Qualitative Secondary Analysis

Kahryn Hughes is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds. Her current roles include as the Director of the Timescapes Archive, Senior Fellow of National Centre for Research Methods, and Co-Lead of the Horizons Network on Time. Kahryn has expertise in qualitative longitudinal methods and is an international leader in developing methods of Qualitative Secondary Analysis. Her research has focused on lifecourse and intergenerational trajectories of people through place-based poverty, with an especial focus on their family relationships. A recent publication Her methodological expertise has informed a recent study which has sought to capture young peoples’ e-cigarette use longitudinally through the multiple substance landscapes that confront young people in the UK. She is currently developing research exploring appropriate strategies for researching with transient families in the UK.Anna Tarrant is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln, where she has established the Centre for Innovation in Fatherhood and Family Research (CIFFR) and has led a Future Leaders Fellowship study called Following Young Fathers Further. Anna has pioneered research with marginalised men and communities that has explored the dynamic and complex relationship between fathering, poverty, and social welfare. This has led to her latest focus on father-inclusion, a sensitising concept designed to guide systems change and alternative service design across the breadth of sectors whose remit is to engage and support families. She has also refined innovative methodologies including qualitative secondary analysis and longitudinal co-creation to foster evidence-based transformations through research processes.

′Practical, sensible and timely guide, inspiring teachers, researchers and students to work creatively with the wealth of archived qualitative data now freely available to us′.Rachel Thomson, Professor of Childhood and Youth Studies, University of Sussex

• PART I: CHANGING DATA LANDSCAPES AND QUALITATIVE SECONDARY ANALYSISChapter 1: An Introduction to Qualitative Secondary Analysis – Kahryn Hughes and Anna TarrantChapter 2: Qualitative Secondary Analysis: Working Across Datasets – Sarah IrwinChapter 3: The Ethics of Qualitative Secondary Analysis – Kahryn Hughes and Anna TarrantPART II BUILDING QUALITATIVE SECONDARY ANALYSIS INTO RESEARCH AND TEACHINGChapter 4: Documents of Lives and Times: Revisiting Qualitative Data through Time – Bren NealeChapter 5: Search Strategies: Analytic Searching Across Multiple Datasets and Within Combined Sources – Rosalind Edwards, Susie Weller, Lynn Jamieson and Emma DavidsonChapter 6: Collective Qualitative Secondary Analysis and Data Sharing: Strategies, Insights and Challenges – Anna Tarrant and Kahryn HughesChapter 7: Qualitative Secondary Analysis in Teaching – Maureen HaakerPART III METHODS OF QUALITATIVE SECONDARY ANALYSIS WITH NON-INTERVIEW DATAChapter 8: Looking Back, Looking Forward: Working with Archived Oral History Interviews – Joanna BornatChapter 9: Doing Qualitative Secondary Analysis: Revisiting Young People’s Imagined Futures in Ray Pahl’s Sheppey Studies – Dawn Lyon and Graham CrowChapter 10: Imagination and the Analytical Potential of Working with Non-Interview or Unusual Data – John Goodwin and Henrietta O’ConnorChapter 11: Using Quantitative Data in Qualitative Secondary Analysis – Jane Gray and Ruth Geraghty