Description
Book SynopsisA comprehensive guide to carrying out Qualitative Secondary Analysis (QSA) that brings together expert advice and professional insight from leading researchers who have developed innovative theories and methods of QSA.
Exploring crucial components of research and analysis—such as where to find resources, how to search within a resource, and working with both paper archives and non-textual data—each chapter offers insightful case studies, links to further reading and applied helpful hints and tips to help effectively apply these innovations to further the reader’s own research.
A must read for Social Science students, early career researchers and researchers new to the field of QSA, this text will help readers through every aspect of a research process using QSA, from application to implications.
Trade Review′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
-- Rachel Thomson
This book confirms the standing of QSA securely within the mainstream of social science methods. It provides detailed chapters based on recent research using QSA, such as longitudinal QSA , nuanced comparative analysis, and blending existing with newly generated qualitative data. Fundamental ethical challenges that arise when repurposing data (e.g., the absence of explicit consent for reuse) are reviewed, and possible ways forward proposed. Instructors in need of a clear, accessible introduction to QSA for use in a methodology course will be well satisfied.
Dr Libby Bishop is the Coordinator for International Data Infrastructures in the Data Archive at GESIS-Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences.
-- Dr Libby Bishop
Table of ContentsPART I: CHANGING DATA LANDSCAPES AND QUALITATIVE SECONDARY ANALYSIS Chapter 1: An Introduction to Qualitative Secondary Analysis – Kahryn Hughes and Anna Tarrant Chapter 2: Qualitative Secondary Analysis: Working Across Datasets – Sarah Irwin Chapter 3: The Ethics of Qualitative Secondary Analysis – Kahryn Hughes and Anna Tarrant PART II BUILDING QUALITATIVE SECONDARY ANALYSIS INTO RESEARCH AND TEACHING Chapter 4: Documents of Lives and Times: Revisiting Qualitative Data through Time – Bren Neale Chapter 5: Search Strategies: Analytic Searching Across Multiple Datasets and Within Combined Sources – Rosalind Edwards, Susie Weller, Lynn Jamieson and Emma Davidson Chapter 6: Collective Qualitative Secondary Analysis and Data Sharing: Strategies, Insights and Challenges – Anna Tarrant and Kahryn Hughes Chapter 7: Qualitative Secondary Analysis in Teaching – Maureen Haaker PART III METHODS OF QUALITATIVE SECONDARY ANALYSIS WITH NON-INTERVIEW DATA Chapter 8: Looking Back, Looking Forward: Working with Archived Oral History Interviews – Joanna Bornat Chapter 9: Doing Qualitative Secondary Analysis: Revisiting Young People’s Imagined Futures in Ray Pahl’s Sheppey Studies – Dawn Lyon and Graham Crow Chapter 10: Imagination and the Analytical Potential of Working with Non-Interview or Unusual Data – John Goodwin and Henrietta O’Connor Chapter 11: Using Quantitative Data in Qualitative Secondary Analysis – Jane Gray and Ruth Geraghty
