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Chapter 4 - Mixing Methods in a Multi-Sited, Collaborative Project:

Researching Migration, Working with Variation

from Part I - Planning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2024

By
Emine Fişek
Edited by
Tracy C. Davis  and
Paul Rae
Tracy C. Davis
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Illinois
Paul Rae
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
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Summary

This chapter addresses the methodological challenges presented by multi-sited, collaborative research design in TaPS, which provides a fruitful space for considering the benefits of mixed methods approaches. Multi-sited, multi-collaborator research projects frequently feature methodological variation. Whereas mixing methods addresses discrepancies between the different sites and cases that such a project brings together, collaborative research ensures that participants’ rationales for selecting and combining methods remain explicit. Emine Fişek illustrates these processes with reference to a hypothetical research project on theatre and performance practices responding to the European migrant crisis of 2015–16.

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European migrant crisistheatre and performancemulti-sited researchcollaborationmixed methods
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The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies , pp. 87 - 106
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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