module
- Week 4 - Workshop: Research in Development - The Research Process and Design
- Week 6 - Workshop: Making a Case for Support – Writing Literature Reviews
- Week 8 - Workshop: Using and Assessing Sources
- Week 10 - Workshop: Understanding Others’ Worlds – Using Interviews and Focus Group Discussions
PIED5765M PIED5765 Module Reading List
Research & Project Skills- Experiential Learning, 2020/21, Semester F08 Dr Lisa Thorley L.Thorley@leeds.ac.uk Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
On this page:
- SEMESTER 1 - Experiential Learning and Research Skills
- Week 3 - Workshop: Research in Development - The Research Process and Design
- Week 5 - Workshop: Making a Case for Support – Writing Literature Reviews
- Week 7 - Workshop: Using and Assessing Sources
- Week 9 - Workshop: Understanding Others’ Worlds – Using Interviews and Focus Group Discussions
- SEMESTER 2 -Experiential Learning and Project Planning
- General Reading
- Main Journals
- Electronic Sources
- Weekly Outline and Reading Lists- Semester 2
- Workshop 1- Development Management
- Workshop 2: Making a case: stakeholder / SWOT / Participatory/ Problem-driven iterative analysis
- Workshop 3- Logical framework analysis and Theory of Change
- Workshop 4- Approaches to monitoring and evaluation
- Workshop 5 - Formulating proposals and budgets
SEMESTER 1 - Experiential Learning and Research Skills
Week 1- Introduction to the module
Ebrahim, A.. 2003. Accountability In Practice: Mechanisms for NGOs. World Development 31(5), 813–829
Kilby, P. 2006. Accountability for Empowerment: Dilemmas Facing Non-Governmental Organizations. World Development 34 (6), 951–963.
Lewis, D. and Kanji, N. 2009. Non-Governmental Organizations and Development. Routledge: New York.
Mitlin, D., S. Hickey and A. Bebbington. 2007. Reclaiming Development? NGOs and the Challenge of Alternative. World Development 35 (10), 1699–1720
Tandon, R. & L. David Brown. 2013. Civil societies at crossroads: lessons and implications, Development in Practice, 23:5-6, 784-796. To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2013.800843
Andrews, M., Pritchett, L. and Woolcock, M., 2013. Escaping capability traps through problem driven iterative adaptation (PDIA).World development., 51, pp.234-24
Bridge, S., Murtagh, B. and O'Neill, K., 2009. Understanding the social economy and the third sector. Palgrave Macmillan.
Chambers, R. (2017). Can we know better? : reflections for development. Practical Action Publishing.
Chambers, R., (1997). Responsible well-being—A personal agenda for development. World development., 25(11), pp.1743-1754.
Clayton, J., Donovan, C. and Merchant, J., 2016. Distancing and limited resourcefulness: Third sector service provision under austerity localism in the north east of England. Urban studies., 53(4), pp.723-740.
McGarvey, D. 2017. Poverty safari : understanding the anger of Britain's underclass , Luath Press
Thompson, N. & J. Pascal (2012) Developing critically reflective practice, Reflective practice., 13:2, 311-325, DOI: 10.1080/14623943.2012.657795
Thompson, S., & Thompson, N. (2008). The critically reflective practitioner. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
The following texts provide key general readings for the course:
*Laws, S., with C. Harper and R. Marcus (2003) Research for development : a practical guide London: SCF / Sage
*Mikkelsen, B. (2005) Methods for Development Work and Research New Delhi: Sage (revised edition)
*Desai, V. and R. Potter (2006) Doing development research London: Sage Publications
*Kumar, S. (2003) Methods for community participation : a complete guide for practitioners . ITDG publishing
*Sumner, A. and Tribe, M (2008) International development studies : theories and methods in research and practice . London: Sage
*Thomas, A., and G. Mohan (eds.) (2007) Research skills for policy and development : how to find out fast London: Sage Publications
Also see: Bridging Research and Policy Journal of international development Special Issue August 2005 Vol.17 (6)
Week 4 - Workshop: Research in Development - The Research Process and Design
Texts marked * are particularly useful and you should start your reading with those.
*Blaxter, L., Hughes C, Tight M. How to Research, 2nd edition, Buckingham: Open University Press.
Bryman, A. and Burgess, R.G. (eds.) (1999) Qualitative Research, London: Sage
Burnham, P. (et al) (2008,2004) Research Methods in Politics, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Casley, D. and D. Lury (1987) Data Collection in Developing Countries Oxford: Clarendon Press
Denscombe, Martyn (2010), The Good Research Guide for Small-Scale Social Research Projects,4th Edition, Maidenhead: Open University Press. Available online (Or 3rdEdition (2007)
*Denzin, N. and Y. Lincoln (2000) Handbook of qualitative research 2nd Edition, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Dixon, Beverly R., Gary D. Bouma and G. B. J. Atkinson (1987), A handbook of social science research. A Comprehensive and Practical Guide for Students, New York: Oxford University Press. (Chapter 10 on qualitative research)
Hammersley, M. (2008) Questioning qualitative inquiry : critical essays. London: Sage
Hammond, M. and Wellington, J. (2013) Research Methods : The key concepts , London: Routledge
Humble, D., (2012) ‘“This isn’t getting easier”: Valuing emotion in development research’, Emotion, Space and Society, 5 (2) (pp.78-85)
Jenkins, K., (2007) ‘Feminist methodologies: Unsettling multiple boundaries in development’ in Smith, M. (eds.), Negotiating Borders and Boundaries: Qualitative Methodology and Development Research, Oxford: Elsevier (pp.83-103)
Jones, N. and A, Sumner (2007) Does mixed methods research matter to understanding childhood wellbeing ? ESRC Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD) working paper #40. Available at https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11205-008-9311-y.pdf .
Liamputtong, P. (2013) Qualitative research methods. Melbourne: Oxford University Press
Marsh, D. and Stoker, G. Theory and Methods in Political Science, London: Palgrave, 2010 - Please note, alternative editions of this book (1995, 2002 and 2017) are also available in the library.
Matthews, B. and Ross, L. (2010) Research Methods: A practical guide for the social sciences , Harlow: Pearson.
May, T. (2011) Social Research: Issues, Methods and Process , Maidenhead: Open University Press.
*Mayoux, L. (2006) Quantitative, qualitative or participatory: which method, for what and when? Ch. 13 In Desai, V. and R. Potter (2006) Doing development research London: Sage Publications pp. 115-129EBook available
Mellor, M.,(2007) ‘Researching for change’, in Smith, M. (eds), Negotiating Boundaries and Borders: Qualitative Methodology and Development Research, Oxford: Elsevier
Schratz, M. and Walker, R. (1995) Research as Social Change: New Opportunities for Qualitative Research, London and New York: Routledge - critical approaches to qualitative methods.
Silverman, D. (2000) Doing qualitative research: a practical handbook London: Sage
Silverman, D. (2006), Interpreting Qualitative Data, 3rd Edition, London: Sage. (Chapter 2 on ‘What is Qualitative Research?’)
Smith, M., (2007) ‘Negotiating boundaries and borders: qualitative methodology and development research’ in M. Smith (eds) Negotiating Boundaries and Borders: Qualitative Methodology and Development Research, Elsevier: Oxford (pp.1–9)
White, H. (2002) 'Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis' World Development 30(12) pp. 511-522
Wolcott, H.F. (1990) Writing up qualitative research Newbury Park, CA: Sage
On ethics and power:
Brodsky, A. (2001) More than Epistemology: relationships in applied research with underserved communities. The journal of social issues 57 (2) pp. 323-335
Gasper, D. and Thanh-Dam Truong (2005) Deepening Development Ethics: from economism to human development to human security. European journal of development research.vol 17 no. 3 pp. 372-384
Smith, L.T. (1999) Decolonizing methodologies : research and indigenous peoples London: Zed Books
Warwick, D.P. (1993) The politics and ethics of field research. In Bulmer, M. and D. Warwick (eds.) Social Research in Developing Countries: Surveys and Censuses in the Third World London: University College Press, pp. 315-330
Wolf, D. (1996) (ed.) Feminist dilemmas in fieldwork Work Boulder: Westview Press
Wilson, K. (1992) 'Thinking about the ethics of fieldwork. In Devereux, S. and Hoddinott, J. (eds.) Fieldwork in developing countries Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, pp. 179-199.
Week 6 - Workshop: Making a Case for Support – Writing Literature Reviews
* Barrientos, S. (2007) Interrogating information through a literature study. Chapter 5 in Thomas, A., and G. Mohan (eds.) (2007) Research skills for policy and development : how to find out fast London: Sage Publications pp. 113-134. EBook available
Becker, H.S. (1986). Writing for social scientists : how to start and finish your thesis, book, or articleChicago: The University of Chicago Press. Chapter 8 EBook available discusses good uses of literature and examines how literature both helps us to develop and limits our thinking.
Locke, L.F., Waneen, W.Y. & Silverman, S.J. (2007). Proposals that work: A guide for planning dissertations and grant proposals (5th ed.). Newbury Park: Sage Publications. Discusses literature reviews in the context of proposals, but the suggestions given apply to literature reviews written as part of articles or dissertations.
*Meth, Paula and G. Williams (2006) 'Literature Reviews and Bibliographic Searches. In V. Desai and D. Potter (eds.) Doing development research London: Sage Publications
Spray, S. and Roselle, L. (2012) Research and writing in international relations. Longman. Chapter 2
Week 8 - Workshop: Using and Assessing Sources
Document analysis
* Bowen, G.A., (2009) Document analysis as a qualitative research method. Qualitative Research, 9(2), pp.27-40.
Fitzgerald, T., 2012. Documents and documentary analysis. Research methods in educational leadership and management, pp.296-308.
Halperin, S. and Heath, O. (2012) Political research: methods and practical skills , Oxford: Oxford University Press, Chapter 14 ‘Textual Analysis’
Harding, J., (2019), Qualitative Data Analysis: From start to finish, Los Angeles: Sage Publications Ltd
Jennings, Michael, (2006) 'Using Archives'. In V. Desai and D. Potter (eds.) Doing development research London: Sage Publications EBook available
Jupp, V. and Norris, C. (1993) Traditions in documentary analysis' in Hammersley, M. ed., Social research : philosophy, politics and practice. Sage, pp.37-51
Matthews, B. and Ross, L. (2010) Research methods : a practical guide for the social sciences , Harlow: Pearson - chapter 8
McCulloch, G., 2004. Documentary research in education, history, and the social sciences. Routledge.
Rapley, T., 2008. Doing conversation, discourse and document analysis. Sage. - chaper 9
Discourse Analysis
Dumire, P.L. (2012) Political Discourse Analysis: Exploring the Language of Politics and the Politics of Language, Language and linguistics compass 6, 11, 735-751
* Howarth, D. ‘Discourse Theory and Political Analysis’ in Scarborough and Tanenbaum, eds (1998), Research strategies in the social sciences : a guide to new approaches, Ch. 12. Pp 268-294
Fairclough, N. 1992. Discourse and social change. Cambridge: Polity Press
Laclau, E. ‘Discourse’ in Goodin, Robert A., & Philip, Pettit (eds) A companion to contemporary political philosophy , (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995): 431-437.
Content Analysis
Evans, L., & Davies, K. (2000). No sissy boys here: A content analysis of the representation of masculinity in elementary school reading textbooks. Sex roles, 42(3-4), 255-270.
* Neuendorf, K.A. (2017). ‘Chapter 1: Defining Content Analysis” in Neuendorf, K.A. The content analysis guidebook 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Lacy, S., Watson, B. R., Riffe, D., & Lovejoy, J. (2015). Issues and best practices in content analysis. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 92(4), 791–811.
Macnamara, J. (2005). Media content analysis: Its uses, benefits and best practice methodology. Asia Pacific Public Relations Journal, 6(1), 1–34.
Schreier, M. (2012). Qualitative content analysis in practice. Sage Publications.
Visual Methods
Banks, M. (2015). Visual Methods in Social Research.London ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE
Buckingham, D. (2009). 'Creative 'visual methods in media research: possibilities, problems and proposals. Media, culture & society. , 31(4), 633-652.
* Harman, S. (2020).Seeing politics : film, visual method, and international relations. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Markham, A. (2013). Remix Cultures, Remix Methods: Reframing Qualitative Inquiry for Social Media Contexts. In N. Denzin & M. Giardina (Eds.), Global Dimensions of Qualitative Inquiry (pp. 53–83). Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, Inc. Available online at: https://annettemarkham.com/writing/markhamremixmethodchapterreprint.pdf
* Rose, G, Visual methodologies: An introduction to researching with visual materials. London: Sage.
Swain, H. (2013). Research funding emphasis on 'impact' spawns a new industry. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/nov/12/research-excellence-framework-impact-consultants
Rowe, D. (2017). The university as a 'giant newsroom': the uses of academic knowledge revisited. Culture Unbound, 9(3), 228-239. https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws:46231/datastream/PDF/view
van den Scott, L. J. K. (2018). Visual Methods in Ethnography. Journal of contemporary ethnography. . 47(6) (Special issue on Visual Ethnography), 719 – 728.
Websites:
Electronic sources through the world wide web are also an important source of development sources. Listed below are some useful websites, but there are hundreds more including the organisation for your volunteer placement. As you progress you should bookmark all the websites you find useful. Google is the best search engine for development websites.
www.ids.ac.uk This is the website for the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex - this is the biggest UK based Development Studies site for information and search tools.
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-development - for up to date information from the UK Department for International Development
www.worldbank.org The is the World Bank"s main site. They have hundreds of papers and reports online.
www.wdm.org This is the website of the World Development Movement. They publish a lot of highly professional reports - some quite critical of mainstream policy.
www.oxfam.org This is the website of OXFAM, one of the largest UK based NGOs - lots of reports.
Most of the development agencies - UN and NGOs - have a website with their name or initials - and.org after them. Some examples are given below. You can find many more.
www.savethechildren.org.uk: Save the Children Fund
www.christianaid.org.uk: Christian Aid
www.undp.org: United Nations Development Programme
www.unrisd.org: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
www.oneworld.net: The Oneworld network provides access to a huge range of organisations and materials on different development themes.
Also check alternative newswebsite such as Counterpunch, Truthdig, Truthout, Opendemocracy, Democracynow etc.
Week 10 - Workshop: Understanding Others’ Worlds – Using Interviews and Focus Group Discussions
Borland, K. (1991) “That’s not what I said”: Interpretive conflict in oral narrative research in Gluck, S.B. and Patai, D. (eds) Women's words : the feminist practice of oral history Routledge: London, pp. 63-75
David, M., & Sutton, C. D. (2010). Social research : an introduction (2nd ed.). London: SAGE, chapter 6
Ergun, A., and Erdemir, E., (2010) ‘Negotiating Insider and Outsider Identities in the Field: “Insider” in a Foreign Land; “Outsider” in One’s Own Land’, Field Methods, 22(1) (pp.16–38)
Farquhar, C. (Das, Rita) (1999) ‘Are focus groups suitable for ‘sensitive’ topics?’, in Barbour, R.S. and Kitzinger, J. (eds.) Developing focus group research : politics, theory and practice Sage: London, pp. 47-63
Francis, E. (1992) Qualitative research: collecting life histories. In Devereux, S. and J. Hoddinott (eds.) Fieldwork in developing countries Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, pp. 87-101
Fylan, F. (2005) ‘Semi-Structured Interviewing.’ In: Miles, J. and Gilbert, P. (eds.) A handbook of research methods for clinical and health psychology . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
King, N. and Horrocks, C. (2010) Interviews in qualitative research Sage: London
Kitzinger. J. (1994) The methodology of focus groups: the importance of interaction between research participants Sociology of health and illness 16 (1) pp. 104–121
Kvale, S. (1996) Interviews : an introduction to qualitative research interviewing, London: Sage.
Liamputtong, P. (2011) Focus group methodology: Principle and practice, Sage Publications Matthews, B. and Ross, L. (2010) Research methods : a practical guide for the social sciences Harlow: Pearson, chapter C4
McGinn, N. and Borden, A. (1995) Framing questions, constructing answers : linking research with education policy for developing countries Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge, Mass
Mitchell, L. (1999) ‘Combining focus groups and interviews: telling how it is; telling how it feels’, in Barbour, R.S. and Kitzinger, J. (eds.) Developing focus group research : politics, theory and practiceSage: London, pp. 36-46
Morgan, D. (1997) Focus groups as qualitative research London: Sage Publications
Morgan, D. and R. Kreuger (1993) When to use Focus Groups and Why. In D. Morgan (ed.) Successful focus groups : advancing the state of the art London: Sage Publications
Pini, B. (2002) ‘Focus groups, feminist research and farm women: Opportunities for empowerment in rural social research’, Journal of rural studies. 18, 339-351
Pratt, B. and P. Loizos (1992) Choosing research methods : data collection for development workers Oxford: Development Guidelines No 7 Oxfam
*Pole, C. and R. Lampard (2002) Practical social investigation : qualitative and quantitative methods in social research . esp. ch. 6 'Interviewing: listening and talking' pp. 89-125.
Richards, D. (1999) Elite Interviewing: Approaches and Pitfalls. Politics. 16(3): 199-204
Rubin, H. and Gubrium (1995)The active interview , London: Sage.
Seale, C. (2012) Researching society and culture , London, SAGE, chapter 14
Slater, R. (2000) Using life histories to explore change: women’s urban struggles in Cape Town, South Africa. Gender and development 8 (2) pp. 38-46
Slim, A. and Thompson, P. (1993) Listening for a change : oral testimony and development London: Panos
Stroh, M. Qualitative Interviewing, in Burton, D. (ed) Research training for social scientists : a handbook for postgraduate researchers (London: Sage, 2000)
Stark, S., & Torrance, H. (2005). Case Study, in Somekh, B., and Lewin, C., (eds), Research Methods in Social Science, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd. (pp.33-40)
Van Manen, M., (1997) Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy, New York: Routledge
Wilkinson, S. (1999) How useful are focus groups in feminist research?’, in Barbour, R.S. and Kitzinger, J. (eds.) Developing focus group research : politics, theory and practice, Sage: London, pp. 64-78
Useful Readings on Participatory research:
Agarwal, Bina (2001) Participatory Exclusions, Community Forestry, and Gender: An Analysis for South Asia and a Conceptual Framework. World Development 29 (10) pp. 1623-1648
Bhattacharjee, Parinita (2000), Practical Notes: Stepping Stones—a participatory tool to integrate gender into HIV/AIDS work. Development in practice (10) 5
Botchway, Karl (2001), Paradox of Empowerment: Reflections on a Case Study from Northern Ghana. World Development 29 (1) pp. 135-153
Burkey, S. (1993) People first : a guide to self-reliant participatory rural development London: Zed Books
*Chambers, R. (2007) From PRA to PLA and Pluralism. IDS Working Paper 286, Brighton: IDS ( https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/660)
Chambers, R. (1997) Whose reality counts? : putting the first last Intermediate Technology Publications
Chambers, R. (1994) The Origins and Practice of Participatory Rural Appraisal World development. 22(7) pp.953-969
Chambers, R. (1994) Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA): Analysis of Experience World development. 22 (9) pp. 1253-1268
Chambers, R. et al (eds.) (1989) Farmer first : farmer innovation and agricultural research Research Intermediate Technology Publications
Gladwin, C., J. Peterson & A. C. Mwale (2002) The Quality of Science in Participatory Research: A Case Study from Eastern Zambia. World Development Vol. 30 (4) pp.523–543
Habgood, L. (1998) Health and livelihoods in rural Angola : a participatory research project Oxford: Oxfam
Kumar, K. (ed.) (1993) Rapid appraisal methods Washington D.C.: World Bank
*Kumar, S. (2003) Methods for community participation : a complete guide for practitioners . ITDG publishing
*Lilja, Nina and Mauricio Bellon (2008) Some common questions about participatory research: a review of the literature. Development in practice 18 (4&5)
Mayoux, L. (1995) Beyond Naivety: Women, Gender Inequality and Participatory Development. Development and change (26) pp. 235-258
Mayoux, L. and Chambers, R. (2005) Reversing the paradigm: quantification, participatory methods and pro-poor impact assessment. Journal of international development. 17(2) pp. 271 – 298
*Mayoux. L. and H. Johnson (2007) Investigation as empowerment: using participatory methods. Ch. 8 in Thomas and Mohan Research skills for policy and development : how to find out fast (eds.) (op cit) pp. 180-207. Available online
Morse, R., A. Rahman and K. Johnson (1995) Grassroot horizons : connecting participatory development initiatives east and west Intermediate Technology Publications.
Mosse, D. (1994) Authority, Gender and Knowledge: theoretical reflections on the practice of participatory rural appraisal Development and change. 25: 497-526
Nelson, N. and S. Wright (eds.) (1995) Power and participatory development : theory and practice Intermediate Technology Publications
Okali, C. et al. (1994) Farmer participatory research : rhetoric and reality Intermediate Technology Publications
PLA Notes 42 (2001) Children's participation : evaluating effectiveness London: IIED
Rahman, Md A. (1992) People's self development : perspectives of participatory action research : a journey through experience London: Zed Books
Robb, C. (1999) Can the poor influence policy? participatory poverty assessments in the developing world Washington, D.C.: World Bank
*Ruggeri Laderchi, C. 2001. Participatory Methods in the Analysis of Poverty: A Critical Review . Working Paper #62.QEHWP62. Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. (A shorter version of this is available at https://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/sites/www.odid.ox.ac.uk/files/www3_docs/qehwps62.pdf)
*Slocum, R. et al. (1995) Power, process and participation : tools for change London: Intermediate Technology Publications
Smith, K. & C. Barrett (2000) Participatory Risk Mapping for Targeting Research and Assistance: With an Example from East African Pastoralists. World Development 28 (11) pp. 1945-1959
Smith, S., D. Williams, with N. Johnson (eds.) (1997) Nurtured by knowledge : learning to do participatory action-research New York: Apex Press Ottawa: International Development Research Centre
UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO): ‘Database: Field tools- Participation’ (provides presentations of various participatory methods, approaches and tools) www.fao.org/Participation/ft_find.jsp
Wilkinson, S. (1998) Focus Groups in Feminist Research: Power, interaction and the construction of meaning. Women's studies international forum. 21 (1) pp. 111-125
This list was last updated on 30/09/2021