How to do qualitative research?
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This course is an essential resource for undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students, as well as anyone else undertaking a qualitative research project. Using practical examples, I take you through what should happen at various stages in the project’s schedule, starting with developing your research idea, research aims and research questions, and ending with a discussion of what to put in the Conclusions chapter.
I also explain the general research designs (e.g. Quantitative vs Qualitative research) and research methodologies (narrative research, ethnography, case study, grounded theory and phenomenology), as well as methods of data collection and analysis. I discuss a range of other elements of a qualitative research study (have a look at the course structure to explore it further) and provide down-to-earth explanations of the most confusing and complex terminology and issues related to research (e.g. how many participants/research methods are enough in a research study, what is, and how to increase validity, or what are philosophical worldviews and why are they so important).
This relaxed, but also clear and professional approach is in fact what my students (both those virtual and real-life) like most about my instruction. Take a minute to explore the course content, and join me in the course – I have a feeling that you will like it!
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Sampling techniques- What is a "sample"?
- Probability and non-probability samples
- Purposeful sampling
- Convenience sampling
- Snowball sampling
- Theoretical sampling
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Recruitment criteria, homogenous and heterogenous samples
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How many participants are enough in a qualitative study?
Some useful resources:
Baker, S. & Edwards, R. (eds., 2012). How many qualitative interviews is enough? Expert voices and early career reflections on sampling and cases in qualitative research. National Centre for Research Methods, 1-42.
Guest, G., Bunce, A. & Johnson, L. (2005). How many interviews are enough? An experiment with data saturation and variability. Field Methods, 18 (1), 59-82.
Mason, M. (2010). Sample Size and Saturation in PhD Studies Using Qualitative Interviews. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 11 (3).
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Friends or Participants? Recruiting friends and acquaintaces
Literature on researching friends:
Brewis, J. (2014). The ethics of researching friends: On convenience sampling in qualitative management and organization studies. British Journal of Management, 25, 849-862.
Ellis, C. (2007). Telling secrets, revealing lives: relational ethics in research with intimate others. Qualitative Inquiry, 13, 3–29.
Hodkinson, P. (2005). “Insider Research” in the study of youth cultures. Journal of Youth Studies, 8 (2), 131–149.
Humphrey, C. (2007). Insider–outsider: Activating the hyphen. Action Research, 5, 11–26.
Taylor, J. (2011). The intimate insider: negotiating the ethics of friendship when doing insider research. Qualitative Research, 11, 3–22.
Tillmann-Healy, L. M. (2003). Friendship as method. Qualitative Inquiry, 9, 729–749.
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Sampling and participants
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Introduction to data collection methods
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Unstructured, semi-structured and structured interviews
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Group interviews and focus groups
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Observation
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Diaries/Journals
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Various forms of documents
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Open-ended questionnaire responses
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Collecting Art for your research
Here are some books on the topic of arts based research. You can also watch me interview Dr Patricia Leavy, a leading arts-based research expert (and the author of several of these books) on my YT channel
"Method Meets Art" by Patricia Leavy https://amzn.to/3k9GFfz
"Handbook of Arts-Based Research" by Patricia Leavy https://amzn.to/3wj5Hhb
"Poetic Inquiry: Craft, Method and Practice" by Sandra Faulkner https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1138486949/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1138486949&linkCode=as2&tag=drkriukow-21&linkId=da3fbfea0b98a6fe82183983e2925161
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How many data collection methods should you have?
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Research methods
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Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA)
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Overview of common approaches to data analysis (and certain problems with them)
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More general approaches to QDA
The literature mentioned in the video
Miles, M.B. & Huberman, A.M. (1994). Qualitative Data analysis: an expanded sourcebook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. - AMAZON link https://amzn.to/3EX0wXD
Bazeley, P. (2013). Qualitative data analysis: Practical Strategies. London: SAGE Publications - AMAZON link https://amzn.to/3kdmjSF
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A practical, 3-step guide to analyzing qualitative data
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Using software for QDA - is it worth it and which one to use?
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Deductive and Inductive approaches, the role of theory in qualitative research
