Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners

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The use of qualitative techniques outside a qualitative paradigm ( small q qualitative research) happens in different ways: A qualitative research project may be conducted in a realist, positivist way, where the values and assumptions of Big Q qualitative research are rejected. Skills-based, utilising a range of pedagogical features to encourage you to apply particular techniques and learn from your experience. I read this book per request of my summer research advisor during my undergrad. At the time, my only experience with qualitative research was extremely "practical." I hosted radio shows and podcasts with friends, constantly sought intimate conversations with people that "interested" me, and tended to find my most exciting discoveries from diaries and books. In other words, I was a literature student, not a psychologist - especially in the lab.

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 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 is an admirably useful textbook that provides an uncommonly accessible, practical, and absorbing introduction for beginners to qualitative research' 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. This textbook will be an essential textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates taking a course in qualitative research or using qualitative approaches in a research project. 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. Seeks consensus, norms, or general patterns; often aims to reduce diversity of responses to an average response

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! 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 In the end, I think this book is essential to any budding psychologist interested in quantitative or qualitative research. As a discipline we should be able to utilize and see value in any tool in the shed - and qualitative research can clearly do some amazing things! In case it already isn't, I hope this book becomes a core part of any Intro to Psychology course. Qualitative 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. 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)* 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. 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. This textbook will be an essential textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates taking a course in qualitative research or using qualitative approaches in a research project. Contents 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. In case you couldn't tell, I turned to qualitative research out of spite for quantitative research which, at the time, I felt had become increasingly reductionist and generalizable to a fault. At the time, my research topics tended to reside in intersections between Anxiety, Autism, and Religion. This meant that numbers were rarely capable of illustrating any phenomenon I was interested in. This was becoming so frustrating that I had to seek help from universities across the pond - which led to the summer research opportunity I mentioned earlier. My hope at that point was that Qualitative research could investigate the complexities of humanity with a little more nuance than statistical probabilities. 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 urn:oclc:record:1359404216 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier successfulqualit0000brau Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2kvx6p28cv Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781847875815

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. 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. I also occasionally found some typos while reading but rarely enough to slow me down. I think one of them was ironically in a section that talked about the importance of clear wording in interview questions. 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. 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. 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.

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Seeks to identify relationships between variables, to explain or predict – with the aim of generalising the findings to a wider population