Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology

Evanthia Lyons is a Professor at Kingston University London and a Social Psychologist. Her research interests include identity and social representational processes in contexts of intergroup conflict and multi-cultural societies. Adrian Coyle: My engagement with higher education began with my degree in Psychology (with Philosophy), completed at University College Dublin in 1986. In 1987 I moved to London and worked as a research assistant at what was then South Bank Polytechnic until 1989 before transferring to the NHS to work as an HIV Training Officer and Counsellor. After completing my PhD at the University of Surrey in 1991, I took up a lectureship there and have remained at Surrey ever since, fulfilling various roles, principally in relation to the Practitioner Doctorate in Psychotherapeutic and Counselling Psychology (as Research Tutor) and currently the MSc in Social Psychology (as Course Director). In recent years, I returned to academic study at the University of London, obtaining qualifications in Theology (at Birkbeck) and in the Psychology of Religion (at Heythrop College).

• Section I: Qualitative Research in Psychology: The FoundationsChapter 1: Doing Qualitative Research: Initial QuestionsChapter 2: Introduction to Qualitative Psychological ResearchChapter 3: Ethical Considerations in Qualitative ResearchSection II: Approaches to Generating or Gathering Qualitative DataChapter 4: Interviews and InterviewingChapter 5: Social Media DataChapter 6: Visual DataSection III: Approaches to Qualitative Data AnalysisChapter 7: Thematic AnalysisChapter 8: Doing Thematic AnalysisChapter 9: Interpretative Phenomenological AnalysisChapter 10: Doing Interpretative Phenomenological AnalysisChapter 11: Grounded TheoryChapter 12: Doing Grounded TheoryChapter 13: Narrative AnalysisChapter 14: Doing Narrative AnalysisChapter 15: Discourse AnalysisChapter 16: Doing Discourse AnalysisChapter 17: Analysing Qualitative Data: Comparative ReflectionsAppendicesAppendix 1, Data Set: PrefaceAppendix 2, Reporting Qualitative Research: PrefaceAppendix 2, Report 1: Choice, Awareness, Complicity and Resistance in Younger Women’s Accounts of Body Hair Removal: A Reflective Account of a Thematic Analysis StudyAppendix 2, Report 2: Making Sense of Anger: A Reflective Account of an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis StudyAppendix 2, Report 3: Critical Care Experiences and Bereavement among Families of Organ Donors: A Reflective Account of a Grounded Theory StudyAppendix 2, Report 4: The Effects of Surfing and the Natural Environment on the Well-being of Combat Veterans: A Reflective Account of a Narrative Analysis StudyAppendix 2, Report 5: Arguing about Racism in Discussion Forums about Gypsies: A Reflective Account of a Discourse Analysis Study