Qualitative Analysis and Design

Question 1

little q

Answer 1

incorporating non-numerical data collection techniques into hypohetico-deductive research designs, similar to quantitative data analysis

Question 2

Big Q

Answer 2

open-ended, participant-led, bottom-up research methodologies concerned with theory generation and the exploration of meaning

Question 3

Epistemology

Answer 3

a branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge. How, and what, can we know?

Question 4

Realism/realist knowledge

Answer 4

seek to generate knowledge that captures and reflects as truthfully as possible something that is happening in the real world

Question 5

Phenomenology/ phenomenological knowledge

Answer 5

seek to produce knowledge about subjective experience of research participants

Question 6

Social constructionism

Answer 6

focus on the way in which people talk about their experiences, social construction of knowledge itself

Question 7

orthographic transcription

Answer 7

what is said and who is speaking

Question 8

jeffersonian transcription

Answer 8

what is being said and how it was said

Question 9

phases of thematic analysis

Answer 9

1. familiarisation
2. coding - breaking down the data
3. generation of initial themes
4. develop and review themes
5. define/name themes
6. write up theoretical finding

Question 10

inductive orientation to data

Answer 10

analysis driven by data

Question 11

deductive orientation to data

Answer 11

analysis shaped by existing theoretical constructs

Question 12

semantic focus of meaning

Answer 12

surface level, explicit meanings

Question 13

latent focus of meaning

Answer 13

underlying/implicit meanings

Question 14

experimental qualitative framework

Answer 14

aim to explore people’s perceptions and understandings

Question 15

critical qualitative framework

Answer 15

interrogate/unpack meaning around a topic or issue

Question 16

realist theoretical framework

Answer 16

capture truth and reality as expressed in the dataset

Question 17

phenomenological, social constructionist

Answer 17

interrogate, unpack realities expressed in data

Question 18

reflexivity

Answer 18

examining your own position/feelings/motives and how they influence your interpretations of the data

Question 19

Grounded Theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967)

Answer 19

data collection
- >
coding
->
theoretical sampling -> back to data collection, constant comparative analysis
->
theory

Question 20

idiographic

Answer 20

uniqueness, subjective experiences

Question 21

IPA

Answer 21

Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
aim:
indepth exploration of people’s lived expereinces and close examination of how people make sense of their experiences

Question 22

Discourse Analysis

Answer 22

How things are said in written and spoken language. social context crucial
social constructionist epistemology

Question 23

nomothetic

Answer 23

generalisability, objective, numerical data

Question 24

BPS primary ethical principles

Answer 24

respect (value dignity)
competence (maintain standards)
responsibility (avoidance of harm)
integrity (honesty, accuracy, fairness)

Question 25

open science

Answer 25

routine preparation of and subsequent sharing of research data in publicly available repositories

Question 26

river of life

Answer 26

exercise - metaphor depicting personal journey/history 1. define scope and reflect 2. frame 3. guide 4. contextualise 5. evaluate