Qualitative Methods Workshop Day 2

Qualitative Research Methods 1I March 31st 2011, KU Leuven Jason Rutter

OverviewManaging your research 9.00-10.15Analysis your data 10.30-12.00Writing you qualitative chapters 1.00-3.00Planning for questions 3.15-17.00 Emphasis in individual development and feedback

Managing your researchAnalysis your dataWriting you qualitative chaptersPlanning for questions

Undertaking ResearchGetting In : Getting On : Getting Out

What can go wrong?

No access Participants don’t show Recording equipment does work Lost data Lose key informant Promoter leaves External events change etc...These must be planned for and the risk managed.

Exercise

In groups: List potential challenges that might arise. How can these be avoided? What can be done if they happen? Problem Manage Risk Solution

Analysing your research

Establish Design Questions Collection DevelopCollect Data Code Data Categories Write

Tackling your dataCapturing:Field notes, transcripts, pictures, personal Growing Familiarityresponses, etc.Segmenting:Arrange in meaningful chunksCoding:Identify themes, concepts, patterns, relationshipsCategorising:Grouping the themes you have identiﬁed

Exercise

What are the units of your data?List the ‘what?’, ‘who?’, ‘how’ and, ﬁnally, ‘why?’ How can you tell these using your story?

Writing your research

Identify the key points in your story Use those to organise your data chapters• How does this chapter ﬁt into your story?• What is the theoretical background?• What does you data suggest?• How can this be illustrated?• What is the outcome of this?

The Hypothesis-Test-Discuss modelis poorly suited to qualitative research

Exercise

Establish Review Design Questions Literature Collection DevelopCollect Data Code Data Categories Theorise Write

Planning for questions

Summarise each page of your PhD in a sentence Be able to explain your PhD in 30 seconds Know the story of your PhD Identify the key points you want to conveyRemember you are there to talk about your PhD

Ask ‘why’three times... At least... Maybe ﬁve or even seven!

Exercise

• Why did you choose this qualitative approach?• What are the key weaknesses of your methods?• How would you do it differently?• What ways does you PhD move the ﬁeld forward?

Establish Review Design Questions Literature Collection DevelopCollect Data Code Data Categories PhD ! Theorise Write

Summary

• Juliet Corbin & Anselm Strauss, Basics of Qualitative Research:Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory• Norman Denzin & Yvonna Lincoln, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research• David Silverman, Doing Qualitative Research• Scott VanderStoep & Deidre Johnson, Research Methods For Everyday Life: Blending Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

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Qualitative Methods Workshop Day 2

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