The first part of this presentation is available at http://www.slideshare.net/Jasieboy/qualitative-methods-workshop-day-1.

1. Qualitative Research
Methods 1I
March 31st 2011, KU Leuven
Jason Rutter

2. Overview
Managing your research 9.00-10.15
Analysis of your data 10.30-12.00
Writing your qualitative chapters 1.00-3.00
Planning for questions 3.15-17.00
Emphasis on individual development and feedback

3. Managing your research
Analysis of your data
Writing your qualitative chapters
Planning for questions

4. Undertaking Research
Getting In : Getting On : Getting Out

5. What can go wrong?

6. No access
Participants don’t show
Recording equipment does work
Lost data
Lose key informant
Promoter leaves
External events change
etc...
These must be planned for and the risk managed.

7. Exercise

8. In groups:
List potential challenges that might arise.
How can these be avoided?
What can be done if they happen?
Problem Manage Risk Solution

9. Managing your research
Analysis of your data
Writing your qualitative chapters
Planning for questions

10. Analysing your research

11. Establish Design
Questions Collection
Develop
Collect Data Code Data
Categories
Write

12. Tackling your data
Capturing:
Field notes, transcripts, pictures, personal
Growing Familiarity
responses, etc.
Segmenting:
Arrange in meaningful chunks
Coding:
Identify themes, concepts, patterns, relationships
Categorising:
Grouping the themes you have identified

13. Exercise

14. What are the units of your data?
List the ‘what?’, ‘who?’, ‘when’?, ‘how’ and, finally, ‘why?’
How can you tell these using your story?

15. Managing your research
Analysis of your data
Writing your qualitative chapters
Planning for questions

16. Writing your research

17. Identify the key points in your story
Use those to organise your data chapters
• How does this chapter fit into your story?
• What is the theoretical background?
• What does you data suggest?
• How can this be illustrated?
• What is the outcome of this?

18. Establish Design
Questions Collection
Develop
Collect Data Code Data
Categories
Write

19. Establish Review Design
Questions Literature Collection
Develop
Collect Data Code Data
Categories
Theorise Write

20. The Hypothesis-Test-Discuss model
is poorly suited to qualitative research

21. Exercise

22. As a group:
• What does a PhD look like?
• What is its purpose?
• If you were reviewing a PhD what
would you look for?

23. Managing your research
Analysis of your data
Writing your qualitative chapters
Planning for questions

24. Planning for questions

25. Summarise each page of your PhD in a sentence
Be able to explain your PhD in 30 seconds
Know the story of your PhD
Identify the key points you want to convey
Remember you are there to talk about your PhD

26. Ask ‘why’
three times...
At least... Maybe five or even seven!

27. Exercise

28. • Use you summaries, stories & questions to structure
your answers.
• Bullet key points you can delivery quickly.
• Know where you sentence is going to end.
• Use examples from your PhD.
• Be able to refer to other work (carefully).

29. • Why did you choose this qualitative approach?
• What are the key weaknesses of your methods?
• How would you do it differently?
• What ways does you PhD move the field forward?

30. Establish Review Design
Questions Literature Collection
Develop
Collect Data Code Data
Categories
PhD
!
Theorise Write

31. The Hypothesis-Test-Discuss model
is poorly suited to qualitative research

32. Summary

33. • Juliet Corbin & Anselm Strauss, Basics of Qualitative Research:Techniques
and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory
• Norman Denzin & Yvonna Lincoln, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative
Research
• David Silverman, Doing Qualitative Research
• Scott VanderStoep & Deidre Johnson, Research Methods For Everyday Life:
Blending Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

34. Jason.Rutter@soc.kuleuven.be
http://www.slideshare.net/Jasieboy