Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
List of contributors viii
Preface x
PART I INTRODUCTION 1
1 The Raison d’être of Doing Development Research 3
PART II STRATEGIC ISSUES IN PLANNING SOUND RESEARCH 11
2 Doing Fieldwork in Developing Countries: Planning and Logistics 13
Tony Binns
3 Ethical Practices in Doing Development Research 25
Lynne Brydon
4 Working in Different Cultures: Issues of Race, Ethnicity and Identity 34
Caesar R.A. Apentiik and Jane L. Parpart
5 Women, Men and Fieldwork: Gender Relations and Power Structures 44
Janet Henshall Momsen
6 Working with Children in Development 52
Lorraine van Blerk
7 Collecting Sensitive and Contentious Information 62
Margaret E. Harrison
8 Dealing with Conflicts and Emergency Situations 70
Morten Bøås, Kathleen M. Jennings and Timothy M. Shaw
9 Working with Partners: Educational Institutions 79
Bill Gould
10 Working with Partners: Government Ministries 87
Mansoor Ali and Andrew Cotton
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11 Working with Partners: NGOs and CBOs 94
Claire Mercer
12 Doing Development Research ‘at Home’ 104
Tim Unwin
PART III INFORMATION AND DATA COLLECTION METHODS 113
(i) METHODS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND ASSOCIATED FORMS OF ANALYSIS
13 Quantitative, Qualitative or Participatory? Which Method,
for What and When? 115
Linda Mayoux
14 Field Surveys and Inventories 130
David Barker
15 Interviewing 144
Katie Willis
16 Focus Groups 153
Sally Lloyd-Evans
17 Your Questions Answered? Conducting Questionnaire Surveys 163
David Simon
18 Lost in Translation? The Use of Interpreters in Fieldwork 172
Janet Bujra
19 Ethnography and Participant Observation 180
Jan Kees van Donge
20 Participatory Methods and Approaches: Tackling the Two Tyrannies 189
Harriot Beazley and Judith Ennew
21 Diaries and Case Studies 200
JoAnn McGregor
(ii) USING EXISTING KNOWLEDGE AND RECORDS 207
22 Literature Reviews and Bibliographic Searches 209
Paula Meth and Glyn Williams
23 Using Indigenous Local Knowledge and Literature 222
Cathy McIIwaine
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24 Using Images, Films and Photography 231
Cheryl McEwan
25 Using Archives 241
Michael Jennings
26 Remote Sensing, GIS and Ground Truthing 251
Dennis Conway and Shanon Donnelly
27 The Importance of Census and Other Secondary
Data in Development Studies 262
Allan M. Findlay
28 Using the World Wide Web for Development Research 273
Emma Mawdsley
29 Data from International Agencies 282
Jonathan Rigg
(iii) DISSEMINATING FINDINGS/RESEARCH 295
30 Writing an Effective Research Report or Dissertation 297
Stephen Morse
31 How is Research Communicated Professionally? 310
Sally Gainsbury and Cheryl Brown
Index 320