Methodological challenges of researching communities

Welcome to the eleventh issue of Qualitative Researcher – the first to be produced by the new editorial team who are all Cardiff-based staff working in the newly established Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD). So why the changes? For the past four years, Qualitative Researcher has been produced by Qualiti which was a phase one node of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods. The methodological and research capacity building work developed
by Qualiti is now being taken forward within the WISERD programme of work, and as Qualitative Researcher has provided a useful forum for discussion of qualitative methodology we felt that it was important to continue Qualitative Researcher as part of this legacy.