Analysing Qualitative Data: More Than ‘Identifying Themes’
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Reliance on the identification of themes as the goal of analysis is endemic in qualitative research. Often, in funding proposals, there will be a lengthy description of how qualitative data are going to be gathered, but the only thing said about how these data are going to be managed or analysed is that ‘themes will be identified in the data’. Similarly, writers of journal articles often simply identify and discuss four or five ‘themes’ as their analysis of the qualitative data in the study, with no attempt to link those themes into a more comprehensive model of what they have found.
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