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Office of Research Development
Facilitator: Professor Louise Vincent (M.Phil. D.Phil. Oxon) is a qualitative research methodologist with a particular passion for narrative research. She works as a research capacity development consultant for a number of universities – assisting academic staff and masters and doctoral students with a range of research endeavours, including proposal writing, writing for publication, qualitative data generation methods, qualitative data analysis methods, qualitative analysis software, transcription, literature reviewing and the use of theory in qualitative data interpretation.
Target Group: Masters and Doctoral Candidates
Background: Thematic analysis is often poorly executed by qualitative researchers. Themes are not buckets for dumping data into. Themes do not ‘emerge’. Rather, they are the outcome of detailed processes of working with the data to enable us to tell a unified, conceptually rich story about the data. Themes are ‘central organizing concepts’. But where do they come from and how can we develop them in a way that is rigorous, systematic and transparent?
In this workshop participants have the opportunity to work with a qualitative data sample in order to develop themes as an outcome of analyzing the data. The workshop also deals with common pitfalls of thematic analysis and how to avoid them.
This workshop is funded by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) through the University Capacity Development Grant (UCDG)
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