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Citations
9833
World Ranking
4934
National Ranking
834

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Nigel Fielding is affiliated with the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within the social sciences, focusing extensively on topics related to policing, crime, and security.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences

Subfields of study covered by their work involve:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Gender Studies

The primary topics Nigel Fielding investigates are:

  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Gender, Security, and Conflict
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies

Their recent published papers include:

  • Police communications and social media (2021, European Journal of Criminology)
  • Understanding minority recruitment to the police: beyond systematic review (2024, Policing & Society)

These works reflect a focus on contemporary issues surrounding communication within policing and the challenges related to diversity in police forces.

Nigel Fielding has published articles primarily in the following venues:

  • European Journal of Criminology
  • Policing & Society

Their academic recognition includes being named a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis: Theory, Methods and Practice

    Udo Kelle;Gerald Prein;Katherine Bird;Raymond M. Lee

  • Using Computers in Qualitative Research

    Nigel G. Fielding;Raymond M. Lee

  • The SAGE handbook of online research methods

    Nigel G. Fielding;Raymond M. Lee;Grant Blank

  • Computer analysis and qualitative research

    Nigel G. Fielding;Raymond M. Lee

  • Triangulation and Mixed Methods Designs: Data Integration With New Research Technologies

    Nigel G. Fielding

  • Introduction: On the Compatibility between Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods

    Nigel Fielding;Margrit Schreier

  • Computer Programs for Qualitative Data Analysis

    Nigel Fielding;Eben A. Weitzman;Matthew B. Miles

  • Joining Forces: Police Training, Socialization, and Occupational Competence

    Nigel Fielding

  • Getting the most from archived qualitative data: epistemological, practical and professional obstacles

    Nigel Fielding

  • ‘The Appliance of Science?’The Theory and Practice of Crime Intelligence Analysis

    Martin Innes;Nigel Fielding;Nina Cope

  • Linking data: the articulation of qualitative and quantitative methods in social research

    NG Fielding;JL Fielding

  • Crime and economic activity: a panel data approach

    R Witt;A Clarke;N Fielding

  • Reassurance Policing, Community Policing and Measuring Police Performance

    Nigel Fielding;Martin Innes

  • From Community to Communicative Policing: ‘Signal Crimes’ and the Problem of Public Reassurance:

    NG Fielding;M Innes

  • CAQDAS-GIS Convergence Toward a New Integrated Mixed Method Research Practice?

    Nigel Fielding;César A. Cisneros-Puebla

  • Resistance and adaptation to criminal identity: using secondary analysis to evaluate classic studies of crime and deviance

    Nigel G. Fielding;Jane L. Fielding

  • Police socialisation and police competence

    Nigel Fielding

  • Black and blue: an analysis of the influence of race on being stopped by the police

    NG Fielding;C Norris;C Kemp;JL Fielding

  • Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography

    Nigel Fielding;John Van Maanen

  • A Panel Data Approach

    Robert Witt;Alan Clarke;Nigel Fielding

  • Power, Crime and Mystification

    Nigel Fielding;Steven Box

  • Mediating the Message: Affinity and Hostility in Research on Sensitive Topics

    Nigel G. Fielding

  • Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research.@@@Speaking of Ethnography.@@@The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork.@@@Linking Data.

    Trudy Mills;Jerome Kirk;Marc L. Miller;Michael H. Agar

Frequent Co-Authors

Donna M. Mertens
Donna M. Mertens University of Washington
Robert Dingwall
Robert Dingwall Nottingham Trent University
Charles C. Ragin
Charles C. Ragin University of California, Irvine
Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Sharlene Hesse-Biber Boston College

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