a colleague of mine sent me some good references for qualitative research, i need to make some time space to look at them. I record them here:-Holliday, Adrian, Doing and writing qualitative research

-Gough & Madill (2007): find paper
-Berg, B. L. (2006). Qualitative research methods for the social sciences. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
-Cresswell, J. W. (1998). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five traditions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
-Denzin, N.K., & Lincoln Y.S. (2001). (Eds.). Handbook of qualitative research (2nd Ed.). London: Sage.
-Robson, C. (2002). Real world research: A Resource for Social Scientists and Practitioner-researchers. 2nd ed., Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
 -Smith, J. (2003). (Ed.). Qualitative Psychology: A Practical Guide to Research Methods. London: Sage.
-Willig, C. (2001). Introducing qualitative research in psychology: Adventures in theory and method.Buckingham: Open University Press.
-Series of SAGE Handbooks in Qualitative Research Methods

also:

the Qual Page website