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The Documents Research Network aims to facilitate the sharing of resources which will help researchers work with documents as data.
These pages will be developed over time with new texts and categories added.

Please do contact us with your own work and texts that you have found helpful to add to these pages

Core methods texts

Grant, A, 2018. Doing EXCELLENT social research with documents: Practical examples and guidance for qualitative researchers. Abingdon: Routledge.  [Chapters available for peer review, please contact GrantA2@cardiff.ac.uk]
​Prior, L., 2011. Using Documents and Records in Social Research, London: Sage.
Prior, L., 2008. Repositioning Documents in Social Research. Sociology, 42(5), pp.821–836. 
Prior, L., 2003. Using documents in social research, London: Sage.
Scott, J., 1990. A Matter of Record, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Scott, J., 2006. Documentary Research. London: Sage [NB: four volumes]

Simple chapters for those new to documentary analysis

Coffey, A., 2009. Analysing Documents. In U. Flick, ed. The SAGE handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis. London: Sage.
Mason, J., 2002. Qualitative Researching, London: Sage.
Merriam, S.B., 2009. Qualitative Research: A Guide to Design and Implementation, Sanfransisco, CA: Wiley.
Rapley, T., 2008. Doing Conversation, Discourse and Document Analysis (Qualitative Research Kit), London: Sage.

Specialist methods texts

Studies using documents as data: Content analysis type approaches

Studies using documents as data: Discourse analysis type approaches

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