Research Methods

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Sampson, H., Ellis, N. (2022) Scoping exercise relating to the future evaluation of evidence underpinning decision-making in the shipping industry, Cardiff: SIRC.

Turgo, N., Sampson, H. (2021) 'What is immediate and obvious feels real': National identify and emotional vulnerabilities in the field, Methodological Innovations, DOI:10.1177/20597991211035526.

Sampson, H.; Johannessen, I. (2019) 'Turning on the Tap: The benefits of using 'real life' vignettes in qualitative research interviews', Qualitative Research, 1-17, DOI: 10.1177/1468794118816618.

Sampson, H. and Turgo, N. (2018) 'Finding the way in to a global industry! The usefulness of elite events to social science researchers', Journal of Organizational Ethnography, DOI 10.1108/JOE-04-2017-0022.

Sampson, H. (2017) 'Fluid fields' and the dynamics of risk in social research', Qualitative Research. DOI: 10.1177/1468794117746085.

Bloor, M., Sampson, H., Baker, S. and Dahlgren, K. (2015) 'Useful but no Oracle: reflections on the use of a Delphi Group in a mulit-methods policy research study', Qualitative Research, 15(1): 57-70, DOI: 10.1177/1468794113504103.

Sampson, H. and Thomas, M. (2013) ‘Lone Researchers at Sea: Gender, Risk and Responsibility’, Smart, B., Peggs, K. and Burridge, J. (eds.) Observation Methods: Benchmarks in Social Research Methods, Sage, ISBN: 978-1-4462-0811-3, pp 165-189.

Turgo, N. (2012) ‘I know him so well’: Contracting/tual ‘insiderness’ and Maintaining Access and Rapport in a Philippine Fishing Community, Sociological Research Online, 17(3): 18-31.

Turgo, N. (2012) 'A ‘balikbayan’ in the field: scaling and (re) producing insider’s identity in a Philippine fishing community', Qualitative Research, 12(6): 666-685. DOI: 10.1177/1468794111433006.

Galam, R. (2011) 'Navigating Lives: The Spatiotemporality of the Gender Identity, Agency and Subjectivity of Filipino Seamen's Wives', PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.

Bloor, M., Fincham, B. and Sampson, H. (2010) ‘Unprepared for the worst: risks of harm for qualitative researchers’, Methodological Innovations Online, 5(1): 45-55. DOI: 10.4256/mio.2010.0009.

Jenkins, N., Bloor, M., Fischer, J., Berney, L. and Neale, J. (2010) 'Putting it in context: the use of vignettes in qualitative interviewing', Qualitative Research, 10(2): 175-198. DOI: 10.1177/1468794109356737.

Ellis, N., Bloor, M. and Sampson, H. (2010) 'Patterns of Seafarer Injuries', Maritime Policy & Management, 37(2): 121-128. DOI: 10.1080/03088830903533742.

Bloor, M. (2009) 'Commentary: the researcher's obligation to bring about good', Qualitative Social Work 9(1): 17-20. DOI: 10.1177/1473325009355616.

Sampson, H., Bloor, M. and Fincham, B. (2008) 'A Price Worth Paying? Considering the 'Cost' of Reflexive Research Methods and the Influence of Feminist Ways of 'Doing', Sociology, 42(5): 919-933. DOI: 10.1177/0038038508094570.

Ellis, N. (2008) 'Why should seafarers care about what researchers do?', The Sea, London: Mission to Seafarers, Issue 193, May/Jun 2008, pp 4-5.

Belousov, K., Horlick-Jones, T., Bloor, M., Gilinskiy, Y., Golbert, V., Kostikovsky, Y., Levi, M. and Pentsov, D. (2007) 'Any port in a storm: fieldwork difficulties in dangerous and crisis-ridden settings', Qualitative Research, 7(2): 155-175. DOI: 10.1177/1468794107076019.

Bloor, M., Fincham, B. and Sampson, H. (2007) QUALITI (NCRM) Commissioned Inquiry Into the Risk to Well-being of Researchers in Qualitative Research, Cardiff: QUALITI.

Wu, B. and Winchester N. (2005) ‘Crew Study of Seafarers: A Methodological Approach to the Global Labour Market for Seafarers’. Marine Policy, 29(4): 323-330. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2004.05.006.

Sampson, H. (2004) ‘Navigating the waves: the usefulness of a pilot in qualitative research’. Qualitative Research, 4(3): 383-402. DOI: 10.1177/1468794104047236.

Sampson, H. and Thomas, M. (2003) ‘Lone Researchers at Sea: gender, risk and responsibility’, Qualitative Research, 3(2): 165-189. DOI: 10.1177/14687941030032002.

Parry-Langdon, N., Bloor, M., Audrey, S. and Holliday, J. (2003) ‘Process evaluation of health promotion interventions’, Policy and Politics, 31(2): 207-216, ISSN 0305 5736.

Wu, B. (2003) ‘Accessing the global seafaring market’, WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs, 2(1):17-32. DOI: 10.1007/BF03195031.