A Guide to Abductive Thematic Analysis

Thematic analysis is an increasingly popular method for analysing qualitative data within the social sciences. Current guides conducting thematic promote method’s broad flexibility across research designs, which has resulted in criticism that lacks rigour and structure necessary credible academic research. Recognizing challenges faced by scholars, I developed present 8-step prescriptive approach specific to abductive methodologies incorporating many concepts from seminal works analysis, importantly maintaining balance of theorising with empirical data, core