Analysing qualitative data Quantitative analysis of qualitative data; Qualitative content analysis; Qualitative analysis of qualitative data; Doing qualitative research; Considerations for a qualitative project; Data analysis; Procedures in major approaches (grounded theory, interpretive phenomenological analysis, discourse analysis);Writing up the report; Reliability and validity – how are qualitative studies evaluated?

This chapter is a practical introduction to the methods employed by qualitative researchers for collecting, analysing and reporting their data, as compared with the more theoretical approach of Chapter 10. It is in the nature of qualitative research that this usually cannot be done without embedding the methodology in the epistemological arguments (about the nature of knowledge and truth) that the proponents and users of those methods have espoused. Hence this chapter also revisits and expands upon those positions.