Thank you so much, everyone. You have definitely given me some food for thought. I am thinking that IPA might be the way to go with my research.
Kind Regards,
Nicola Davies,
BSc; MSc Comm.; PhD Researcher
Researcher at the University of Oxford
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From: Research of postgraduate psychologists. on behalf of Denham Phipps
Sent: Sat 7/12/2008 22:49
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Subject: Re: Analysing Interview Data
Hi Nicola
I suppose the short answer is...it depends on what you want to get from
the data. If what you're after is the frequency with which particular
predefined themes occur in the data then yes, content analysis. If you're
intending to take a more inductive approach - you want to see what themes
can be identified in the data - then you'd probably want something along
the lines of codebook/template analysis, interpretative phenomenological
analysis (IPA) or grounded theory. Alternatively, you might be interested
in examining the interviewee's account as a social behaviour in its own
right - in which case, you'd be looking at discourse analysis or
conversation analysis.
The following sources (especially the first two) should help you to work
out what method's best for your study:
Willig, C (2001). Introducing qualitative research in psychology:
Adventures in theory and method. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Robson, C. (2002) Real World Research: A resource for social-scientists
and practitioner-researchers. 2 nd Edn. Oxford: Blackwell.
Miles, M. B., & Huberman, A.M. (1994). Qualitative Data Analysis, 2nd ed.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
King, N. What is template analysis?
http://www.hud.ac.uk/hhs/research/template_analysis/whatis.htm
Hope this helps. Happy to chat more offline if you want to.
Denham
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