Top Research Papers on Thematic Analysis

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...

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.

: Background : The uptake of the Human Papillomavirus vaccination by UK female adolescents continues to reduce. In 2018/19 the completed two dose schedule was 83.9% but this reduced to 62.9% in 2022/23. Human Papillomavirus is linked to more than 70% of cancerous lesions worldwide and accounts for 95% of cervical cancers. Between 2017-2019 there were 3,256 cervical cancer diagnoses and 853 deaths from cervical cancer in the UK. The Human Papillomavirus vaccine is fundamental in reducing the cervical cancer rates. Aim: This literature review aims to understand the barriers to UK adolescent fema...

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...

Research has a long tradition of quantitative research which still dominates many university courses on research methods. Qualitative research is a younger phenomenon that was established in research after the second world war. An emerging research field that needed new analysis methods tailored for qualitative data. Two of the most frequently used approaches in qualitative data analysis are content analysis and thematic analysis. In several aspects content analysis and thematic analysis both share a common approach to analytically examine qualitative data, and the fact that they have been use...

The concept of themata is transdisciplinary, bridging the domains of science and the humanities. Themata are basic elements of thought, usually taking the form of dyadic oppositions. They have several uses, among which a thematic concept and a methodological (epistemological) thema appear to be the most important ones in the theory of social representations. A thematic concept, as used in social representations, refers to the content and transformation of a specific dyadic opposition, for example, moral/immoral or man/woman. A methodological (epistemological) thema is a guiding principle...

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

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.

Kuch’s most interesting discussion of the role of themata in information science uses my contributions to the literature on “obsolescence” as a study example, but I did not find that the concepts of “obsolete evidence” and “exponential decay in value” stood up to such critical examination.

As a historian of science,Gerald Holton's central contribution to historiography of science is thematic analysis.This essay elaborates its origin,main ideas and characteristics.This essay also compares the approach of Holton's historiography of science with that of Koyre and Kuhn in order to explain its contribution to historiography of science.

Outcomes suggest that with increased awareness and education around telematics, the older public may accept this technology as an advantageous alternative that could improve road safety as a whole.

The toolkit demonstrates how common analysis tasks like data collection, cleaning and filtering, modelling and sampling, and coding can be implemented within a single visual interface, and how that interface can encourage researchers to manage ethical and transparency considerations throughout their research process.

ABSTRACT Since initially writing on thematic analysis in 2006, the popularity of the method we outlined has exploded, the variety of TA approaches have expanded, and, not least, our thinking has developed and shifted. In this reflexive commentary, we look back at some of the unspoken assumptions that informed how we wrote our 2006 paper. We connect some of these un-identified assumptions, and developments in the method over the years, with some conceptual mismatches and confusions we see in published TA studies. In order to facilitate better TA practice, we reflect on how our thinking has evol...

It is found that crowdsourcing to develop code and textual responses was feasible, rapid, and inexpensive, offering the potential to enhance patient stakeholder engagement in evaluation.

The automated procedures to create the basis for a new Ancient Greek WordNet from bilingual dictionaries will be illustrated and the on-going project named Homeric Greek WordNet, validated by students and scholars, will be presented.

Envisioning and enacting teacher education for sustainable futures require simultaneous attention to multiple influences and imperatives. One among several possible approaches to this task is to draw on alternative scenarios as recommended by futures researchers, thereby suggesting several different possible visions of teacher education and considering their likely impact on current policymaking and practice. This paper deploys scenarios of potential higher education futures in the United Kingdom (Blass, Jasman, & Shelley, 2010, in press) as a framework for addressing this research question: W...

The paper endeavours to examine Shauna Singh Baldwin’s novel The Tiger Claw, which has Second World War as its backdrop. The article attempts to highlight Power politics, politically instigated wars and the consequences of political decisions on civil life. It highlights the importance of history in human life, as past can never be shaded as an event only, it always renders itself in the present and shapes it. The paper will also examine the theme of politics of convenience, oppression, multi-culturalism, discrimination, ethnic segregation and civilians’ struggle to reinstate love and peac...

William Wordsworth menemukan suatu kekuatan alam yang luar biasa yang tidak saja hanya  bisa  memuaskan manusia  tetapi  juga bisa merubah dunia ini menjadi  homeland atau tanah tumpah darah bagi para peri maupun hal-hal  yang  memiliki  kekuatan  supernatural.  Wordsworth sebagai  penyair yang  memuja  alam atau  penggemar  alam dan kecintaannya  terhadap  alam mungkin memang benar adanya karena alam selalu mengambil tempat dalam puisi-puisi yang dibuatnya. Dalam  studi  ini  dibicarakan  tentang  bagaimana  Wordsworth mempercayai bahwa alam selalu memberikan kegembiraan pada hati manusia bah...

"A Farewell to Arms" is one of the most famous works written by Ernest Hemingway.It displays two main interwaving themes of war and love by the narration of a young soldier ' s experience and his love affairs with a beautiful nurse in the first world war.The novel reflects the author ' s strong hatr...

Purpose – Despite the harmful impact of supervisor transgressions, they have received little empirical attention. The purpose of this paper is to addresses this important gap, examining the nature of transgressions committed at work by supervisors against subordinates. Design/methodology/approach – A critical incident technique was employed in which employees described a transgression committed by their supervisor. Qualitative responses were then analyzed, resulting in the emergence of supervisor transgression themes. Findings – In total, 11 themes emerged, including: performance criticisms, d...

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This paper is to probe into the thematic issue of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men which is most often read as one of his most pessimistic works. It points out that with the impact of the great depression, the dream of George and Lennie, the protagonists, or maybe any characters else of the book, though perished eventually, represents a strong desire to break the pattern of wandering and loneliness imposed on the casual workers and symbolizes a deep mutual commitment. The major theme of this work is,therefore, that men fear loneliness, and that they crave for others' understanding and companio...

The experience of time in various diagnostic groups was discussed in terms of the category system and three major categories were produced: Change and Continuity, Limits and Choices, and Tempo.

In the study, the poetic dimension of the Gagauz language was examined in the thematic context, and the functional range of meanings it reflected was analyzed. For this reason, a holistic impression focused on meaning and function was employed. In addition to being a literary art, Gagauz poetry appearing in a phonetic orbit; It has also incorporated the formal qualities of aesthetics such as symmetry, harmony and proportion. Thus, the aesthetic elements exhibiting a descriptive appearance in the surface structure enriched the deep structure and enabled the work to attain a strong composition. ...

Prevalent beliefs that assign attributes like meekness and weakness to women, limit their resources towards individual growth and wellbeing. This stereotyping provides fertile ground for the violation of human rights. As these stereotypes populate print and digital media, the catalogues of the lives of the ordinary on the Facebook pages of Humans of Bombay, Humans of Pakistan, Humans of Karachi and Humans of Bangalore provide alternative perspectives which can challenge such stereotypes and coax people into gradually discarding them. This work performs a thematic analysis on a subset of such s...

This study applied the Thematic Guide to Suicide Prediction to suicide notes, interpreted in the light of coroner's inquest papers, drawn from a Northern Irish population, and yielded support for the existence of psychological suicidal correlates.

This paper explores the use of the GPT model for initial coding in qualitative thematic analysis using a sample of UN policy documents and argues for a balanced use of AI in supported thematic analysis, highlighting its potential to elevate research efficacy and outcomes.

A novel theme-correlation coefficient is introduced that adds valuable information to traditional theme relation metrics and enables researchers to make new empirical observations in text data.

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...

This study explored how adults think about the concepts of meaning and spirituality, how they describe their own meaningful and spiritual experiences, and whether they believe meaning and spirituality are connected. A diverse sample of 128 participants between the ages of 18 and 93 years responded to seven open-ended questions either in a face-to-face or telephone interview, or an online survey. Participants who identified themselves as either spiritual or non-spiritual responded to the questionnaire. Through qualitative thematic analysis, we identified five themes for each concept: ultimate c...

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...

This study Thematic Analysis of the Isneg Literature was conducted for the collection, categorization, and compilation of Isneg literary texts/pieces to be used as materials for instruction in culture and literature related topics. Thematic analysis was applied in each literary texts/pieces, thereby making it easier for future users of the materials to aptly choose which text suits their lesson. Moreover, the analysis could lead one to understand better the Isnegs’ way of life.

The writer of a text often adopts some linguistic devices contributing to producing certain textual effect in order to highlight certain organizational function of text in the process of text formation.Thematization is just one of the important linguistic devices.This paper deals with the thematization phenomenon in the James Joyce's novel Eveline and its specific purpose to the text formation from functional style aspect based on the theory of theme structure in Systemic Functional Grammar.

Joseph Conrad expresses marvelously the rich flavor and the hidden meaning of events. Tocommunicate the reality he has seen and experienced, to saute with a mystical devotion the ideaof fidelity, to show the naked, lonely, and majestic human spirit in its capacity for striving andsuffering – this was Conrad’s achievement as a novelist. All of this and much more stands truefor Conrad’s masterpiece Heart of Darkness. It is a complex novel and a plethora of themes runthrough it .It is story of a character named Marlow who voyages to the mysterious DarkContinent to take the enigmatic figure Kurtz ...

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 ...

This work introduces a new algorithm to produce a soft clustering of document collections that is based on the concept of a theme, an EM algorithm in which the term representation and the document representation are explicit components and each is used to refine the other in an alternating fashion.

Ethnographic interviews have become a commonly used qualitat ive methodology for collecting data (Aronson, 1992). Once the information is gathered, res earchers are faced with the decision on how to analyze the data. There are many ways to anal yze informants' talk about their experiences (Mahrer, 1988; Spradley, 1979; Taylor & Bogdan, 1984), a nd thematic analysis is one such way. Although thematic analysis has been described (Benner, 1985; Leininger, 1985; Taylor & Board, 1984), there is insufficient literature that outlines the pragmatic process of thematic analysis. This article attempts t...

Menopause is the natural and unavoidable ending of a woman‘s procreative capability. An inter-play of biological, psychological, social and cultural influences is thought to shape each woman‘s understanding and experience of menopause. There are relatively few psychotherapeutic studies on menopause in comparison to other significant life transitions, and even fewer that address what happens in therapy between the client and therapist when either or both are transitioning through menopause. This study examines menopause in the context of psychotherapy. A thematic analysis of eleven pieces of da...

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...

Thematic analysis is an increasingly popular method for analysing qualitative data within the social sciences. Current guides for conducting thematic analysis promote the method’s broad flexibility across research designs, which has resulted in criticism that the method lacks the rigour and structure necessary for credible academic research. Recognizing the challenges faced by qualitative scholars, I developed and present an 8-step prescriptive approach specific to abductive methodologies incorporating many concepts from seminal works in thematic analysis, and importantly maintaining the balan...

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...

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A first thematic analysis based on a weakly structured source of knowledge, a collocation network, is used for learning explicit topic representations that then support a more precise and a more reliable thematicAnalysis.

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...

The geological applications of remote sensing technology are discussed, with emphasis given to the analysis of data from the Thematic Mapper (TM) instrument onboard the Landsat 4 satellite. The flight history and design characteristics of the Landsat 4/TM are reviewed, and some difficulties endountered in the interpretation of raw TM data are discussed, including: the volume of data; residual noise; detector-to-detector striping; and spatial misregistration between measurements. Preliminary results of several geological, lithological, geobotanical mapping experiments are presented as examples ...

This review article aims to examine studies about paternalistic leadership (PL) and present an overview of the literatures’ themes. The study examined articles based on their types, practices, institutions, and country distribution. A total of 271 articles were determined suitable for review. Papers were coded sequentially, and subthemes were created inductively rather than by attempting to fit them into a preexisting coding framework. Based on thematic analysis, four key themes emerged: the individual, organizations, leaders, and others. Most of the studies reviewed were empirical and quantit...

The Edible Women is one of the most outstanding novels of Margret Atwood which has set a big milestone in her writing career. The novel leaves multiple of interpretations since its subject touches the most sensitive and deepest chord of the society. The novel is more a social novel that it deals with the major issue of gender roles and relationships in general. Atwood has used the novel to magnify even the minute errors and ills of the society which is not touched by other writers of her time. She has clearly portrayed the actual problems of Canadian women of 1960s who have been suppressed by ...

This paper proposes the concept of ‘saliency analysis’ as an enhancement of thematic analysis, which assesses the degree to which each code recurs, is highly important or both.