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:
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.
Becker, H.S. (1998) Tricks of the Trade: How to think about your research while you’re doing it, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
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.)
Strauss, A. and Corbin, J. (2015) Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and procedures for developing Grounded Theory, 4th ed., London: Sage. Or see 3rd edition (2008).
Flick U. (ed). 2004. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis. SAGE Publications Ltd.