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Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, this book provides a comprehensive, student-friendly guide to the nature and use of case study research.

Whether as part of a more substantial study or as the foundation for a self-contained smaller project, case studies provide viable and valuable alternatives to conducting large-scale research. Grounded in both theory and practice, this book sets out not only the key debates and ethical issues surrounding case study research, but also focuses specifically on the work of others and how you can understand, use, and write about secondary data as the basis for your own research project. With tips, examples, and extensive discussion of real-world case studies from a variety of social science and other disciplines, Tight illustrates the kinds of research to which case studies can be applied. Topics include:

Types of case studies
Advantages and disadvantages to using case studies
The meaning and value of case study research
The use of case studies in different disciplines and research designs

Whether you want to know how to access and use the case studies of others or understand the methods behind conducting your own case study research, this book will take you through every step of the process!

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Understanding Case Study Research

Small-scale Research with Meaning

Malcolm Tight

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Malcolm Tight 2017

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About the Author

Malcolm Tightis Professor of Higher Education at Lancaster University in the UK, where he has worked since 2004. He was previously Professor of Higher Education at the University of Warwick, and has also worked at Birkbeck College and the Open University. His research interests include social research designs and theories, the history of higher education and the developing state of higher education research.

Part A What is a Case Study?

Introduction

Aims and Audience

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the nature and use of case study research. It is designed primarily for students final-year undergraduate students, masters students and beginning doctoral students who are learning about research methods and/or undertaking small-scale research projects of their own, and who might be interested in undertaking case study research. It will also be useful, therefore, to academics involved in instructing and/or supervising such students, who may not all be as familiar with case study research as they might like to be.

The focus of the book is primarily on the social sciences, as this is both the subject area with which I am most familiar, and also the area in which case study is most commonly employed as a research design. However, as case study is widely used in many disciplines, the book also explores that varied usage, so it should be useful beyond the social sciences as well.

The book has been written in what you will hopefully find to be an accessible and relatively jargon-free style. In part this has been a deliberate strategy, as most things can be explained fairly simply and there is generally no need to use obscure language. In part it is also because this is the only way I know how to write. There is, though, some specialist language involved in case study and related research, so this has been used and explained as necessary.

The book takes as its central position that case studies are small-scale research with meaning. In other words, while it is clear that case studies are, by definition, limited or bounded in their scope, they nevertheless aim to produce valuable data and analyses which are of broader interest and usefulness. It is in this way that they have the potential to make significant contributions to our understanding.

We dont, of course, all have the time, funding and access to undertake larger-scale research. However, much can be achieved through smaller-scale research projects such as case studies. The trick, then, is to make the small-scale research that we undertake both useful and meaningful. This book aims to assist you in doing that.

The Contents of the Book

In the succeeding chapters, you will find discussion of, and answers to, the following questions:

What are case studies (see )?
What kinds of case study are there (see )?
How does case study compare to other research designs (see )?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of case study (see )?
How can case study research be meaningful and valuable (see )?
How are case studies used in different disciplines (see )?
How are case studies used in combination with other research designs (see )?
How can I access and use published case study research (see )?
How do I carry out a case study (see )?
What is the future for case study research (see )?

Each chapter begins with an outline of its contents, and ends with a summary of the main points made and a list of key readings. Boxes are used in some chapters to present examples or summarise material, and plentiful quotations from the extensive literature on case study research are provided.

One key feature of the book is its extensive discussion of selective case study publications: this is a particular feature of . This has been done to better exemplify the kinds of research that case study designs have been used for, to show their potential, and to illustrate the kinds of conclusions that such research can come up with.

I hope you find the book both enjoyable and useful.

Origins and Applications of Case Study

Introduction

This chapter seeks to provide an overview of case study as a research design (i.e. a way of pursuing a particular research project; the status of case study is considered in more detail in ). Its five main sections consider:

what we mean by case study
how case study has developed over time
how it is interpreted and applied in different disciplines
the different types of case study
the relations between research case studies (the main focus of this book) and teaching case studies.

All of these issues are discussed further, and illustrated by the use of example case studies from a range of disciplines, in the remainder of the book.

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