Completely updated, the new edition of Designing Qualitative Research contains lucid discussions on the critical traditions within qualitative inquiry, conceptualizations of researchers' roles and possibilities for more collaborative ways of doing qualitative research. Featuring a new chapter organization, the volume highlights the important topics of data-collection methods, data management and analysis, and resource allocation decisions - all of which are revised and feature new examples. Also included are updated vignettes which provide illustrations that take the reader through the complex processes of proposal development.