Subject & Study Guides: Research Methods: Case Study Research

Case study research methodologies

There are many videos on research methods uploaded onto youtube. Here is another good presentation by Graham Gibbs who teaches at the University of Huddersfield in the UK. I really like Gibbs' many online tutorials available through the Online Qualitative Data Analysis.

Crowe, S., Cresswell, K., Robertson, A., Huby, G., Avery, A., & Sheikh, A. (2011). The case study approach. BMC medical research methodology, 11(1), pp100-

Flyvbjerg, B. (2006). Five misunderstandings about case-study research. Qualitative inquiry, 12(2), pp. 219-245.

Thacher, D. (2006). The normative case study. American journal of sociology, 111(6), pp.1631-1676.

Tight, M. (2010). The curious case of case study: a viewpoint. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 13(4) pp.329-339.

Doing Case Study Research by Hancock; Bob Algozzine
Call Number: 70.72 HAN
ISBN: 0807758132
Publication Date: 2016-12-30
Reflecting recent knowledge and developments in the field, this very practical, easy-to-use guide emphasizes learning how to do case study research--from the first step of deciding whether a case study is the way to go to the last step of verifying and confirming findings before disseminating them. The authors show students how to: determine an appropriate research design; conduct informative interviews; record observations; document analyses; delineate ways to confirm case study findings; describe methods for deriving meaning from data; and communicate their findings. Featuring many new examples, the Third Edition offers step-by-step guidance to help beginning researchers through the stages of planning and implementing a thesis, dissertation, or independent project. This succinct "how-to" guide is an excellent place for anyone to begin doing case study research.
Case study research : design and methods / Robert K. Yin by Robert Yin
Call Number: 300.722 YIN
ISBN: 9781452242569
Publication Date: 2014
Case study research : theory, methods, practice / Arch G. Woodside. by Woodside, Arch G.
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2010

The case study research design have evolved over the past few years as a useful tool for investigating trends and specific situations in many scientific disciplines.

The case study has been especially used in social science, psychology, anthropology and ecology.

This method of study is especially useful for trying to test theoretical models by using them in real world situations. For example, if an anthropologist were to live amongst a remote tribe, whilst their observations might produce no quantitative data, they are still useful to science. Click here for more.