Qualitative methodology

Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data: Index creation using fuzzy-set QCA

by Bettina Trueb

Accepted in "Quality and Quantity"

Le choc des images : l’usage de la vidéo en études et recherche marketing

by Delphine Dion

Book chapter  dans Marketing - Nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles perspectives, Eds. G. Cliquet, Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

Dion D. (2012), Le choc des images : l’usage de la vidéo en études et recherche marketing, dans Marketing - Nouveaux... more Dion D. (2012), Le choc des images : l’usage de la vidéo en études et recherche marketing, dans Marketing - Nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles perspectives, Eds. G. Cliquet, Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

A Review of the Relevant Merits and Disadvantages of the Current Assessment Methods used in the Photography BTEC Extended Diploma Course

by Ben Macloughlin

This paper explores the current assessment method used in a Photography BTEC course. It reveals the role of formative... more This paper explores the current assessment method used in a Photography BTEC course. It reveals the role of formative and summative assessment methods in Photography. It identifies the differences between the use of sketchbooks, PowerPoint and blogs to track learner progress and for receiving feedback. The research takes into account the views of the learners and their tutors and offers an insight into teaching and learning styles. The aim of the paper is to discover which assessment method best suits Photography and can possibly raise the standards of teaching and learning in the UK.

Behind supervisory doors: Taught Masters dissertation students as qualitative apprentices

by Alasdair Gordon-Finlayson

Maunder, R.E., Gordon-Finlayson, A.R., Callaghan, J. & Roberts, A.  (2012).  Behind supervisory doors: Taught Masters dissertation students as qualitative apprentices.  Psychology Learning and Teaching, 11(1), pp.30-38.

In this paper we explore the supervision of Masters students undertaking qualitative research dissertations.... more In this paper we explore the supervision of Masters students undertaking qualitative research dissertations. Specifically, we present a model for theorising the nature of the supervisory relationship established with students who are relative newcomers to the qualitative research community. By drawing on reflections from our own practice and situating this within a broader context of the Community of Practice approach to learning (Lave & Wenger, 1991), we argue that the supervision of qualitative Masters dissertations can be seen as an apprenticeship into qualitative research, whereby students begin to take on the identity of a qualitative researcher. Adopting such a model requires that we re-conceptualise how supervisors work with their supervisees, how we prepare students for the requirements of the dissertation, and develop strategies to facilitate their transition from novice to expert. In this paper we explore how we might integrate theoretical and practical concerns in applying the apprentice model to Masters dissertation  supervision, considering the advantages and limitations of such a model.

Italian Governmental Media Campaigns to Prevent HIV/AIDS: An Effectiveness Study

by Valentina Bazzarin

Co-authored with Pina Lalli
CHALLENGES IN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION, edited by M. Kefalaki & Y. Pasadeos, Athens, ATINER (Athens Institute for Education and Research), 2012, pp.81-95

Abstract:   
This project consisted of a longitudinal scenario analysis of public health media... more Abstract:   
This project consisted of a longitudinal scenario analysis of public health media campaigns aimed at preventing AIDS transmission over the past 20 years. Using funding and data provided by the Ministry, we determined the types of messages conveyed in these campaigns, the dissemination of these messages, their priority in media coverage, and knowledge of HIV/AIDS risk in the public. Subsequently, we conducted a survey, also funded by the Italian Ministry of Health, to independently verify the social impact of one of these campaigns.

Our analysis shows that new cases of HIV/AIDS have decreased in Italy since the mid-nineties, and the advent of antiretroviral drugs has reduced AIDS-related deaths. Consequently, media attention has waned, as have educational campaigns aimed at sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention, causing the rate of decline of HIV transmission to slow and transmission of other STDs to surge. Today, there are 120,000 people with HIV/AIDS living in Italy (mostly women and migrants), and 100 new cases are diagnosed each day. These data highlight the importance of returning the issue to the top of the public health and media agendas.

Results from the national survey (n=500, male and female respondents, 15-59 years old) showed that while the ministerial campaign examined effectively returned HIV/AIDS to the public spotlight and promoted condom use as prevention, it was not designed according to social marketing principles. It lacked a specific objective, clear target, effective language, a rational dissemination and integration strategy, and it overestimated current public awareness of the issue. This resulted in public misunderstanding regarding the source and purpose of the campaign and poor memorability of the message. This survey also showed a discrepancy between self-reported AIDS literacy and actual knowledge on the issue in the public.

On psychology and embodiment: some methodological experiments

by john cromby

" Mission Civilisatrice": Fixing scientific evidence and other practices of neo-colonialism in social sciences

by Marco Gemignani

The Advancement of Visual Methodologies: Integrating the Senses With Reflexivity and Phenomenology.

by Marco Gemignani

Constructing Crime, Enacting Morality: emotion, crime and anti-social behaviour in an inner-city community

by john cromby

Research into emotion, crime and anti-social behaviour has lacked psychological input and rarely considered the... more Research into emotion, crime and anti-social behaviour has lacked psychological input and rarely considered the multi-directional associations between emotion, crime and morality. We present a study analysing audio recordings of two community groups meeting in a deprived inner city area with high rates of crime, using conversation analytic and discursive psychological techniques to conduct an affective-textual analysis that draws out aspects of participants’ moral reasoning and identifies its emotional dimensions. Moral reasoning around crime and ASB took three forms (invoking moral categories, developing moral hierarchies, invoking vulnerable others), and was bound up with a wide range of emotional enactments and emotion displays. Findings are discussed in relation to contemporary government policy and possible future research.

Social psychology and the empirical body: Rethinking the relationship

by john cromby

Although social science work on the body has demonstrated its thorough socialisation, social psychology has barely... more Although social science work on the body has demonstrated its thorough socialisation, social psychology has barely recognised the mutual interdependence of the physical body and the social world. Accordingly, we propose that social psychology might be enriched and extended by detailed investigation of changes in the activity of the empirical body alongside processes of meaning-making during social interaction. We illustrate our proposal with a case study of changes in blood pressure during conversation, explored in conjunction with analyses using four discursive frames: gaining voice; identity negotiation; joint action/knowing of the third kind; positioning theory. We argue that this approach challenges the artificial separation of social psychology from other sub-disciplines, might inform social psychological analyses of emotion and belief, and allows it to address substantive topics, such as psychopathology, which it typically largely excludes.

Misyurov D.A. Dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas // Credo New. 2012. №2

by Dmitry Misyurov

The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with... more The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with dominant and the non-dominant elements; universal formula; formula with symbolic weight of elements; tautological formula. For example, it suggests an opportunity to use the dialectical formulas for modeling and artificial intelligence creation, etc.

Aproximación cuantitativa a la organización social de los ticuna del trapecio amazónico colombiano

by Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo

(with Juan José Vieco)
La organización social de los Ticuna del trapecio amazónico colombiano: una aproximación cuantitativa. Revista Colombiana de Antropología 35:146-179. 1999 1999

This paper argues that Ticuna identity is based on terms of belonging to a clan (which they call nacao= nation). These... more This paper argues that Ticuna identity is based on terms of belonging to a clan (which they call nacao= nation). These clans are clustered in the moieties of "Earth" and "Air". The Ticuna have a hierarchical society than can be interpreted under the model of the house society. The clans have a prescriptive marriage that favors the endogamic control of territories and settlements. Although the marriage system is denominated "hypertotemic exogamous moieties" by Levi-Strauss, there is no significant exchange of females between villages.

Utiliser la photo et la vidéo : les apports de l’anthropologie visuelle

by Delphine Dion

Book chapter dans Etudes marketing : de nouvelles techniques pour mieux comprendre les consommateurs, D. Dion (ed.), Dunod.

The contribution made by visual anthropology to the study of consumption behavior

by Delphine Dion

Les apports de l'anthropologie visuelle à l'étude des comportements de consommation

by Delphine Dion

Techniques and tools. Corpus methods and statistics for semantics

by Dylan Glynn

An overview of the corpus methods and statistical techniques in Cognitive Semantics An overview of the corpus methods and statistical techniques in Cognitive Semantics

Turning Points in Identity and Theology: Bisexual Women Choosing Between Monogamous and Polyamorous Relationships

by Margaret Robinson

This study contributes to the development of nascent bisexual theology by examining bisexual women’s lives in relation... more This study contributes to the development of nascent bisexual theology by examining bisexual women’s lives in relation to the stereotype that bisexuals desire concurrent male and female partners.  Building on qualitative email interviews with forty bisexual women in the Greater Toronto Area, this thesis finds that monogamy and polyamory function as strategic identities.  If bisexual theology is to speak authentically to the needs of bisexual women, it must provide a critical analysis of these identities, understand and respond to their role in shaping communities, moral agency and theological knowledge.

Chapter One sets the conflation of bisexuality with polyamory in its political and theological context.  Four characteristics of Catholic sexual ethics—their foundational, sacramental, social, and moral character—frame this investigation about bisexual women as subjects of theological enterprise.  The conflation of bisexuality and polyamory is posed as the key challenge for both secular politics and articulating a bisexual theological perspective.  Chapter Two provides a methodological overview of the qualitative research project using voice centred relational analysis (VCRA) as an appropriate tool to conduct and analyse the interviews in their social context.  Chapter Three summarises the results of the VCRA analysis and highlights key themes from the interviews.  Chapter Four relates the results of the primary research to the theological writing of Robert Goss and Marcella Althaus-Reid by examining five common elements in their work to assess how their work meets the challenges raised by the interview analysis.  The final chapter relates these common elements in the work of Goss and Althaus-Reid to the four characteristics of Catholic sexual ethics outlined in Chapter One to emphasize the importance of building bisexual women’s communities and how this relates to the development of bisexual theology.  The thesis concludes with concrete recommendations for bisexual women’s community building and offers directions for further bisexual theological work. 

Phenomenological Psychological Research as Science

by Marc Applebaum

Published in the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 2012 (43)

Husserl framed his phenomenological inquiries as a response to the historical moment in which he found himself—a... more Husserl framed his phenomenological inquiries as a response to the historical moment in which he found himself—a period of crisis in which, he argued, a pervasive attitude of skepticism threatened to undermine peoples’ trust in their capacity to discover meaning in individual and communal life through reasoned inquiry. Today, a range of naïve assumptions regarding the meaning of science present challenges to conveying a Husserlian approach to psychological research. This paper is intended to address a variety of assumptions which can be encountered when introducing students to Giorgi’s phenomenological psychological research method. These assumptions are: 1) That the meaning of “science” is exhausted by empirical science, and therefore qualitative research, even if termed “human science,” is more akin to literature or art than methodical, scientific inquiry; 2) That as a primarily aesthetic, poetic enterprise human scientific psychology need not attempt to achieve a degree of rigor and epistemological clarity analogous (while not equivalent) to that pursued by natural scientists; 3) That “objectivity” is a concept belonging to natural science, and therefore human science ought not to strive for objectivity because this would require “objectivizing” the human being; 4) That qualitative research must always adopt an “interpretive” approach, description being seen as merely a mode of interpretation. These assumptions are responded to from a perspective drawing primarily upon Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, but also upon Eagleton’s analysis of aestheticism.

Readings, Classifications and Dialogue: an evaluation of two research articles

by Nigel Newton

An evaluation of two distinct research papers with the aim of classification and evaluation.

How do we classify and evaluate published research articles? The discussion that follows will challenge aspects... more How do we classify and evaluate published research articles? The discussion that follows will challenge aspects implicit in standard methods of classification, while illustrating the importance of definition as a tool for enhancing the value derived from reading research articles. The task will provide a brief resumé of the contents of two published academic articles, methods of classifying research articles will be explored and, finally, an alternative method of evaluation will be explored. 

Collecting student perceptions of feedback through interviews

by Marie-Emilie Masson

Teachers and students make up the two major actors in classroom environment. How these two interact will largely... more Teachers and students make up the two major actors in classroom environment. How these two interact will largely determine the amount of learning produced. Of the many forms of teacher-student interaction, such as instruction, social interaction, and discipline, the research indicates that feedback is one of the strongest predictors of positive learning outcomes (Hattie, 2009). While research indicates that in order for feedback to be effective, it needs to be timely, appropriate to the students’ proficiency, and formative (Kluger & DeNisi, 1996), teachers’ awareness of that alone is not enough to ensure successful learning outcomes. In fact, regardless of the quality of feedback produced by one teacher, if students do not believe the feedback being delivered is beneficial to reaching their goals, its effectiveness will be greatly diminished. It is therefore necessary to overcome any form of cognitive dissonance between teacher and student about useful feedback before the learning process can begin. Determining what types of feedback students believe are important will allow teachers to address these beliefs and re-align them with what research has shown to be the most beneficial. This research aims at answering two questions: 1) What feedback do students deem relevant? 2) What forms of teacher feedback do they perceive in the classroom? After introducing the background for the research, the presentation will examine the data collected through interviews with students in their native language, the methodology used to gather such data and the results from this preliminary study. This research is based in the foreign language classroom setting of a private Japanese university. Given the limited number of classes available during one academic year, teachers and students who are in accordance in their beliefs will benefit from a powerful learning environment. Raising teacher and student awareness of classroom practices and beliefs will not only promote student motivation and learner autonomy, but also the creation of
this positive learning environment.