Course description
Topics Covered
- Epistemological and ontological assumptions underlying qualitative research methodologies
- Identifying research questions for qualitative enquiry
- Developing a critical and reflexive approach
- Designing and planning a qualitative research project including consideration of ethical issues and research data management
- Conducting interviews, focus groups and ethnographic observation
- Approaches to the analysis of qualitative data (including open coding and the constant comparative method, discourse analysis and visual analysis)
- Using qualitative analysis software
- Critical appraisal of qualitative research papers
- Communicating findings of qualitative research
Learning
- 18 hours of lectures
- 12 hours of seminars
- 6 hours of fieldwork
- 114 hours of guided independent study
Assessment
- Critical appraisal of research paper (40%)
- Essay, 3,000 words (60%)
Start Dates
- January each year
Study Commitment: 6 full days (9.00am-4.00pm) plus additional reading
This course, when assessed, will award 15 university credits. These credits can be transferred towards other Higer Education awards including:
PGCertificate / Mres in Applied Health Research.
PGCertificate / PG Diploma or MSc in Quality and Safety in Healthcare.
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