This second year module builds on methods teaching in year 1, and consolidates students’ skills and knowledge of qualitative research. The module will...

This second year module builds on methods teaching in year 1, and consolidates students’ skills and knowledge of qualitative research. The module will provide students with the ability to apply different approaches to data collection, generation and analysis. Through the module the students will learn about interpretation and presentation of qualitative data. They will learn to exercise reflexivity, develop an ability to interrogate the research process and findings, and to critically appraise rigour in qualitative research. Topics covered include interviewing, ethnography, visual methods, narrative research, ethical challenges in research, and presentation of research insights. The module also introduces students to different approaches to the analysis of qualitative data including content, thematic, IPA, discourse and narrative approaches.

This module aims to enable a deeper understanding of qualitative approaches and qualitative methods in the social sciences introduced in Term 1. Students will...

This module aims to enable a deeper understanding of qualitative approaches and qualitative methods in the social sciences introduced in Term 1. Students will review a selection of approaches to qualitative research design, data collection/generation and analysis with the aim of enabling an appreciation of the challenges of triangulation within qualitative methods and between qualitative and quantitative methods.
Learning in this module will provide students with skills needed to undertake advanced qualitative analysis and by the end of the module students should be able to analyse critically the use of different qualitative methodologies in social research and feel comfortable with carrying out this type of research on their own.
Advanced themes will vary year to year but indicative areas include: Narrative Research; Ethnography, Visual and other sensory methods; Discourse and Conversational analysis; Social media research. Each year the module will cover two themes.