This workshop introduces a simple and practical framework that helps address one some the key challenges in qualitative analysis:

How can I be reflexive without over-doing the navel-gazing and losing focus on the research?

How can I balance listening to the data and what people have to say (grounded aspects) with what past research and my theoretical framework tell me I should be looking for (a priori aspects)?

How can I achieve the lovely-sounding but elusive feature of progressive focusing in my analysis?

The framework upon which this workshop is based has been used by hundreds of researchers in many disciplines, and can help regain control over unruly analysis, re-start when you’re stalled – while also allowing for playfulness and emergence. It sets us up nicely for tales of the unexpected – a key theme in our workshop series in 2024.

This is the 2nd workshop in the Qualitative Data Analysis series for 2024, led by Dr Nick Hopwood and Dr Erin Turbitt. It will be held both online and in-person, and it may be recorded.

If you are interested in further workshops in the series, check out these upcoming sessions:

Thematic analysis: Big Q and little q - 27 February 2024
Me, the data, and theory - 26 March 2024
Working with theory - 14 May 2024
Theme TBA - Guest speaker - 11 June 2024
Keeping the whole person in view: Challenges for qualitative analysis - 9 July 2024
Using AI to do qualitative analysis - 13 August 2024
Demystifying action research - 10 September 2024
Post-qualitative analysis- 8 October 2024

This is a UTS Aspire event. UTS Aspire is a program of pan-university research development opportunities led by the Research Capability and Development Team.

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