Top Research Papers on Thematic Analysis

This chapter evaluates thematic analysis (TA), which is one of the oldest and most widely used qualitative analytic method across the social sciences. TA is a flexible method for identifying and analysing patterns of meaning — ‘themes’ — in qualitative data, with wide-ranging applications. The method has a long, if indeterminate, history in the social sciences, but seems likely to have evolved from early forms of (qualitative) content analysis. TA is now more likely to be demarcated and acknowledged as a distinct method; however, confusion remains about what TA is. The popularity of TA as a di...

This literature review aims to understand the barriers to UK adolescent females consenting to the Human Papillomavirus vaccination and four themes were identified: knowledge needs; risk of promiscuity; decision making; and administration procedures.

From Buddhist and Indigenous learning that points to a theoretical framework for pedagogical practice (DeAngelis) to business education that suggests a capacity building teaching and learning model (Longmore, Grant, and Golnaraghi), this issue of the Journal of Transformative Education is immediately engaging in its scholarship that locates synergetic, productive tension between traditions that may have traditionally been perceived as disparate. Moreover, exploring the praxis–rather than polarization–of a teaching and learning disposition (DeGennaro) highlights pedagogical possibilities for sh...

The process of conducting a thematic analysis is illustrated through the presentation of an auditable decision trail, guiding interpreting and representing textual data and exploring issues of rigor and trustworthiness.

Thematic analysis (TA) is a method for identifying, analyzing, and interpreting patterns of meaning (‘themes’) within qualitative data. TA is unusual in the canon of qualitative analytic approaches, because it offers a method – a tool or technique, unbounded by theoretical commitments – rather than a methodology (a theoretically informed, and confined, framework for research). This does not mean that TA is atheoretical, or, as is often assumed, realist, or essentialist. Rather, TA can be applied across a range of theoretical frameworks and indeed research paradigms. There are versions of TA de...

This chapter discusses themes and Codes, Validity and Reliability (Credibility and Dependability) in Qualitative Research and Data Analysis, and Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data.

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Jean Paul Weber who based his approach on the psychoanalytic thematic criticism of the concept, founded his critical system on the data furnished by the modern psychoanalysis. His view on thematic criticism starts from the suggestions and the points of view offered Ch. Mauron's psychocriticism and Bachelard's phenomenology. He also retains Freud's statement concerning the fact that some trauma of childhood has important consequences in shaping an adult's personality. Yet, he enlarges this aspect and and thinks that one should also take into consideration the infantile life as a whole. Starting...

This textbook provides a detailed, yet concise, explanation of both qualitative and quantitative approaches and draws upon case-study examples to illustrate how these can be used in a variety of health-care settings, with special relevance to clinical disorders, disease prevention and health promotion.

This research work suggests that a corpus should be classified from a linguistic theoretical perspective, as this would help to determine the level of the linguistic patterns that should be applied in the experiment of the classification process.

Charles Kupchan is a distinguished academic (professor of international relations at Georgetown University), a respected researcher (senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations), and author of many publications and has bridged the gap between academe and government (through service on the National Security Council during the first Clinton administration). He is also a clear-eyed Eur-optimist, more hopeful about the prospects of the European Union (EU) than most Europeans. The title of this provocative book tells it all. The author believes we are at the end of the American era. In the im...

Unsatisfied with the limitations imposed by any one particular martial art, Bruce Lee developed his own composite fighting style, which he called " Jeet Kune Do " (the way of the intercepting fist). Jeet Kune Do is not a novel set of fighting techniques , but rather a more focused style of combat that synthesizes the most useful techniques from numerous fighting arts. For Lee, this was an emancipatory endeavor that allowed practitioners of Jeet Kune Do to choose from a wide range of techniques and employ the most appropriate ones for a given objective. In Lee's words: I have not invented a "ne...

Thematic Analysis™ is a chemogenomic tool which has been developed and used to aid the process of GPCR drug discovery and provides examples of the successful application of theChemogenomic method in both hit finding and lead stages of the drug discovery process.

The detailed rules for the implementation of the thematic activity of the library are analyzed, the design and implementation modes including the content design mode and structure design mode are expounded, and some suggestions on doing well thethematic activity are put forward.

Gareth Terry and Nikki Hayfield's book, Essentials of Thematic Analysis, introduces readers to reflexive thematic analysis, a method for analyzing interview and focus group transcripts, qualitative survey responses, and other qualitative data. This method is based on the understanding that we all exist in a context from which we can see and speak. In this way, researchers produce knowledge that represents situated truths and allow them to understand others’ perspectives on a given topic. The book shows how to construct a “positioned reality of the situation” from qualitative data. According to...

This study focuses on finding out the reasons why some companies which report profit may lack cash for distribution. Ten (10) companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) formed the subject of the study using their financial statements. Specifically the profit and loss account (P&L) was used as the unit of analysis. Document/content analysis was adopted. Each item in the P&L account was thematically studied to find out what is responsible for cashless profit reported by companies. Credit transactions (credit sales and credit purchases) were found to explain the reason for cashless pro...

textabstractThematic analysis (TA) is a popular and foundational method of analysing qualitative policy data. It is concerned with the identification and analysis of patterns of meaning (themes) and constitutes a widely applicable, cost-effective and flexible tool for exploratory research. More generally, it constitutes a cornerstone of qualitative data analysis. Drawing principally on Braun and Clarke’s (2013; 2006) work, the chapter outlines when the use of this method is suitable and makes practical suggestions about how to plan and conduct TA research. Few policy studies employing TA conta...

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ABSTRACT Underlying thematic analysis are a few fundamental human cognitive processes, such as categorizing, prototyping and metaphorical mapping. By unpacking these basic processes of human cognition, this paper hopes to provide a cognitive basis for thematic analysis as a foundational method in data analysis for qualitative research. In particular, it hopes to address the gap between qualitative methodologists’ assumption of thematic analysis as a subjective, creative and flexible process and editors/reviewers’ expectation that thematic analysis shall be objective, reliable and rigorous. By ...

The popularity of qualitative methods in social science research is a well-noted and most welcomed fact. Thematic analysis, the often-used methods of qualitative research, provides concise description and interpretation in terms of themes and patterns from a data set. The application of thematic analysis requires trained expertise and should not be used in a prescriptive, linear, and inflexible manner while analyzing data. It should rather be implemented in relation to research question and data availability. To ensure its proper usage, Braun and Clarke have propounded the simplest yet effecti...