Qualitative - 01

Question 1

what is qualitative research and why?

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

what is Interpretivist Research?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

what is phenomenology?

Answer 3

Ð Study of the way the social world appears to and is understood by individuals: experienced as lived

Question 4

in this view reality is …..

Answer 4

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

Question 5

what role does language play here?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

what types of qualitative data are there?

Answer 6

Photographs
emails
Images 
Videos  / 
phone calls / 
Pictures
Drawings / 
blogs / 
everday conversations 	
Obserbvations / 
websites / 
diaries

Question 7

what type of research Explores how language is used ?

Answer 7

Discourse Analysis

Question 8

what type of research Identify themes emerging from accounts ?

Answer 8

IPA - thematic

Question 9

what type of research Understand stories?

Answer 9

narrative analysis

Question 10

what type of research Examines talk? and pictures ?

Answer 10

conversation analysis / visual

Question 11

what is the researcher’s role in this ?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

what ethical considerations are the same as quantitative ?

Answer 12

Ð	Informed consent 
Ð	No deception 
Ð	Right to withdraw 
Ð	Debriefing 
Ð	Confidentiality

Question 13

what ethical considerations are different from quantitative ?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

what is positive ethics?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

four markers of quality in QUalitative

Answer 15

Transparency:
Reflexivity:
Contribution:
Coherence:

Question 16

what is Transparency ?

Answer 16

Transparency: provide as much information as possible to the reader

Question 17

what is Reflexivity?

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

what is Contribution?

Answer 18

why is the research useful?

Question 19

what is Coherence?

Answer 19

have you clearly explained the research process

Question 20

what are the Three components to be reflexive about?

Answer 20

Three components to be reflexive about:

Ð Method
Ð Epistemology
Ð Discipline

Question 21

what is Reflexivity for the METHOD?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Reflexivity for the EPISTEMOLOGY?

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

what is Reflexivity for the DSICIPLINE ?

Answer 23

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