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How to evaluate qualitative research
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Continue reading →: How to evaluate qualitative researchPeople 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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Continue reading →: Essex Summer School inspires me again!
I’ve been teaching Ethnography at the Essex Summer School the past two weeks. It has been amazing. The participants have worked incredibly hard and have produced some wonderful research projects. I’m trying to think what it is about the summer school that is so warm and creative and makes the…
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Continue reading →: Ethnographic Methods or Ethnography? The answer is in the eye of the beholder
Whenever I teach ethnographic methods someone asks me a question along the lines of: “I am not sure if I am doing a proper ethnography”. Or “I am not doing a full ethnography “.What they mean is that they are not going to spend a very long time doing…
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Continue reading →: The SRA in Edinburgh
I spent a really lovely few days in Edinburgh recently providing training for The SRA. The courses were Designing Qualitative Research; Qualitative Interviewing; Conducting Focus Groups. All three courses were full up, with waiting lists, and the participants were fantastic – so much expertise and enthusiasm in one room! Some…
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The British on the Costa del Sol Twenty Years on
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Continue reading →: The British on the Costa del Sol Twenty Years onI have published two new papers about British in Spain, and they are free to access! Indeed, readers may enjoy the entire special issue, all about British and Swedish living in Spain. Open Access 2017. O’Reilly, K. The British on the Costa Del Sol Twenty Years On: A story of…
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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.
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