Courses :: Module, INNOVATION IN QUALITATIVE SOCIAL RESEARCH

	Overview
	This course offers students a theoretical and practical guide to a broad range of innovative qualitative research methods. It locates these methods within an interpretivist tradition, which explores the meanings people attach to human behaviour and the subject�s perspective. The course explores human behaviour through methods such as participant observation, interviewing and focus groups, discourse analysis and visual methods. The course offers practical experience to students in these methods as well as on analysis and writing of qualitative research. Students should be able to understand the epistemological foundations behind qualitative research, assess which qualitative methods are the most appropriate to answer particular research questions, demonstrate a knowledge of various qualitative research methods, demonstrate a competence in MAXQDA and understand how qualitative data is generated, analysed and written up.

Overview

This course offers students a theoretical and practical guide to a broad range of innovative qualitative research methods. It locates these methods within an interpretivist tradition, which explores the meanings people attach to human behaviour and the subject�s perspective. The course explores human behaviour through methods such as participant observation, interviewing and focus groups, discourse analysis and visual methods. The course offers practical experience to students in these methods as well as on analysis and writing of qualitative research. Students should be able to understand the epistemological foundations behind qualitative research, assess which qualitative methods are the most appropriate to answer particular research questions, demonstrate a knowledge of various qualitative research methods, demonstrate a competence in MAXQDA and understand how qualitative data is generated, analysed and written up.

	Learning Outcomes
	On successful completion of the module, students should be able to: Identify and to work within Interpretive and phenomenological approaches Execute formal, comparative, mixed and interdisciplinary methodologies Utilise qualitative secondary analysis software incorporating Big Data approaches Extract data from qualitative interviews and focus groups and from other textual and narrative sources Work with two different coding programmes and use the software to do analysis Assess and utilise a variety of qualitative research strategies including ethnography and Participatory Action Research.

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INNOVATION IN QUALITATIVE SOCIAL RESEARCH