Big Qual

Susie Weller is Senior Research Fellow in the Clinical Ethics, Law and Society (CELS) research group and a Fellow of the Centre for Personalised Medicine, University of Oxford, UK. She is also a Fellow of the National Centre for Research Methods, UK. Susie is a keen methodologist specialising in the use of qualitative methodologies, particularly creative, participatory and longitudinal approaches, as well as, qualitative secondary analysis. Throughout her career, she has worked at the interface between theoretical advances in family and youth research, and applied research that has policy and practice relevance.Emma Davidson is Lecturer in Social Policy and Qualitative Research Methods at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Emma has written widely on qualitative research methods, research ethics and qualitative longitudinal approaches. Her work is largely focused on collaborative and creative approaches to researching with, and for, children and young people. Emma is co-founder of the Binks Hub, a network dedicated to co-production and creative methods, and is co-director at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships.Rosalind Edwards is Professor of Sociology and a Fellow of the National Centre for Research Methods at the University of Southampton, UK. Rosalind has researched and published widely on qualitative longitudinal research methods, and is a founding editor of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology.Lynn Jamieson is Professor of the Sociology of Families and Relationships at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is known for her research on intimacy, identity and social change and has researched a wide range of topics within the field of families and relationships. Lynn was the President of the British Sociological Association and is co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan series, Families and IntimateLife and Associate Editor of the Policy Press journal, Families Relationships and Societies.

• PART I: FROM BIG QUAL TO THE BREADTH-AND-DEPTH METHOD.- 1. The place and value of large-scale qualitative data analysis.- 2. Introducing the breadth-and-depth method.- PART II: AN ENQUIRY-LED OVERVIEW OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DATA SETS.- 3. Sourcing and searching for suitable data sets.- 4. ‘Ariel surveying’: Overviewing the data and constructing a corpus.- PART III: MOVING BETWEEN BREADTH-AND-DEPTH IN QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS.- 5. ‘Geophysical surveying’: Recursive surface ‘thematic’ mapping using data mining tools.- 6. ‘Test pit sampling’: Preliminary analysis.- 7. ‘Deep excavations’: In-depth interpretive analysis.- PART IV: REFLECTING ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF LARGE-SCALE QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS.- 8. Ethics and practice.- 9. Big qual and the future of qualitative analysis.