Could you take one theme or category within your findings and describe the analytical steps/decisions you
took within Nvivo and write it up as an example of your analytical process? You seem to have an enormous database which is very unusual for a qualitative study and you will probably need to defend that in your thesis.
Best wishes
Virginia MacNeill
Qualitative Health Services Research Fellow
Barts & the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of London
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On 11 May 2013, at 10:30, Helen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
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> my first post!!
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> I need some advice. I am doing a qualitative PhD while my supervisor is quantitative through and through. We have been clashing since day one of starting my thesis. So it’s been a really rocky road. I have completed the analysis chapters and thought they were quite robust. I have used NVivo to analyse the data. While I have discussed the relevance of this program to my research my supervisor wants me to establish an audit trail to demonstrate the analytic logic from end to end. My data base is approximately 8,000 pages (this is not a typo). Given the enormity of the data base I don’t have detailed notes of each and every step I took in using NVivo. In your own research how have you explained how qualitative software supported the analysis. Did you describe all the steps taken. If you can provide advice or direct me toward useful papers which answers this issue.
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> Thanks
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