Mixed Methods Research in Poverty and Vulnerability

The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volume shares experiences from research in developed and developing country contexts on how mixed methods approaches can make research more credible, usable and responsive to complexity.

Auteur
Edna Bautista Hernández, National Planning Department, Colombia Sally Burrows, United Nations World Food Programme James Copestake, University of Bath, UK Sarah Coulthard, University of Northumbria, UK Neil Dawson, University of East Anglia Stephen Devereux , Institute of Development Studies , UK Daniel Edmiston, University of Oxford, UK Eldin Fahmy, University of Bristol, UK Allister McGregor, Institute of Development Studies, UK Simon Pemberton, University of Birmingham, UK Nigel Poole, University of London, UK Marian Read, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Fiona Remnant, University of Bath, UK Eileen Sutton, University of Bristol, UK Lucrezia Tincani, Oxford Policy Management, UK María Fernanda Torres, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico

Contenu

1. Introduction; Keetie Roelen and Laura Camfield PART I: POVERTY MEASUREMENT 2. Mixed methods in poverty measurement: qualitative perspectives the 'necessities of life' in the 2012 PSE-UK survey; Eldin Fahmy, Eileen Sutton and Simon Pemberton 3. Deprivation and social citizenship: the objective significance of lived experience; Daniel Edmiston 4. Bringing context to multidimensional poverty: added value and challenges of mixed methods approaches; Neil Dawson 5. Measuring the resilience of vulnerable households in Burkina Faso; Lucrezia Tincani and Nigel Poole PART II: EVALUATION RESEARCH 6. Assessing rural transformations: piloting a qualitative impact protocol in Malawi and Ethiopia; James Copestake and Fiona Remnant 7. Evaluating the impacts that impact evaluations don't evaluate; Stephen Devereux and Keetie Roelen PART III: FROM RESEARCH TO POLICY 8. An inclusive proposal for the use of mixed methods in studying poverty: an application to a Colombian municipality; María Fernanda Torres and Edna Bautista Hernández 9. Challenges and Insights from mixed method impact evaluations in protracted refugee situations; Sally Burrows and Marian Read 10. Competing interpretations: human wellbeing and the use of quantitative and qualitative methods; J. Allister McGregor, Sarah Coulthard and Laura Camfield 11. Conclusion; Laura Camfield and Keetie Roelen