Successful Qualitative Research

This accessible, practical 'how to' guide provides students with a step-by-step toolkit of the why, when and how of qualitative methods, for anyone studying qualitative research or doing a research project.

Informationen zum Autor Virginia Braun is a Professor in the School of Psychology at The University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is a feminist and critical (health) psychologist and teaches around gender and psychology and critical health psychology at undergraduate and graduate levels. When she gets time for it, her research (sometimes in collaboration with Victoria Clarke) explores the intersecting areas of gender, bodies, sex/sexuality, health, and (now) food. She is on Twitter @ginnybraun, where sometimes her tweets about qualitative research, usually in that case a retweet of an awesome thread by Victoria. Victoria Clarke is an Associate Professor in Qualitative and Critical Psychology in the Department of Health and Social Sciences at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, where she teaches about qualitative methods, and gender and sexuality, and supervises student research, on a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. When she's not busy collaborating with Virginia Braun, she has conducted research in the intersecting areas of gender and sexuality, family and relationships, and appearance and embodiment. She is also active on Twitter mainly tweeting about thematic analysis and qualitative research @drvicclarke. Klappentext This accessible, practical 'how to' guide provides students with a step-by-step toolkit of the why, when and how of qualitative methods, for anyone studying qualitative research or doing a research project. Zusammenfassung This accessible, practical 'how to' guide provides students with a step-by-step toolkit of the why, when and how of qualitative methods, for anyone studying qualitative research or doing a research project. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements PART ONE: Successfully Getting Started in Qualitative Research Chapter One: Some Very Important Starting Information Chapter Two: 10 Fundamentals of Qualitative Research Chapter Three: Planning and Designing Qualitative Research PART TWO: Sucessfully Collecting Qualitative Data Chapter Four: Interactive Data Collection 1: Interviews Chapter Five: Interactive Data Collection 2: Focus Groups Chapter Six: Textual Data Collection: Surveys, Stories, Diaries and Secondary Sources PART THREE: Successfully analysing Qualitative Data Chapter Seven: Preparing Audio Data for Analysis: Transcription Chapter Eight: Moving Towards Analysis Chapter Nine: First Analytic Steps: Familiarization and Data Coding Chapter Ten: Identifying Patterns across Data Chapter Eleven: Analyzing and Interpreting Patterns Across Data PART FOUR: Successfully Completing Qualitative Research Chapter Twelve: Quality Criteria and Techniques for Qualitative Research Chapter Thirteen: Writing and Communicating Qualitative Research ...

Autorentext
Virginia Braun is a Professor in the School of Psychology at The University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is a feminist and critical (health) psychologist and teaches around gender and psychology and critical health psychology at undergraduate and graduate levels. When she gets time for it, her research (sometimes in collaboration with Victoria Clarke) explores the intersecting areas of gender, bodies, sex/sexuality, health, and (now) food. She is on Twitter @ginnybraun, where sometimes her tweets about qualitative research, usually in that case a retweet of an awesome thread by Victoria. Victoria Clarke is an Associate Professor in Qualitative and Critical Psychology in the Department of Health and Social Sciences at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, where she teaches about qualitative methods, and gender and sexuality, and supervises student research, on a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. When shes not busy collaborating with Virginia Braun, she has conducted research in the intersecting areas of gender and sexuality, family and relationships, and appearance and embodiment. She is also active on Twitter mainly tweeting about thematic analysis and qualitative research @drvicclarke.

Klappentext
This accessible, practical 'how to' guide provides students with a step-by-step toolkit of the why, when and how of qualitative methods, for anyone studying qualitative research or doing a research project.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements
PART ONE: Successfully Getting Started in Qualitative Research
Chapter One: Some Very Important Starting Information
Chapter Two: 10 Fundamentals of Qualitative Research
Chapter Three: Planning and Designing Qualitative Research
PART TWO: Sucessfully Collecting Qualitative Data
Chapter Four: Interactive Data Collection 1: Interviews
Chapter Five: Interactive Data Collection 2: Focus Groups
Chapter Six: Textual Data Collection: Surveys, Stories, Diaries and Secondary Sources
PART THREE: Successfully analysing Qualitative Data
Chapter Seven: Preparing Audio Data for Analysis: Transcription
Chapter Eight: Moving Towards Analysis
Chapter Nine: First Analytic Steps: Familiarization and Data Coding
Chapter Ten: Identifying Patterns across Data
Chapter Eleven: Analyzing and Interpreting Patterns Across Data
PART FOUR: Successfully Completing Qualitative Research
Chapter Twelve: Quality Criteria and Techniques for Qualitative Research
Chapter Thirteen: Writing and Communicating Qualitative Research