Introducing Qualitative Data Analysis (P03128)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : SPS-P-P03128

The course will cover the methodological and analytical issues relating to research practice.

• Good practice in Qualitative Research - transcription issues and managing data.
• Preliminaries of data analysis – making sense of your data and managing data
• Applying, sorting and constructing codes, categories and themes
• Building your analysis – Bottom-up and top-down analysis

Each session will have a dual emphasis on the theoretical and practical.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not accepting further student enrolments.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of Social and Political Science), (School of Social and Political Science, Schedule J)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : To be arranged/Unknown

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 5 weeks

? Additional Class Information : course cancelled for 2008/09

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The course would connect with existing core courses to provide students with an overview of qualitative data preparation, data management and data analysis techniques. The course will be a practical guide to qualitative data analysis.

- To provide an introduction to some of the theoretical and methodological issues relating to good qualitative research practice.
- To explore the relationship between the way in which data is generated and different approaches to analysing qualitative data
- To provide examples of analysis from initial coding through to the presentation of findings