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Qualitative Data Analysis
From Start to Finish

Second Edition


November 2018 | 328 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

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.




 
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

Provides the reader with an accessible and practical resource for undertaking the process of qualitative research analysis. A step by step approach with practical activities to help apply the principles and techniques included. The text is Ideal for first time researchers or those wishing to further develop their skills in analysis.

Mrs Karen Giles
Pharmacy Health And Wellbeing, Sunderland University
February 4, 2020
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