About this event
This research training is:
- Engaging, hands-on, and interactive
- Designed to build researchers knowledge, skills and confidence to deepen your understanding of qualitative research and successfully conduct thematic analysis
- Based on first hand qualitative research and education experience and has been delivered extensively in Australia and internationally
- Interdisciplinary and suitable for both experienced researchers and those new to qualitative research
Real world and practical:
- This training draws on real-world examples from qualitative research projects, using thematic analysis, and other qualitative methodologies that the facilitator has undertaken; as well as practical examples to work through to help you conduct your own rigorous research.
- Participants each receive a resource pack full of activities we work through during the training.
Day 1 enables participants to:
- Have a strong understanding of the core aspects of qualitative research
- Explore and differentiate between essentialist, contextualist, and constructionist approaches to thematic analysis
- Be guided through each individual stage of thematic analysis via expertly crafted and supported activities
- Gain the skills and confidence to successfully complete a research project using thematic analysis
Day 1 participants receive:
- Pre-training material: Preparatory content to participants two weeks before training
- One day of interactive face-to-face training
- Certificate of Attendance
Day 2 enables participants to:
- Apply thematic analysis across essentialist, contextualist, and constructionist theoretical approaches
- Explore the importance of subjectivity and reflexivity in qualitative research
- Have a strong grounding in the distinctions between the three schools of thematic analysis (reflexive, codebook and coding reliability)
- Explore the relationship between thematic analysis and other qualitative approaches (e.g., discourse analysis, grounded theory interpretative phenomenological analysis)
- Use thematic analysis with a range of data types (e.g. images, webpages)
Day 1 & Day 2 participants receive:
- Pre-training material: Preparatory content to participants two weeks before training
- Two days of interactive face-to-face training
- Certificate of Participation
Feedback from previous workshop participants:
- Excellent presentation, very helpful for current research practice. Interactive, paring work encouraged, learning and sharing of experience.
- Hugely helpful in thinking about my own methodology (grounded theory), different epistemologies and how they apply to real life.
- Very interactive and interesting activities throughout, great examples for own research.
- Brilliant workshop and very competent and articulate lecturer.
- Claire has great energy and passion, pulls you in, great delivery.
- The practicality of this session was fantastic. Thank you Claire!
- Oh my God, I love listening to a knowledgeable researcher who can communicate clearly and teaches well, thank you Claire.
- Claire presented everything in a very approachable and interesting way. Amazing workshop.
