Required reading:
- Rapley, T. (2011) ‘Some pragmatics of data analysis’, in D. Silverman (ed.) Qualitative Research, 3rd edition, London: Sage, pp. 273-290.
- Download from Moodle
- Mason, J. (2002) Qualitative Researching, 2nd edition, London: Sage. Read chapter 8, ‘Organizing and indexing qualitative data’, pp. 147-172, and chapter 9, ‘Making convincing arguments with qualitative data’, pp. 173-204.
Further reading:
Avis, M (2005) Is there an epistemology for qualitative research? In Holloway, I (ed) Qualitative Research in Health Care. Milton Keynes: Open University Press. Available at:https://lsms.ac/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/11_.pdf#page=22. (This book offers a helpful guide to different approaches to qualitative inquiry).
Coffey, A. and Atkinson, P. (1996) Making Sense of Qualitative Data Analysis: Complementary research strategies, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Ritchie, J. and Lewis, J. (2003) Qualitative Research Practice, London: Sage. Read chapters 8 to 10.
Miles, M.B. and Huberman, A.M. (1994) Qualitative Data Analysis: An expanded sourcebook, 2nd ed., London: Sage.
Robson, C. and McCartan, K. (2016) Real World Research: A resource for users of social research methods in applied settings, 4th ed., Chichester: Wiley. Read chapter 18, ‘The analysis and interpretation of qualitative data’, pp. 459-486, or equivalent chapter in an earlier edition.
Silverman, D. (2013) Doing Qualitative Research, 4th ed., London: Sage. (See part 3.)
Charmaz, K. (2012). The power and potential of grounded theory. Medical sociology online, 6(3), 2-15. Available at: https://www.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Charmaz-2012.pdf
Flick U. (ed). 2004. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis. SAGE Publications Ltd.