Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners

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A comprehensive suite of student support materials, including practice exam questions, can be found online at www.sagepub.com/braunandclarke. Shortlisted for the BPS Book Award 2014 in the Textbook Category* *Winner of the 2014 Distinguished Publication Award (DPA) from the Association for Women in Psychology (AWP)* PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE FULL BOOK TEXT - PUBLISHER POLICY ONLY ALLOWS ACCESS TO AN EXTRACT OF THIS BOOK IN THE UWE BRISTOL RESEARCH REPOSITORY Uniquely, the authors provide a "patterns framework" to qualitative data analysis in this book, also known as "thematic analysis." The authors walk you through a basic thematic approach, and compare and contrast this with other approaches. This discussion of commonalities, explaining why and when each method should be used, and in the context of looking at patterns, will provide you with complete confidence for your qualitative research journey.

This book provides an excellent introduction to qualitative research, combining in-depth explanation of the distinctive nature and goals of qualitative research methods with practical tips and helpful examples for beginners' Seeks to understand and interpret more local meanings; recognises data as gathered in a context; sometimes produces knowledge that contributes to more general understandingsQualitative methods can be used as a precursor for quantitative research. For example, in a study of the effects of the experiences of depression, US professors of psychiatry and nursing James Coyne and Margaret Calarco (1995) conducted two focus groups and thematically organised participants’ statements into eight categories, drawing on these to develop a survey, which they used to generate the data they analysed. Lccn 2012940758 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9873 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1200123 Openlibrary_edition Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginnersis an accessible, practical textbook. It sidesteps detailed theoretical discussion in favor of providing a comprehensive overview of strategic tips and skills for starting and completing successful qualitative research.

The best part about all of this is that Dr. Braun and Clarke made me not hate quantitative research! They highlighted its uses and its pitfalls honestly and intelligently which made it much easier to return to my home university and struggle through (yet another) stats course!

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Uniquely, the authors provide a patterns framework to qualitative data analysis in this book, also known as thematic analysis. The authors walk students through a basic thematic approach, and compare and contrast this with other approaches. This discussion of commonalities, explaining why and when each method should be used, and in the context of looking at patterns, will provide students with complete confidence for their qualitative research journey. A clear, engaging and intelligent qualitative research guide which will greatly appeal to students new to this area. The authors should be commended for their lively style and attention to often hidden processes and practices involved in successful qualitative research'

Seeks to identify relationships between variables, to explain or predict – with the aim of generalising the findings to a wider population Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners is an accessible, practical textbook. It sidesteps detailed theoretical discussion in favour of providing a comprehensive overview of strategic tips and skills for starting and completing successful qualitative research. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-11-09 13:02:12 Associated-names Clarke, Victoria (Associate Professor in Sexuality Studies) Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA40760201 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Winner of the 2014 Distinguished Publication Award (DPA) from the Association for Women in Psychology (AWP)* On the record, I was often able to do this, but sometimes not - and it was very frustrating when I couldn't.Seeks consensus, norms, or general patterns; often aims to reduce diversity of responses to an average response It can be used alongside quantitative methods as part of a mixed methods design (see Mertens, 2005). In many mixed method designs, the qualitative component may be subsumed within a primarily quantitative, realist project, and it is rarely Big Q qualitative research. For instance, in food and farming researcher Charlotte Weatherall and colleagues’ (2003) study of UK consumer’s perceptions of food, farming and buying locally produced goods, the qualitative data from six focus groups were used to identify consumers priorities when buying food, perceptions of farming/food provision, and interest in local food production, and informed the development of a quantitative survey. The qualitative analysis was presented and interpreted alongside the quantitative results. The analysis described the content of what was said, assuming a direct relationship between what people say and what they believe (and do).

Uniquely, the authors provide a "patterns framework" to qualitative data analysis in this book, also known as "thematic analysis." The authors walk students through a basic thematic approach, and compare and contrast this with other approaches. This discussion of commonalities, explaining why and when each method should be used, and in the context of looking at patterns, will provide students with complete confidence for their qualitative research journey. Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners is an accessible, practical textbook. It sidesteps detailed theoretical discussion in favor of providing a comprehensive overview of strategic tips and skills for starting and completing successful qualitative research.To suture this, Dr. Braun and Clarke emphasize the necessity of practical experience. Qualitative research is a craft, not a recipe or equation - which makes it extremely contradictory to how we're taught to know things. For one, I felt the wording was often contrived and hard to follow, and that wasn't because of the materials complexity. Sometimes, I had to revisit sentences several times just to get rewrite the most bland sentence in my notebook - thus is the life of an academic I guess. This is an admirably useful textbook that provides an uncommonly accessible, practical, and absorbing introduction for beginners to qualitative research'