Thematic analysis in my experience is one of the most popular techniques that students use in their dissertations, but there has been little written about methodological foundations and the actual process and procedures of this kind of analysis. I really think that this is the book that was very much needed. Overall the book is very good and I would definitely recommend it to students on Dissertation Writing modules and/or PG Research Methods. The section on writing up findings is really useful and I think can be used as a teaching material even if one is not using thematic analysis.
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I find the description interesting and there are a couple of very useful tables and classifications of how to do it which no doubt will be useful for students. The second section is about quantifying qualitative findings – and integrating quantitative and qualitative data.
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The book also incorporates examples from NVivo which is a very popular software with many institutions at the moment.
I think this book fills this gap very well and provides the description of actual analytical techniques to make the process more structured and rigorous. "This book does a wonderful job of explaining how important thematic analysis is for producing good research, and it uses rich and detailed examples to do it."-Matthew Hartley, University of Pennsylvania "This book presents what all of the books I've tried to use in the past have failed to present-how to analyze qualitative data."-Catherine C. Chapters follow the sequence of activities in the analysis process and also include discussions of mixed methods, choosing the most appropriate software, and how to write up and present the results. The authors introduce and outline applied thematic analysis, an inductive approach that draws on established and innovative theme-based techniques suited to the applied research context. Their book describes how to analyze qualitative data in a systematic and rigorous way. This step-by-step guide draws on the authors' many years of experience carrying out qualitative research and conducting trainings on the subject. After collecting qualitative data from in-depth interviews, focus groups, or field observations, students and researchers often struggle to make sense of it.