John W. Creswell, PhD, is codirector of the Michigan Mixed Methods Research and Scholarship Program and an adjunct professor of family medicine at the University of Michigan. He has authored numerous articles and 28 books (including new editions) on mixed methods research, qualitative research, and research design. While at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, he held the Clifton Endowed Professor Chair ; served as director of a mixed methtids research office ; founded the SAGE journal, the Journal of Mixed Methods Research ; and was a consultant to the Veterans Administration health services research center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
He was a senior Fulbright scholar to South Africa in 2008 and to Thailand in 2012. He co-led a national working group on mixed methods practices at the National Institute of Health in 2011, served as a visiting professor at Harvard's School of 'Public Health in 2013, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in 2014. In 2014 he also served as president of the Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA).
Vicki L. Plano Clark, PhD, is an associate professor in the research methodologies unit of the University of Cincinnati's School of Education. Her scholarship aims to delineate useful designs for conducting mixed methods research, examine procedural issues associated with achieving meaningful integration within these designs, and consider larger questions about the personal, interpersonal, and social contexts for the adoption and use of mixed methods.
She has coauthored several books including most recently the book Mixed Methods Research : A Guide to the Field (2016 ; Sage) with Nataliya V. Ivankova. She is a founding coeditor of the Mixed Methods Research Series for SAGE Publishing. She also currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Mixed Methods Research (JMMR) and as 2017-2019 chair for the Mixed Methods Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.
In 2011 she co-led the development of Best Practices for Mixed Methods in the Health Sciences for the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. She engages in research and evaluation projects on a wide array of topics, such as the management of cancer pain, the effectiveness of school reform initiatives, and the quality of communication between attorneys and their clients.
