DEFEND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH! (if you like) by Emma O'Dwyer https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl en-us 2021-03-15 16:50:16 UTC 2021-03-18 14:51:07 UTC hello@padlet.com Postmodernism KU52549 https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1311730938 How can you say anything definitive about your qualitative research findings? Much qualitative research relies on the postmodern perspective, which contends that “reality is in the eye of the beholder.” If everything goes and no reality is privileged,how can you be sure of anything? What’s the point? (Gergen, 1988)]]> 2021-03-15 16:51:03 UTC https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1311730938 Generalisabilty KU52549 https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1311735013 If qualitative research can’t be generalized, what good is it? How can we have any faith in findings that can’t be generalized?
Wouldn’t it be better to consider this study a pilot and to conduct a large scale survey afterward? With such a
small sample, how can this study be useful? (Kennedy, 1979)]]> 2021-03-15 16:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1311735013 Researcher bias KU52549 https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1311741091 What the researcher attends to, the questions the researcher asks, even the quotes the researcher chooses to put into a report could all bias that report. So, how can we trust a qualitative research report? What can you do to reduce researcher bias? Isn’t it true that qualitative studies will always be able to produce exactly what the investigator expects? (Lather, 1986; Phillips, 1990) ]]> 2021-03-15 16:52:52 UTC https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1311741091 Rigour KU52549 https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1311745540 Social scientists need solid quantitative proof to gain equal footing with physical scientists. Good quantitative instruments have been validated. Qualitative research is just opinion. Shouldn’t we seek objective, factual data instead of subjective opinions? What is the difference between qualitative research and journalism? (Reason, 1994) ]]> 2021-03-15 16:53:22 UTC https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1311745540 Reliability & validity KU52549 https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1311748411 Is this study replicable? If not, how can it be considered scientific? How do you address reliability and validity in qualitative research? (Kirk & Miller, 1986) ]]> 2021-03-15 16:53:51 UTC https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1311748411 Subjectivity of the participants KU52549 https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1311753980 If you use qualitative evaluation methods, how do you know whether a program is truly effective? Maybe a program is good for the people who use it, but they may not like it. If you use qualitative methods you might get an overly negative view of this effective program. Don’t you agree? (Maguire, 1987) ]]> 2021-03-15 16:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1311753980 Legitimacy KU52549 https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1311756640 Real science uses statistics. We need to conduct legitimate scientific experiments. Isn’t it true that qualitative methods do not have legitimacy or acceptance today? (Denzin & Lincoln, 1994) ]]> 2021-03-15 16:55:22 UTC https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1311756640 Perceptions of Covid-19 risk, barriers, and facilitators among the UK South Asian community KU52549 https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1312169054 Background

The proposed study aims to understand the perception of health risk and health inequalities relating to accessing health care that may exist in the South Asian community during the pandemic. It will provide an understanding of how health inequalities are perceived and enacted by the South Asian community during the pandemic, with a view of trying to unpick some of the reasons for the disproportionate representation of illness with COVID-19 among BAME communities. 

Method

We will recruit a convenience sample of approximately 12 members of the UK South Asian community to participate in individual interviews with the researcher (a British-Indian researcher). The interview schedule will focus on the following topics: participants’ representations of Covid risk, barriers, and facilitators in the South Asian community. Example questions are, “what do you think are the health concerns for people in your community during this pandemic and why?”, “how do you think your, the South Asian community, has specifically been affected by the coronavirus?”. We will analyse the data using thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). 

 

]]> 2021-03-15 18:09:46 UTC https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1312169054 https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1325696716 Reliability and validity of qualitative research is a very important issue. I believe that by trying to be as transparent as possible with your subjects, letting them voice their opinions without criticism and evaluating your findings with consideration and conscientiousness, you can achieve both reliability and validity.

]]> 2021-03-18 14:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1325696716 https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1325754086 "We are not just a number or participant 1"
(Just a view on qualitative research in general not so much on this piece of research)
Psychology ultimately investigates how human beings think,feel,function. As human beings we are not numbers for statistical analysis but individuals and so should be examined as one, in my view words do represent us humans and our psychological being, more than numbers. This is why, ultimately, I prefer qualitative (over quantitative) research methods. ]]> 2021-03-18 14:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1325754086 https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1325760618 Who are the coders? 
What has South Asian community have something to be generalised to the whole BAME community? 
What is the footing from? What theories suggested that there may be a difference in health inequalities have effect when healthcare is free? ]]> 2021-03-18 14:32:02 UTC https://padlet.com/KU52549/fedyzheomxf6rhfl/wish/1325760618