Additional Material Related to the Book

Click on the links below to find answers to exercises in the text (see Student Resources tab for fuller details), extended versions of text boxes and tables used in the book, qualitative presentations, data and a host of other materials.

Chapter 3: Planning and designing qualitative research

• Exercise 4: Qualitative research proposal proforma (p73)

Chapter 4: Interactive data collection 1: Interviews

• Answers to exercise 1: ‘Really bad interview guide on partner relationships’ (p104)

Chapter 6: Textual data collection: surveys, stories, diaries and secondary sources

• An introduction to the vignette method See also the example data collection tool: Trans Parent Vignette (Mary Version) in the Research Material section.

Chapter 7: Preparing audio data for analysis: transcription

• Answers to exercise 2: ‘data anonymising’ (p171)

Chapter 8: Moving towards analysis

• Answers to exercise 4: ‘descriptive-interpretative continuum’ (p199)

Chapter 9: First analytic steps: familiarisation and data coding

• Extended version of Table 9.2: Coding in thematic analysis: a worked example of the early stages
• Extended version of Table 9.3: Coding in IPA: a worked example
• Extended version of Table 9.4: Examples of some extracts of data collated data for three codes
• A detailed comparison of coding in TA, GT and IPA

Chapter 10: Identifying patterns across data

• Extended version of Table 10.1: Candidate themes, showing selected associated codes

Chapter 11: Analysis and interpreting patterns across data

• Extended version of Box 11.4: Write-up of the over-arching theme ‘human nature’ and the theme ‘exercise is evil’
• Answers to exercise 4: Bad analysis (p273)

Chapter 13: Writing and communicating qualitative research

• Qualitative poster presentation evaluation form
• Qualitative oral presentation evaluation form
• Qualitative research project checklist for British undergraduate final year psychology projects
• First draft of a paragraph compared to the final version from a paper about thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2012)