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PhD SeminarQualitative Research
Dr Janice Whatley
September 2014
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Agenda Part 1
Introducing Qualitative Research Part 2
Methods for Qualitative Research Part 3
Analysing and Presenting Qualitative Research
At the end of this seminar, you will have material to enable you to write an appropriate research methods chapter.
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Something about me
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Academic in the Computing and Information Systems fields
Carried out research in educational technology
Completed my PhD a few years ago Research interests include
Educational Technology Human Factors Multimedia Team Working
Editor of an academic journal - IJELLO
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What is Research Diligent and systematic inquiry or investigatio
n into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.
A particular instance or piece of research. To make researches, investigate carefully. To make an extensive investigation into. Synonyms for the word:
study, inquire, examine, scrutinise
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Types of Research 'pure research'. This approach is undertaken in order
to contribute to abstract, theoretical understanding; 'instrumentalist research'. An alternative motivation
is to contribute to understanding in order to be able to more effectively act or to 'design interventions' into the environment. Two sub-categories of instrumentalist research need to be distinguished: 'applied research'. This commences with a
technology (an artefact, a technique, or both) and uses it in an experimental fashion to intervene into personal, organisational or social processes; and
'problem-oriented research'. This begins with a problem. It experiments with existing technologies and/or prototypes new ones, in an effort to devise a solution (e.g.Clarke, 2000).
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A typical Research Methods chapter Identify philosophical stance Design the research instrument Define methods of data collection Choose appropriate modes of analysis
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Research Onion (Saunders, 2003)
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Alternative models of research stages
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Crotty (2007) narrowed them down to be: Epistemology; Theoretical perspective; Methodology; Methods.
Miles and Huberman (1994) Identify philosophical stance Design the research instrument Define methods of data collection Choose appropriate modes of analysis
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Qualitative Research
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Qualitative research focuses on text rather than numbers
Text is what people say, written and verbal Enables researchers to explain and
understand social and cultural phenomena
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Three little words
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What? Why? How?
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Talking about your work Can you give me in 1 sentence (or 2) what
your thesis is all about. If you can’t explain your work in this way, you
will not be able to defend it in the Viva.
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