My best takes and advice on qualitative methods can be found in my book, Rocking Qualitative Social Science (Stanford University Press, 2021), which I describe here. For additional methods book recommendations, see my book recommendations page.
My recent remarks on innovative qualitative methods can be found here.
Setting Up Your Project Worksheet (Compliments Qualitative Social Science: A Crash Course)
Click here for a worksheet that helps you make sure you’ve tackled the basic items of your project set up (focusing on research design).
Qualitative Social Science: A Crash Course
Click here for slides from my 3.5 hour workshop offering a “starter kit” overview of qualitative methods (a “crash course”) for an interdisciplinary social science audience (based on my book, Rocking Qualitative Social Science). (Last updated June 4, 2025.) I’m more than happy to give this talk live; email me if you are interested!
Click here for slides from my multi-day workshop offering an introductory overview of qualitative methods (a “crash course”) for an interdisciplinary social science audience (based on my book, Rocking Qualitative Social Science). (Last updated October 26, 2022.) I’m more than happy to give this talk live; email me if you are interested!
Click here for an outline of the multi-day workshop (for workshop participants, in case you want to use the outline to structure your notes). (Last updated October 29, 2022.)
Click here for my short overview covering what I see as the major highlights from my book. (Last updated October 21, 2021.) I’m more than happy to give this talk live; email me if you are interested!
Click here for my short overview covering what I see as the major highlights from my book but updated for a law school audience. (Last updated June 4, 2023.)
Historical and Archival Research: An Overview
Click here for slides from my 1.5 hr overview of how to do archival and historical research. (Last updated April 27, 2021.) I’m more than happy to give this talk live; email me if you are interested!
Click here for a twitter thread with some of the highlights from this lecture.
Ashley T. Rubin 