- Department: Environment and Geography
- Module co-ordinator: Dr. Katherine Brookfield
- Credit value: 10 credits
- Credit level: C
- Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
- See module specification for other years: 2021-22
The module aims to develop students’ knowledge and skills in qualitative research, including the design, collection and analysis using a number of qualitative methods.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Spring Term 2022-23 |
The module aims to develop students’ knowledge and skills in qualitative research. The module will contribute towards the development of a critical appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of a range of research methods. Students will gain useful experience of doing qualitative research and will be able to explore some of the key issues in designing and conducting qualitative research including defining research questions, collection and analysis of qualitative data and identifying appropriate methods to answer the research questions.
At the end of this module the student would have gained knowledge as follows:
Subject content:
Academic and graduate skills:
Lectures and practice sessions, will introduce students to some of the elementary issues involved in conducting qualitative research. The contents of the lectures for example will contrast the scientific method to research with qualitative methodologies, including ways of collecting and analysing data.
Contents of the module include:
Research Process
Research questions, research proposal, sampling (non-probability), and, research ethics
Qualitative Data Collection Tools
Secondary data, case research, interview studies, focus groups, action research, ethnography, multi-modal, and participatory processes.
Qualitative Analysis
Thematic, Discourse, Content Analysis (qualitative and quantitative), narrative analyses, documentary (textual) analysis, Bricolage, CAQDAS.
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework Mini Qual Report |
N/A | 100 |
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Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework Mini Qual Report |
N/A | 100 |
Continuous feedback will be made available to the students during the lectures/practicals and field work session.
Bryman, A .(2004, 2008, 2012) Social Research Methods, Oxford University Press
Additional reading material will be provided throughout the module, linked to the appropriate lectures on the VLE.