Grounded Research
Grounded Research
Grounded Research
LINGUISTICS
Bangkok, June 2013
• 2. Grounded analysis
– Open, axial and selective coding
– Qualitative analysis tools
The need for theory
• Most empirical research, including a PhD thesis, needs to make
a theoretical contribution to academic understanding of the
chosen topic.
• The analysis says as much about the researcher as about the data
being analysed:
• “It is naïve to suppose that the qualitative data analyst can separate analysis
from interpretation, because words themselves are interpretations and are to be
interpreted.” (Cohen et al, 2007, p. 495)
Coding
• Read the data several times to: get a general sense, note down
ideas, think about organising the data, check if more data are
needed.
• 3. Bad influences
• 4. Angst
• 5. Lost boy
Identifying open codes
• When you write memos, you stop and analyze your ideas
about the codes in any - and every – way that occurs to you
during the moment.
• Warrants
• Credibility
• Dependability
• Relatability (Transferability)
• Trustworthiness
Interpretive research: ‘Warrants’
• Validity and reliability are criteria that belong more
to reporting positivistic research than to interpretive
research.