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(Mis)conceptualising themes, thematic analysis, and other problems with Fugard and Potts’ (2015) sample-size tool for thematic analysis
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One of us (VC) was having a conversation with a student recently about the origins and history of thematic analysis (TA). The student had read Qualitative Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy ...
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Using thematic analysis in psychology
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“The student had read Qualitative Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy (McLeod, 2011), a text which presents TA as a variant of grounded theory.”
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Reflecting on reflexive thematic analysis
Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2019) · Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health · doi:10.1080/2159676x.2019.1628806 · Cited by 19,677
“…key appeals to researchers drawing on our approach is to read some of our more recent writing, to gain a sense of how our thinking around and articulation of our approach has evolved over the years (e.g. Braun and Clarke 2016; Braun, Clarke, and Weate 2016; Braun et al. 2018; Terry et al. 2017).”
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“27 Here, themes are often implicitly treated as real things that exist in data and which the researcher ‘identifies’ or ‘discovers’.”
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“…Clarke, and Terry 2014; Braun, Clarke, and Weate, 2016; Clarke and Braun 2016), encyclopaedia entries (Clarke and Braun 2014a, 2014b), commentaries (Braun and Clarke 2016, 2019; Clarke and Braun 2018) and editorials (Braun and Clarke 2014; Clarke and Braun 2017), and created a website…”
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A thematic analysis of attitudes towards English nonbinary pronouns
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A qualitative examination of how accountability manifests itself in a circular economy
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Metadata
- Authors
- Braun, V., & Clarke, V.
- Venue
- International Journal of Social Research Methodology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2016-06-16
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 739-743
- ISSN
- 1364-5579 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-5300
- OpenAlex
- W2426090710
- Cited by
- 576
- References
- 7
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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