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Continue reading →: Two exciting new things
I’m working on a new project. it is called Picking for Britain, and it Examines the experiences of agricultural employers and British harvest workers during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond https://www.glos.ac.uk/academic-schools/natural-and-social-sciences/Pages/picking-for-britain.aspx And I am now a a member of the Standing Review Board of the Research Grants Council and University Grants Committee,…
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Continue reading →: How do you DO reflexivity? See this open access article
Michaela Benson and I have had this article published in Qualitative Research. Here is the full reference: Reflexivity as Practice Benson, M. and O’Reilly, K. (2020) Reflexive Practice in Live Sociology: Lessons fromresearching Brexit in the lives of British Citizens living in the EU-27, Qualitative Research And here is the abstract: This…
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Continue reading →: Interview with the Instituto Cervantes, Manchester
Just before Christmas I was interviewed by Pedro, from the Instituto Cervantes Manchester about why British people love to move to Spain. It was a really fun, if nerve-wracking thing to do. If you feel that way inclined you can watch the YouTube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sjnLYeJ9d8
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Continue reading →: How to evaluate qualitative research
People on my qualitative methods training courses often ask me how they can demonstrate the value of qualitative research when it appears to be so subjective or anecdotal, small scale or not generalisable. Well I have many and varied answers to this, but in this blog post I will focus on just a few. I…
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Continue reading →: Qualitative research: producing understandings and insights rather than ‘findings’
The outcome of qualitative research would be better understood in terms of insights, understandings, and critical analyses, rather than findings.
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Continue reading →: What is the value of an anecdote?
Last week, at the end of a long day training in the art of qualitative interviewing, one of the course participants asked me: ‘but how can we show it is not just all anecdotal?’. I felt frustrated, to say the least, but I must have failed somewhere in my explanations…
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Continue reading →: Disembodied quotes and writing qualitatively
A plea to include the people, stories, and lives in qualitative research writing, and to avoid Disembodied Quotes When I am delivering Research Methods Training, I often ask participants to please try to avoid using disembodied quotes when writing up, or presenting. I thought it was time I clarified what…
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Continue reading →: Of theories and theoretical frameworks: hold your substantive theories lightly in iterative-inductive research
Note: the take-home message is at the end!!! Some of the participants on recent courses I have taught (for the SRA and for the Essex Summer School) have got me thinking about what I mean by the term iterative-inductive: “This is a practice of doing research, informed by a sophisticated…
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I’m Karen
Welcome to my site where I will share updates about my work and insights and tips about qualitative research methods. Click on my name at the top of the page to see all my blog posts. I have over 30 years experience teaching and using qualitative methods so I have lots to share with you. Please leave comments so I know you are there.
Karen O'Reilly 