Karen O'Reilly

Karen O’Reilly, 2025, Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit Bristol: Policy Press.

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“Interpreting does not mean making it up and is not purely subjective. It involves rendering experiences meaningful in the context of what it is possible to understand given one’s own experiences.” (page 13)

“a structured phenomenology, as in practice theory, interprets the subjective experiences of participants (their phenomenology) as always anchored within, and infused by, past and present structural contexts”. (page 16)

“Methodology is the understanding ology of how the research will be approached, the logic behind decisions about what methods to use. The methods are the means through which data are collected or generated.” (page 19)

“A positivist or objectivist approach, fails in its own purpose, because at every step of the way it imposes the researchers view of the world.” (page 10)

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