How to do qualitative research?

A beginner's guide to planning, conducting and describing your first qualitative research study

Created by: Dr Jaroslaw Kriukow
Qualitative Researcher and Educational Consultant

What Will I Learn?

• How to plan and conduct a qualitative research study!
• The difference between a research idea, research aim and research question
• What a paradigm, epistemology and ontology are
• The link between research paradigms, research questions and research methods
• Different participant recruitment techniques and know how many participants are enough in a research study
• The difference between research design, research methodology and research methods
• Different research designs, methodologies and methods
• The aims of qualitative data analysis
• Similarities and differences between different approaches to qualitative data analysis
• Inductive, deductive and abductive reasoning
• Different forms of bias and know how to address them
• How to increase validity of the findings
• The importance of piloting a research study
• What to put in the limitations, results and conclusions sections

Requirements

• No research skills or experience are required

Target audience

• Students who want to learn about qualitative research
• Professionals who want to conduct research in their workplace
• Teachers who want to have a clear resource for teaching about qualitative research
• Anyone interested in qualitative research