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This is the ideal book to get you up and running with the basics of qualitative data analysis. It breaks everything down into a series of simple steps and introduces the practical tools and techniques you need to turn your transcripts into meaningful research.
Using multidisciplinary data from interviews and focus groups Jamie Harding provides clear guidance on how to apply key research skills such as making summaries, identifying similarities, drawing comparisons and using codes.
The book sets out real world applicable advice, provides easy to follow best practice and helps you to:
* Manage and sort your data
* Find your argument and define your conclusions
* Answer your research question
* Write up your research for assessment and dissemination
Clear, pragmatic and honest this book will give you the perfect framework to start understanding your qualitative data and to finish your research project.
This is the ideal book to get you up and running with the basics of qualitative data analysis. It breaks everything down into a series of simple steps and introduces the practical tools and techniques you need to turn your transcripts into meaningful research.
Using multidisciplinary data from interviews and focus groups Jamie Harding provides clear guidance on how to apply key research skills such as making summaries, identifying similarities, drawing comparisons and using codes.
The book sets out real world applicable advice, provides easy to follow best practice and helps you to:
* Manage and sort your data
* Find your argument and define your conclusions
* Answer your research question
* Write up your research for assessment and dissemination
Clear, pragmatic and honest this book will give you the perfect framework to start understanding your qualitative data and to finish your research project.
STAGE 1 RESEARCH DESIGN AND PREPARATION
Chapter 1 Introduction to qualitative social research
Chapter 2 Designing qualitative research: your key questions
Chapter 3 Practical issues in qualitative research
STAGE 2 DATA COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT
Chapter 4 Collecting and managing interview data
Chapter 5 Collecting and managing focus group data
STAGE 3 DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
Chapter 6 A brief introduction to the analysis of qualitative
data
Chapter 7 Step one for analysing your interview data - making
summaries and comparisons
Chapter 8 Step two for analysing your interview data – using
codes
Chapter 9 Step three for analysing your interview data - finding
conceptual themes and building theory
Chapter 10 Analysing your focus group data
Chapter 11 Alternative approaches to analysing qualitative data
STAGE 4 DISSEMINATION
Chapter 12 Writing about your qualitative research
Jamie Harding received his PhD from the Department of Sociology and
Social Policy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He
has been employed at Northumbria University since 1995, first as a
lecturer in Housing Studies and more recently as a Senior Lecturer
in Research Methods in the Department of Social Sciences.
Before moving into higher education he worked for a number of
social housing organisations.
Jamie’s main area of interest is qualitative and quantitative
research methods, which he teaches at undergraduate, postgraduate
and doctoral level. He also lectures on criminal justice – an
area where he has edited a textbook – and homelessness, a subject
on which he has written two monographs. He is programme
leader for the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship, which is run
in partnership with Northumbria Police.
Jamie is married with two adult children and two
grandchildren. He enjoys running and was delighted to win the
highly prestigious Claremont Road Runners summer club handicap race
in 2021.
This is a must-have book for anyone considering qualitative data
analysis. It is accessible and coherent and the many interesting
examples make the processes of data collection and analysis very
clear. The consistent format makes it very user friendly and I will
use it to inform my own research as well as with my students.
*Liane Purnell*
This text helps students apply qualitative research to the practice
context. The book is punctuated with ‘real life’ practical examples
from the author’s own experience of conducting qualitative
investigations. In my opinion this is the best text of its
kind.
*Steven Whitcombe*
A comprehensive, pragmatic book that uses real research to
illustrate the steps and decisions that a researcher needs to take
when using qualitative methodology.
*Jenny Povey*
A superb guide for qualitative research. Thorough and accessible,
it walks students through all the steps, and provides compelling
examples along the way.
*Alex Schwartz*
The author uses nice examples from his own work to demonstrate how
and why to apply his tips and principles. This is particularly
useful in demonstrating coding in section three.
[...]
this is a useful and readable book on the practicalities of
conducting a qualitative research project, and one to which I will
certainly return for reference
*SRA Research Matters*
It′s main premise is that, to really get under the skin of a
research issue, the research needs to look much deeper into the
′psycho-biography′ of research participants. This mapping of
people′s psycho-biography determines people′s personal
identity -- their motives, personal style, and how
they behave
[...]
Layder criticizes most research projects as being too one
dimensional and simplistic. Investigative research is a largely
exploratory methods of research. It encourages researchers to map
the relevant psycho-biographies of individuals to formulate an
initial ′conceptual scaffold′ that is the basis for the
explanation of the social behaviour under investigation. This
guides and directs data collection processes. But Layder also
advises being open to new concepts and encourages researchers to
keep researching to test and/or revise theories and hypotheses
*SRA Research Matters*
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