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The Research Experience
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| What happens in the early stages of a student research project? In this fascinating article, based on their own supervisor-student relationship, Li and Seale examine the kinds of problems that can arise in analysing your data and how these problems can be overcome.
Qualitative Health Research, 17 (10), 1442-52 (December 2007)
http://qhr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/10/1442
Teaching Matters
'Learning to do qualitative data analysis: an observational study of doctoral work'
Sarah Li, Kingston University and St George's, University of London, UK
Clive Seale, Brunel University, UK
EXERCISE
- Review what lessons you have learned from this paper.
- What new questions can you ask your supervisor to help you improve your data analysis skills?
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What is it like to do fieldwork? In this paper, Susan Murray teases out the moral, ethical and political decisions that take place in the field.
Qualitative Research, 3 (3), 377-95 (2003)
DOI 10.1177/1468794103033006
http://qrj.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/3/3/377
'A spy, a shill, a go-between or a sociologist: unveiling the "observer" in participant observer'
Susan B. Murray, San Jose State University, USA
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| Too often, qualitative researchers use documents as mere background material. In this paper, Lindsay Prior shows you how to think about using documentary material as basic data.
Sociology, 42 (5), 821-36 (2008)
DOI 10.1177/0038038508094564
http://soc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/42/5/821
'Repositioning documents in social research'
Lindsay Prior, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
TIP
Not every document you come across in your research has to be treated as a set of true or false statements. Take any one document relevant to your topic and ask:
- How has the document been put together to make its statements seem credible?
- What can you learn from this about how the topics you are concerned with are being 'constructed' by the authors of this document?
- Where could you find other documents which might construct these 'facts' differently?
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| This paper shows how you can use the Internet to recruit people for an interview study.
Qualitative Health Research, 18 (2), 268-79 (2008)
DOI 10.1177/1049732307312832
http://qhr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/18/2/268
'Online dating and mating: the use of the Internet to meet sexual partners'
Danielle Couch, La Trobe University, Australia
Pranee Liamputtong, La Trobe University, Australia
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| Since 1999, blogs have become a significant part of online culture. In this paper, Nicholas Hookway considers how you can treat the 'blogosphere' as data.
Qualitative Research, 8 (1), 91-113 (2008)
DOI 10.1177/1468794107085298
http://qrj.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/8/1/91
'"Entering the blogosphere": some strategies for using blogs in social research'
Nicholas Hookway, University of Tasmania at Launceston, Australia
EXERCISE
If you are considering interviewing people face-to-face, assess what you would gain and lose by using the Internet as an alternative source of data.
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Feminism Psychology, 17 (133) (2007), Special Feature
Feminist Conversation Analysis: Research by Students at the University of York, UK.
Edited by Celia Kitzinger
http://fap.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/17/2/133
'Editor's introduction: the promise of conversation analysis for feminist research'
Celia Kitzinger
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