Week 10 - qualitative research 1 Flashcards
What is qualitative research?
The word qualitative implies an emphasis on the qualities of entities and on processes and meanings that are not experimentally examined or measured (if measured at all) in terms of quantity, amount, intensity, or frequency. Qualitative researchers … seek answers to questions that stress how social experience is created and given meaning
**Qualitative research involves collecting and analyzing non-numerical data (e.g., text, video, or audio) to understand concepts, opinions, or experiences. It can be used to gather in-depth insights into a problem or generate new ideas for research.
Overview of Qualatative
paradigm Constructionism
design - Flexible and responds to context
data - unstructured or semi-structured interviews, observations or artefacts (photos)
Analysis - non-numerical analysis, focuses on underlying meanings and patterns of relationships
sample - depth of understanding rather than generalisability
What is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research?
Research about anything that impacts or would be particularly significant to Aboriginal or Torres Strait people.
Includes the planning, collection and analysis or information which is about or may affect Indigenous peoples lives collectively or individually
What are the characteristics of Indigenous research?
- Recognition of Indigenous worldviews
- Honouring social protocols in which Indigenous people can live, learn and situate themselves on their lands
- Emphasising social and political context which shapes their experience
- Indigenous research will privilege indigenous voices
- Identifies and addresses issues of importance to Indigenous people
How do you approach qualitative Indigenous research?
Theoretical framework
Research methodology
Research framework
What are some of the theoretical frameworks?
Interpretive approaches
Critical approaches
What is the interpretive theoretical framework?
Interested in the in-depth investigation of subjective
meanings and experiences
Examples: phenomenology, narrative approaches, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis
What is the critical theoretical framework?
- Interested in how social, cultural, political, ideological
and historical discourses shape (and are shaped by)
subjective meanings and experience
Examples: Feminism, Marxist analysis, critical discourse
analysis, Indigenous standpoint theory
What are qualitative research methodologies?
People as research subjects
People as research informative
People as research partners
SIP!
What does people as research subjects mean?
- Many human experiences are communicated
or displayed in some way - This conduct is available for social research
What does people as research informants mean?
- Many human experiences are subjective, private, and
therefore hidden from view - To access many subjective experiences, researchers must:
- Treat people as informants
- Find ways to facilitate communication of
subjective experience
What does people as research partners mean?
- Many human experiences cannot be understood by researchers alone
- Ongoing engagement with people as active research partners is necessary to make sense of their experiences
- Participatory action research developed to decolonize research practice and can be particularly useful for research with certain groups
- E.g., Aboriginal Participatory Action Research
What are qualitative research methods
- Selecting participants
- Generating data
- Analysing data
- How do you sample participants?
- Convenience/ pragmatic
- Snowball
- Purposeful
- Theoretical
How do you select sample size when selecting participants
- Analytic determination
- Information redundancy/ saturation
- Depth vs breadth
