Live Sessions
Quality in Qualitative Research
Presenter: Nigel King
Prerequisites: All welcome but a basic understanding of qualitative research and data analysis will be helpful
View the recording: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/ra2022-live-sessions/lessons/40622200-quality-in-qualitative-research
It is widely understood that qualitative researchers need to demonstrate the quality of their research in ways that enable those who read it to judge its strengths and weaknesses. However, as with so much in qualitative research, there is no consensus on how this should be done, and the diversity of qualitative approaches and methods means any search for a universal prescription for quality assurance is bound to fail. In this webinar, Professor King will shed some light on how qualitative researchers can address quality in useful and effective ways. He will consider arguments about the criteria we should use for assessing quality – do we adapt some of those from quantitative/positivistic research, propose alternative qualitative-specific criteria, or accept that general criteria of any kind are impossible for qualitative research and perhaps undesirable? He will then move on to the nuts and bolts of performing quality assurance, considering tactics such as inter-researcher comparisons, using expert panels, respondent feedback and the importance of audit trails. Throughout, Professor King will argue that clarity about your philosophical and methodological approach is crucial to making good choices about how you tackle quality in your qualitative research.
Things I've Learned (So Far)
Presenter: Lyn Lavery
Prerequisites: None
View the recording: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/ra2022-live-sessions/lessons/40625285-things-i-ve-learned-so-far
Our Director, Lyn Lavery, recently conducted a series of interviews with various qualitative analysis experts (these are available to you as on-demand sessions for the conference). In this webinar, Lyn reflects on what she learned from these interviews, particularly concerning how different people approach the messy task of qualitative analysis and the similarities and differences across different approaches. Lyn will also reflect on her own experience of analysing qualitative data across a variety of different projects.
Qualitative Live Q&A
Presenters: David Thomas and Lyn Lavery
Prerequisites: None
View the recording: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/ra2022-live-sessions/lessons/40627886-qualitative-live-q-a
Join David Thomas and Lyn Lavery for a live Q&A session to wrap up Day 1. Bring along any questions you have from the Day 1 content (or qualitative analysis in general) and we’ll answer them for you. Submit your question ahead of time if you can’t attend in person and you can watch the recording when it's convenient.
On-demand Sessions
All on-demand sessions are presented by Lyn Lavery
Qualitative Analysis for Beginners
Session duration: 78 mins
Prerequisites: None
Session Link: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/qualitative-analysis
This session provides a focused introduction to qualitative data analysis, covering the key stages in the process, including coding and identifying patterns in your data. The session is interspersed with practical tips and will leave you feeling more confident in approaching this vital, but inevitably messy, stage of the research cycle.
Developing Themes
Session duration: 45 mins
Prerequisites: Researchers with qualitative data analysis experience
Session Link: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/themes
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 session discusses a range of practical strategies and techniques to help you develop themes from your coding. This session is not NVivo specific, so any interested qualitative researcher is welcome to attend.
Qualitative Data Analysis: A Quick Tour
Session duration: 37 mins
Prerequisites: A basic understanding of qualitative analysis
Session Link: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/qual-tour
Need to know the difference between grounded theory and content analysis? Wondering if you should use thematic analysis, IPA, narrative analysis or something else? This session will provide a brief overview of some of the more commonly used approaches to analysing qualitative data. We’ll also provide a recommended reading list for those who want to follow-up a specific approach.
Transcription Tips and Tricks
Session duration: 84 mins
Prerequisites: None
Session Link: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/transcription
Producing high-quality transcripts is an essential part of the qualitative data analysis process. This session will provide some practical advice for transcription. We’ll discuss the use of consistent conventions, different levels of verbatim, equipment/software options and preparing transcripts for import into NVivo. We’ll also look at machine-based transcription options currently available and compare them on both pricing and quality.
Reflexive Thematic Analysis: An Interview with Ginny Braun
Session duration: 79 mins
Prerequisites: None
Session Link: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/an-interview-with-ginny-braun
Reflexive thematic analysis is an extremely popular form of thematic analysis, developed by Braun and Clarke. In this recorded interview, Lyn Lavery sits down with Professor Ginny Braun to discuss reflexive thematic analysis, and how this approach differs from the original 2006 paper she published with Victoria Clarke. Ginny details the six phases of their approach and, along the way, provides plenty of practical tips for the process. In this wide-ranging interview, they also discuss thematic analysis more generally, what themes are, how to avoid ‘topic summaries’ and much more.
Template Analysis: An Interview with Nigel King
Session duration: 61 mins
Prerequisites: None
Session Link: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/template-analysis
Template analysis is a form of thematic analysis that balances flexibility with structure in relation to the data analysis process, and involves the development of a coding template that is applied to the data. In this recorded interview, Lyn Lavery sits down with Professor Nigel King to discuss his template analysis approach. They cover the steps involved in template analysis, how it relates to other approaches such as Braun and Clarke’s reflexive thematic analysis, and what some of Nigel’s tips are for dealing with the messiness of the qualitative analysis process.
General Inductive Approach: An Interview with David Thomas
Session duration: 60 mins
Prerequisites: None
Session Link: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/general-inductive-approach
The general inductive approach is a straightforward, intuitive approach to analysing qualitative data and is heavily used in health and evaluation research. In this recorded interview, Lyn Lavery sits down with Professor David Thomas to discuss this approach, along with a range of other issues such as quality in qualitative research, the use of NVivo, the appropriateness of quantifying qualitative data and choosing a qualitative analysis approach.
Narrative Analysis: An Interview with Janine Wiles
Session duration: 52 mins
Prerequisites: None
Session Link: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/narrative-analysis
Narrative analysis seeks to understand how research participants construct story and narrative from their own personal experience. In this recorded interview, Lyn Lavery sits down with Associate Professor Janine Wiles to discuss this analysis approach, along with issues in qualitative data analysis more generally.
Qualitative Writing for Beginners
Session duration: 60 mins
Pre-requisites: None
Course Link: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/qualitative-writing
Writing up qualitative research can be challenging. This session covers tips and tricks for managing this process and techniques for getting started. There will be guidance on representing the researcher’s voice within your writing as well as practical ideas for working with NVivo coding and effective use of verbatim extracts.