Working with Qualitative Interview Data: Themes and Beyond
| Dates: | 29 May 2025 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Workshop |
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| Organiser: | methods@manchester |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Current University students |
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Dr Andy Balmer leads this creative data workshop for methods@manchester in collaboration with the University of Manchester's Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives.
The workshop explores how to work with qualitative data in an ‘everyday’ fashion. This approach draws on new research and features in a forthcoming book from the Morgan Centre. It places an emphasis on working with semi- and unstructured interview data but will deal in a general way with qualitative materials, too. It briefly explores themes as a standard analytical device, however, the focus will be to encourage participants to move beyond themes. Instead, it explores a ‘vital’ way of thinking about the ‘shapes’ we make with qualitative data. It will reflect on the kinds of things we might go looking for when we’re engaging with our data, and asks participants to think about the everyday ways in which they live alongside their data, and how we can use this as part of our analytical processes.
Participants can bring examples of their data along with them to discuss in the break-out groups.
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