23.12.21
Analysis of an
interview
Task 1. Read about
interview Analysis.
It’s important that you
properly analyze your interviews, but there is no single right way
to perform qualitative data analysis, and the method you choose
primarily depends on the actual purpose of your study. Here, we
will focus on one of the most common methods for analyzing
semi-structured interviews: thematic analysis. A thematic analysis
strives to identify patterns of themes in the interview data. One
of the advantages of thematic analysis is that it’s a flexible
method which you can use both for explorative studies, where you
don’t have a clear idea of what patterns you are searching for, as
well as for more deductive studies, where you know exactly what you
are interested in. An example of an explorative study could be
conducting interviews at a technical workplace in order to obtain
an understanding of the technicians’ everyday work lives, what
motivates them, etc. A more deductive study could be conducting
interviews at a technical workplace in order to find out how
technicians use a specific technology in order to handle
safety-critical situations.
No matter which type of study
you are doing and for what purpose, the most important thing in
your analysis is that you respect the data and try to represent
your interview as honestly as possible. When you share your results
with others, you should be transparent about everything in your
research process, from how you recruited participants to how you
performed the analysis. This will make it easier for people to
trust in the validity of your results. People who don’t agree with
your conclusion might be critical of your research results, but if
you know that you have done everything possible to represent your
participants and your research process honestly, you should have no
problem defending your results.
Steps in a Thematic
Analysis
“Analysis involves a
constant moving back and forward between the entire data set, the
coded extracts of data that you are analysing, and the analysis of
the data that you are producing.”
—Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke, Authors and qualitative
researchers in psychology
Thematic analysis describes an
iterative process as to how to go from messy data to a map of the
most important themes in the data. The
process contains six steps:
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Familiarize yourself with your
data.
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Assign preliminary codes to
your data in order to describe the
content.
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Search for patterns or themes
in your codes across the different
interviews.
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Review themes.
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Define and name themes.
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Produce your report.
Task 2. Compose an
interview.
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