{"id":2708,"date":"2018-02-06T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gerardkilkenny.ie\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2018-08-29T21:43:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T20:43:27","slug":"s2-week-1-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gerardkilkenny.ie\/index.php\/2018\/02\/06\/s2-week-1-class\/","title":{"rendered":"S2-Week 1-Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Semester 2 (Week 1)<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Theses are the notes I took during the Tuesday afternoon workshop that took place from 14:00 to 17:00 on 6th February 2018.\u00a0\u00a0The tutors were\u00a0Dr Claire McAvinia<\/strong>\u00a0and Dr Ita Kennelly<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Topic for today’s workshop<\/h3>\n

– Qualitative Data Analysis<\/p>\n

How can you analyse your data?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do<\/strong><\/span>
\nGet close to your data
\nGive it time
\nKeep writing
\nChoose a method
\nBe consistent – so you can defend what you have done<\/p>\n

Don’t<\/strong><\/span>
\nBypass analysis through summarising
\nGloss over differences
\nJump to conclusions<\/p>\n

Rethinking some common issues<\/p>\n

Triangulation<\/p>\n

Can be from from quantitative to qualitative method or from one quantitative method to another (or one qualitative method to another).<\/p>\n

Addresses validity concerns<\/p>\n

Work Sequence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Numbering Questionnaires
\nData Entry
\nTotals under each categories, demographics
\nExploring the data
\nDesigning queries<\/p>\n

Check out Andy Fields YouTube videos on SPSS
\nEnvivo – qualitative data analysis software<\/p>\n

Qualitative Data Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interpretive – no one single result or truth
\nGetting data into a manageable shape<\/p>\n

Read all the data at once
\nDivide it up into manageable chunks<\/p>\n

Steps towards analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Become familiar with the data and identify potential themes
\n– Reading, memoing<\/p>\n

Examine the data in depth to provide descriptions of the setting, participant …<\/p>\n

Think about granularity<\/p>\n

Strategies used to analyse qualitative data<\/strong>
\n1. Identify the themes
\n2. Code your data
\n3. Ask key questions
\n4. Do an organisational review
\n5. Do concept mapping
\n.
\n.<\/p>\n

Some distinctions<\/p>\n

Content Analysis
\n– Quantifies the occurrence of words, themes, topics
\n– Conceptual (occurrence of the concepts) analysis and relational (possible links, meanings and concepts) analysis<\/p>\n

Thematic Analysis
\n– Braun and Clarke, 2006
\n– see steps on next slides<\/p>\n

Grounded Theory
\n– Strictly speaking – a complete research method
\n– But many people draw on the constant comparative methods of GT inalalysing qualitative data
\n– No a priori themes or categories<\/p>\n

Thematic Analysis<\/p>\n

Thematic analysis shares many of the principles and procedures of content analysis.<\/p>\n

Steps in Thematic Analysis – Braun & Clarke (2006, p.16-23 and their Table 1)<\/p>\n

1. Familiarise yourself with the data
\n– immerse yourself, read it a lot, look for patterns, taken
\n2. Generate initial codes
\n– Pieces of the data that are interesting to you, they will be organised themes as the units of your analysis
\n3. Search for themes
\n– Focus on a broader level of themes and organise codes into potential themes
\n4. Review the themes
\n5. Define and name the themes
\n– say what is important and why.
\n6. Produce the report\/written output<\/p>\n

Curating! (Selecting the relevant themes\/stories)<\/p>\n

Binaries – opposing sides to a similar theme<\/p>\n

Using software to help<\/strong><\/p>\n

Word and Excel are both good.<\/p>\n

iAnnotate can be used for making notes and adding sound clips to documents.<\/p>\n

Mind mapping software is useful
\n– MindManager
\n– FreeMind
\n– iMindMap
\n– Coggle<\/p>\n

Transcription
\n– You could try Dragon available from http:\/\/www.software4students.ie<\/p>\n

NVivo
\n– available from http:\/\/downloads.dit.ie<\/p>\n

MaxQDA
\n– http:\/\/www.maxqda.com<\/p>\n

NVivo and MaxQDA both have 30-day free trials<\/p>\n

To consider:
\n– Technical demand on your computer
\n– Time demands in setting up your project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Semester 2 (Week 1) Theses are the notes I took during the Tuesday afternoon workshop that took place from 14:00 to 17:00 on 6th February 2018.\u00a0\u00a0The tutors were\u00a0Dr Claire McAvinia\u00a0and Dr Ita Kennelly. Topic for today’s workshop – Qualitative Data Analysis How can you analyse your data? Do Get close to your data Give it … Continue reading S2-Week 1-Class<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-modules","category-semester-2","category-week-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gerardkilkenny.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gerardkilkenny.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gerardkilkenny.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gerardkilkenny.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gerardkilkenny.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gerardkilkenny.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2712,"href":"http:\/\/gerardkilkenny.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions\/2712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gerardkilkenny.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gerardkilkenny.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gerardkilkenny.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}