Developing Themes

Practical strategies for developing themes from your qualitative codes, drawing on Braun and Clarke and Johnny Saldaña. Covers code-and-category handling, the touch test, code weaving, and using tables and models as thinking tools.

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By Lyn Lavery

Developing Themes
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Course Description

What’s the difference between a code and a theme, and if themes don’t “emerge from the data” how on earth do you develop them? This course will discuss a range of practical strategies and techniques to help you develop themes from your coding. Note that this session is not NVivo specific.

This is an intermediate level course for researchers with qualitative data analysis experience.

Course Outline

Approximate Length: 45 minutes

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    Developing Themes

    • Introduction

    • Moving from Codes to Themes

    • Models and Matrices

    • Downloads for Developing Themes