Handling Qualitative Data
A Practical Guide
Detailed sections cover: the processes of making, meeting, sorting, coding, documenting, and exploring qualitative data; how to see a study as a whole and write it, and making and justifying claims. Each chapter smoothly integrates software use with discussion of the main challenges that software users are likely to encounter. Novice researchers who use this book will be able to achieve valid and useful outcomes from qualitative analysis, and ensure they do justice to their data.
As a PhD student and lecturer who supervises undergraduate and graduate theses this text is a key resource. Richards provides excellent and easily understandable insights, these are often supported with diagrams which I often share with research students as a way of developing their understanding of the whole research process. The text also acts as an excellent stimuli for the more intermediate level researcher who may be working through minor issues whilst dealing with their data.
An invaluable resource for students that addresses critical aspects of qualitative analysis
very well structured, contents and structure transparent 'at a glimpse'
An excellently reassuring guide to students undertaking a research project / dissertation
Offers a gentle intro to students interested in developing their research project further. A little too advanced for my under grads.
This is an excellent book and I would particularly recommend it to students who are new to research. The diagrams at the front of each chapter enable the reader to track their progress in handling qualitative data.
Students often struggle to carry out robust qualitative research. This book provides very good advice not just about how to collect the data but also how to analyse and interpret it.
Lyn Richards fills a gap in research literature with this book. It is a practical guide for beginner researchers on how to work with, makes sense of and give 'voice' to collected data
This is good general, all around text covering different methods and techniques in handling qualitative data - easy to follow and useful as a reference text.
This book provides a thorough guide to managing qualitative data in an accessible and understandable format
