Qualitative data analysis : from start to finish / Jamie Harding.

By: Harding, Jamie
Language: English Publisher: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, 2019Edition: 2nd editionDescription: xx, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781526402806 (pbk)Subject(s): Qualitative research -- Methodology
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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

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.

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