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For questions about qualitative (non-numerical) research: observation, interviews, and such.
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What are some reputable software tools I can use to transcribe participants' interview recordings offline?
I am a PhD student about to submit an IRB for my first qualitative research which involves audio recordings of participants' interviews. The recordings will have to be transcribed prior to the ...
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Is reporting null findings in an exploratory quantitative research study advisable?
I have been conducting an exploratory research study and am beginning to analyze the data for it. This study is quantative and is not predominantly hypothesis-driven, however there are a few questions ...
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How to assess whether it is imposter syndrome or actual low quality work during Ph.D.?
I am a Ph.D. student and my field is pure maths (analysis). It has been 33 months since I enrolled in Ph.D. I have produced a few papers as well. However, serious doubts have been rising in my mind ...
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Finding data for primary criminological research - help! [closed]
I'm a PhD student in Criminology and this will be my first experience of undertaking a substantial independent research project. I'm in the process of designing my project, but the problem is that I ...
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What is the difference between Survey, SMS, and SLR
I wonder if there is actual difference among a survey, systematic mapping study, and a systematic literature review? All of them involve three main phases: specifying research questions and search ...
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Advice with finding and contacting participants for studying crime (interview-based research with ex-offenders) [closed]
I'd like to conduct a study on street gangs in the 1960s-1980s as part of my PG dissertation. Ideally, I'd like to conduct this as an interview-based study (like an oral history/criminology project) ...
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Best practices in sharing qualitative data such as interview transcripts alongside a paper publication?
In the past I have shared quantitative datasets by uploading them to data repositories (like Zenodo) as CSV-files or similar formats.
But I lack experience with regards to qualitative data such as ...
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What is the name of the interviewing/research technique where one sample generates questions for the next?
I'm aware of imagining there is a technique in qualitative research where responses made in one interview are explicitly used to provide prompts/new questions in subsequent interviews.
Does this have ...
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Improving motivation in qualitative research motivation [closed]
My PhD project has evolved into a very qualitative methodology and approach. As my training and background is very positivist and focused on outcomes, I am really struggling with this shift into a ...
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Reason for less or almost no research papers from PhD students in India [closed]
It is evident from the stats of some reputed journals and conferences that Ph.D. students from India are getting hard to publish at least some research papers while other countries are publishing many ...
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Getting a coder to perform triangulation
I am a PhD student currently working on a qualitative study. I have analysed my data and few reviewers have advised me to get another coder to code my data.
My data include video recording of about ...
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Is it ethical to use data you overheard in a conversation?
I do research on particular elites of a particular society and rely heavily on interview data. In one fortuitous dinner, at the table behind me sat three people who are exactly the people I wanted to ...
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