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Qualitative Research Methods - Coggle Diagram
Qualitative Research Methods
Intro
Based on collection and analysis of non-numerical data
Features
Very subjective - two / three people must anayise the data and compare
Generate ideas and theories
Descriptive and search for meaning & understanding
Useful for policy and management
Exploratory & inductive
No preconceived assumptions
Patterns emerged from the collected data
Researcher becomes the instrument
Involves finding out what people
think
or how people
feel
Types
Phemome
Research Design
Phenomenology - you go with a initial idea
Study of how people describe h=things and expericnce them,
Ethonography
Go and stay witth - understand the culture
Grounded theory
Oppersite to phenomenolocal studies - researcher need to live with and participate in the daily lives of those expericning.
Case series
Describe - then mostly
Methods of collecting qualitative data
Individual interviews - able to catch rich understandding
Focus groups - more like a discussion, NOT a Q&A
90 minutes
Summerise infront of participants
assess the level of saturation
Observations
Written documents, video recording & photographs
Data Analysis
Field notes
Interview & focus group transcripts
Documentary material
Researcher's own record