Book Review of "Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide" by Melanie Birks and Jane Mills. London, UK, Sage, 2023. ISBN 9781529759280

Qualitative research textbooks and methodological papers are important pieces of work as they allow novice and experienced qualitative researchers access to the evolving, evergrowing discipline of qualitative research. I enjoy reading qualitative methodological texts as they enable me to better understand the theoretical intricacies and processes of various methodologies in the qualitative research discipline. Hence, I was extremely excited and grateful to have been given this opportunity to review a recently published book ‘Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide’, written by Professors Melanie Birks and Jane Mills. Since grounded theory was first developed in the 1960s by Barney Glaser and Anselm Straus, it remains a popular methodology utilised by researchers to date. Qualitative researchers use this methodology to systematically develop an explanatory theory of social and psychological processes grounded within the data. While grounded theory was first developed in sociology, the methodology has today been used and popularised by researchers in numerous other disciplines such as nursing, public health, psychology, occupational therapy, education and even business & tourism (Almotiri, 2017; Dudley et al., 2022; Grafton & Gordon, 2019).

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