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A Research Handbook for Patient and Public Involvement Researchers Chapter 7: Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods Helen Brooks, Penny Bee and Anne Rogers Chapter overview The term ‘qualitative research’ encompasses a wide range of different methods. What underpins these is a shared aim of understanding the meaning people attribute to experiences in their lives. It has been defined as an ‘interpretive approach concerned with understanding the meanings which people attach to actions, decisions, beliefs, values within their social world’ (Ritchie and
Chapter 8: Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis Helen Brooks, Penny Bee and Anne Rogers Chapter overview Qualitative data includes a range of textual (e.g. transcripts of interviews and focus groups) and visual (photographic and video) data. During qualitative analysis researchers make sense of this data gathered from research. Analysing the data by looking for common themes (known as thematic analysis) is one of the most common ways in which to do this and involves examining and recording patterns within the data relating to a specific research question
5 The influence of ethnomethodology on qualitative research methods As I indicated in earlier chapters, ethnomethodology arose, in large part, from Garfinkel’s concern with some fundamental methodological problems facing social science. It should not be surprising, then, that one of the fields where his work has had the greatest impact has been that of research methodology. Yet, Garfinkel himself has written very little that could be classified as falling under this heading. In the 1960s and 1970s, many sociologists – and researchers in other areas – had their
to enter, and which non-citizens must leave, its territory. I suggest that these acts, and the sizeable public support they have sometimes received, rather than gestures of hospitality or acts of hostility, mark the European response to irregularised migration in the past six or so years as qualitatively new. Acknowledgements This article extends ideas first developed in short essays published in the online magazine Inside Story ( Neumann, 2018 , 2019 ). I thank Inside Story ’s editor Peter Browne for encouraging me to write about Seebrücke and Carola
reflection and deliberation when preparing for project closure. These questions provide a highly practical guide, illustrated through a concrete case study, for project teams as they embark on a difficult and potentially fraught phase of a humanitarian project’s lifecycle. The final contribution to the special section comes in the form of a field report. Jake Leyland, Budhaditya Bhattacharya and Sandrine Tiller explore a darker side of qualitative health data in
Numerous factors – some blatant and some subtle – put pressure on the independent assessment and information collection of famine or near-famine emergencies, particularly in conflict crises. Some are technical, related to data quality, the timing of data collection, the lack of data sharing protocols and the limited ability to utilise qualitative data. Some are related to resources and the use of analyses as ‘report cards’ on humanitarian response. But
qualitative health data about community perceptions of well-being and disease, and health services in multiple contexts where MSF works. At present the MSF Listen user base is constituted solely of MSF staff. The platform allows users to upload feedback from communities and patients that is gathered through standard community engagement initiatives pertaining to MSF contexts. The idea is to incorporate this feedback into operational decision-making processes so that MSF operations
accounted for 27.1 per cent of all study participants, Torit represented 18.1 per cent, Malualkon represented 17.6 per cent, Bor represented 18.6 per cent, Kapoeta represented 16.9 per cent and Juba represented 1.7 per cent. For surveys, households were randomly sampled while walking through communities, with one participant from every second house selected. The questionnaire was administered to a household member over the age of 15, present in the household at the time of the survey. For the qualitative data collection, purposive and convenience sampling was used to
, the researchers agreed to utilise participatory action research ( McIntyre, 2007 ; Kemmis et al. , 2013 ), a community-centred methodological approach that aims to produce applied research while the implementing organisation is adjusting its activities in response to the learning. The study, which was designed to be qualitative, was scheduled to begin in Nigeria in the summer of 2020; however, the global pandemic led to a few adjustments in timeframe and data-collection processes (described below). Given that the research focuses on the activities of peer
. Kurasawa , F. ( 2015 ), ‘ How Does Humanitarian Visuality Work? A Conceptual Toolkit for a Sociology of Iconic Suffering ’, Sociologica , 9 : 1 , 1 – 59 . Lenette , C. ( 2016 ), ‘ Writing with Light: An Iconographic-Iconologic Approach to Refugee Photography ’, Forum: Qualitative Social