The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volume shares experiences from research in developed and developing country contexts on how mixed methods approaches can make research more credible, usable and responsive to complexity.  

1. Introduction; Keetie Roelen and Laura Camfield PART I: POVERTY MEASUREMENT 2. Mixed methods in poverty measurement: qualitative perspectives the 'necessities of life' in the 2012 PSE-UK survey; Eldin Fahmy, Eileen Sutton and Simon Pemberton 3. Deprivation and social citizenship: the objective significance of lived experience; Daniel Edmiston 4. Bringing context to multidimensional poverty: added value and challenges of mixed methods approaches; Neil Dawson 5. Measuring the resilience of vulnerable households in Burkina Faso; Lucrezia Tincani and Nigel Poole PART II: EVALUATION RESEARCH 6. Assessing rural transformations: piloting a qualitative impact protocol in Malawi and Ethiopia; James Copestake and Fiona Remnant 7. Evaluating the impacts that impact evaluations don't evaluate; Stephen Devereux and Keetie Roelen PART III: FROM RESEARCH TO POLICY 8. An inclusive proposal for the use of mixed methods in studying poverty: an application to a Colombian municipality; María Fernanda Torres and Edna Bautista Hernández 9. Challenges and Insights from mixed method impact evaluations in protracted refugee situations; Sally Burrows and Marian Read 10. Competing interpretations: human wellbeing and the use of quantitative and qualitative methods; J. Allister McGregor, Sarah Coulthard and Laura Camfield 11. Conclusion; Laura Camfield and Keetie Roelen  

'This timely and empirically rich volume adds to the growing chorus of voices in favour of mixed method research on poverty and vulnerability. The authors add new elements to the existing literature, neatly framed in terms of 'credibility, complexity and usability', and make a compelling case for the value-added of such approaches. This book should be consulted widely by academics, development practitioners and policy makers engaged with these issues.' Paul Schaffer, Trent University, Canada

'Growing numbers of researchers believe that well-designed, mixed methods studies are an effective means for analysing and understanding poverty, vulnerability and well-being. This important new book moves beyond advocacy and provides detailed case studies and examinations of 'how' to combine and integrate methods. Essential reading for academic and policy researchers striving to fit their methodological choices to their objectives and research settings.' David Hulme, University of Manchester, UK