Qualitative - 01 Flashcards
what is qualitative research and why?
systematic analysis/investigation Establishes understanding of human experience and behaviour
not test or verify
Ð Gain insights into different perspectives
Ð In-depth analysis of experience
Ð A ‘what it is like to be’ – a how, a why.
what is Interpretivist Research?
Ð Reality is not fixed and is a socially constructed process
Ð CAN be accessed through descriptions of experience
Ð Considers interaction with researcher
Ð Gains insight into experience as lived
what is phenomenology?
Ð Study of the way the social world appears to and is understood by individuals: experienced as lived
in this view reality is …..
Ð Reality is experiential and meaningful – being in the world
Ð Practical engagement with things and others
Ð Accessed by others through interpretation of descriptions
what role does language play here?
Ð Languague perfroms functionse.g. justifies, blames, accuses
Ð Language provides construction of reality, not representation
Ð But can construct and convey a sense of self
what types of qualitative data are there?
Photographs emails Images Videos / phone calls / Pictures Drawings / blogs / everday conversations Obserbvations / websites / diaries
what type of research Explores how language is used ?
Discourse Analysis
what type of research Identify themes emerging from accounts ?
IPA - thematic
what type of research Understand stories?
narrative analysis
what type of research Examines talk? and pictures ?
conversation analysis / visual
what is the researcher’s role in this ?
Ð Part of the research process
Ð Is bound as co-constructor of the research experience description
Ð Enables and limits what can be described and how
Ð Considers own role and position in the process
Ð Makes explicit their impact on the research
what ethical considerations are the same as quantitative ?
Ð Informed consent Ð No deception Ð Right to withdraw Ð Debriefing Ð Confidentiality
what ethical considerations are different from quantitative ?
Ð In depth
Ð Personal experience
Ð Probing answers about challenging or difficult previously unthought of topics
Ð Enabling people to construct meaning – perhaps for the first time
positive ethics
what is positive ethics?
An aim to deliver positive benefits to participants
Ð GOES BEYOND TICK BOX APPROACH
Ð Considers value of the research
Ð Considers the benefits of the research taking place
Ð Considers the benefits to those participating
Ð Raises researcher awareness of their own interest and motivations for the research
Considers the cultural and other contexts in shaping the research
four markers of quality in QUalitative
Transparency:
Reflexivity:
Contribution:
Coherence:
what is Transparency ?
Transparency: provide as much information as possible to the reader
what is Reflexivity?
making your own role and that of the method explicit
the key point is to include reflections on the researcher’s role in research in a way that is clear, honest and informative.
what is Contribution?
why is the research useful?
what is Coherence?
have you clearly explained the research process
what are the Three components to be reflexive about?
Three components to be reflexive about:
Ð Method
Ð Epistemology
Ð Discipline
what is Reflexivity for the METHOD?
Reflexivity for the METHOD
Ð How the research should be conducted in order to provide a convincing account
Ð Alternative interpretations and their refutation
Ð Role researhers play in producing results
Ð Methodological choices made and reasons
Reflexivity for the EPISTEMOLOGY?
Ð What our approach can actually tell us about the nature of the world and human action
Ð What are our aims in conductin the research
Ð What assumptions are bought to the research by the theories we use in it – and the experiences we bring to it.
what is Reflexivity for the DSICIPLINE ?
Reflexivity for the DSICIPLINE
Ð Why were we so interested in these particular research questions
Ð What discipliniary based interpretive frameworks inform our accounts
Ð How does our discipline background focus us and fixate us on certain aspects of the research and not others
Ð Whose voices were allowed to be heard
Trying to bring out themes in the qualititative data whlist making it explicit the limitations of the process
