Summary
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Social work research often focuses on qualitative designs and many students believe that the quantitative research pathway is either too complicated or is beyond their grasp. This book outlines how social work students can undertake a research project from either a qualitative, quantitative or mixed methodological approach. The authors introduce key concepts in an accessible and structured manner and go on to demonstrate each of the approaches from inception of research idea, to realisation of methodological approach, to research process, to data analysis and conclusion.
: Qualitative Data Analysis
: Qualitative Data Analysis
Chapter Aims
This chapter will:
- focus on analysis of qualitative research data, and on analysing the qualitative data in audit and service evaluation projects;
- explore the practicalities of data management, transcription, coding and developing themes;
- discuss qualitative data collection and analysis as an iterative, incremental process;
- describe the organisation, classification and reduction of data to a manageable format;
- look at how to develop meaningful and insightful analysis;
- explore reflection as an essential component of qualitative research;
- focus on aspects of rigour such as generalisability, validity and reliability;
- help you to understand the use of theory within qualitative analysis;
- discuss the use of qualitative research to develop theories and models.
Introduction
The focus of this chapter is on basic thematic analysis, which underpins all qualitative data analysis. This is generally appropriate for ...
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