Mixing Qualitative Methods

To date the development of mixed methods has focused on combining or using various combinations of qualita tive and quantitative methods in the same project. The struggles to find ways to easily use methods (or strategies) from both paradigms and maintain validly has distracted researchers from considering if, when, and how two meth ods from the same paradigms may also be included in the category of mixed methods. But, if we use two quali tative methods (or two quantitative methods for that matter), are we doing a mixed methods project? I think we can, and the purpose of this editorial is to place the issue of combining two qualitative “methods ” on the table. First, why have I put “methods ” in quotations? This is because actually conducting two qualitative methods in the same study means that each method is complete in itself