qualitative research: for life scientists rachel orritt [email protected]
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Paradigms
Concepts
What’s Possible
Arguments Against
Qualitative Research:
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ParadigmsPositivism
Positivism Reality
Constructivism
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Things to get your head aroundPositivism
Top Down (Deductive)
Bottom-Up (Inductive)
Researchers aren’t machines!
http://composer99.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/national-posts-war-on-science-boogeymen.html
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What’s Possible?
Thematic AnalysisCase Studies
Grounded TheoryHypothesis Generation
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Arguments AgainstPositivism
You can’t generalise outside your data
Time consuming
Difficult to break into
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Mixed MethodsPositivism
Constructivism ?
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Positivism
Quantitative Reality
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ConclusionsPositivism
Qualitative methods are useful outside of arts, humanities and social sciences
They can add another dimension to quantitative methods, especially if you are working on a project that has a practical application.
There’s no such thing as overuse of a metaphor ( )