Postgraduate Course: Qualitative Methodologies in Psychological Research (PSYL11072)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course provides a conceptual and practical introduction to some core qualitative methodologies used in Psychology, including conversation analysis, discursive psychology, and interpretative phenomenological analysis. It presents the rationale for the various qualitative approaches, provides students with the practical and analytic skills required for conducting their own qualitative research, and engages them in current debates regarding ethics, natural versus contrived data, generalisation, and the application of qualitative research. The course includes lectures, practical work and tutorial discussion and is supported by an online resource for analytic work.
Feedback Events:
The course is part lecture, part practical tutorials, including data sessions and design exercises, all of which will provide feedback opportunities |
| Course description |
Schedule of lectures:
Lecture 1: Introduction to Qualitative Research: what, why, and asking qualitative questions
Lecture 2: Collecting Qualitative Data
Tutorial 1: Designing a Qualitative study
Lecture 3: Analysing Talk and Interaction 1: the principles
Lecture 4: Analysing Talk and Interaction 2: initial stages
Tutorial 2: Data analysis session
Lecture 5: Analysing Talk and Interaction 3: Interview talk
Lecture 6: Analysing Talk and Interaction 4: Organising and integrating
Tutorial 3: Evaluating analysis
Lecture 7: Questions, answers and thorny issues
Lecture 8: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis 1
Tutorial 4: Phenomenological Interviewing
Lecture 9: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis 2
Lecture 10: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis 3
Tutorial 5: Comparing approaches: a Q&A session with the course lecturers.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 10,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
87 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Practical portfolio comprising several short assignments; each question to be answered and submitted separately.
Assignment Deadline: Thursday 22nd January 2015, 12 noon
Assignment Return Date: 13th February 2015 |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should:
¿ understand the rationale underlying qualitative methodologies, and appreciate the use of various means of collecting qualitative data, and related conceptual issues;
¿ be able to design and conduct their own qualitative research project;
¿ have a basic practical understanding of how to do discursive psychology, conversation analysis, and discourse analysis;
¿ understand the underlying rationale and process of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).
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Reading List
Antaki, C., Billig, M. Edwards, D. & Potter, J. (2003). Discourse analysis means doing analysis: A critique of six analytical shortcomings, Discourse Analysis on-Line, 1(1).
Bowker, & Tuffin, K. (2004). Using the online medium for discursive research about people with disabilities. Social Science Computer Review, 22, 228-241.
Forrester, M. (2010). Doing Qualitative Research in Psychology: A Practical Guide. London: Sage.
Hutchby, I. & Wooffitt, R. (2008). Conversation Analysis. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Potter, J. & Hepburn, A. (2005). Qualitative interviews in psychology: problems and possibilities, Qualitative Research in Psychology, 2, 281-307.
Willig, C. (2008). Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology: Adventures in theory and method, 2nd edn.. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Willig, C. & Stainton-Rogers, W. (2008). The SAGE handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology. London: Sage. See chapters on conversation analysis (Wilkinson & Kitzinger), discursive psychology (Wiggins & Potter), ethics (Brinkmann & Kvale), Evans, Elford, and D. Wiggins (using the internet).
Smith, J.S., Flowers, P. & Larkin, M. (2009). Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Theory, Method, Research. London: Sage.
D. Langdridge (2007) Phenomenological Psychology: Theory, Research and Method. Harlow: Pearson Education.
Reid, K., Flowers, P. and Larkin, M. (2005). Exploring Lived Experience, The Psychologist, 18(1), 20-23. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students will gain significant research and analytic skills as well as an appreciation of qualitative research and methodologies. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sue Widdicombe
Tel: (0131 6)50 3411
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Course secretary | Miss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
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