Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology

Dennis Howitt is with Loughborough University

Part 1 Background to qualitative methods in psychology
1 What is qualitative research in psychology and was it really hidden?
2 How qualitative methods developed in psychology: the qualitative revolution
Part 2 How to collect qualitative data
3 Qualitative interviewing
4 Focus groups
5 Ethnography/participant observation
Part 3 Qualitative data analysis
6 How to transcribe recordings
7 Thematic analysis
8 Using grounded theory
9 Social constructionist discourse analysis and discursive psychology
10 Conversation analysis
11 Foucauldian discourse analysis
12 Phenomenology
13 Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)
14 Narrative analysis
Part 4 Successful writing-up, ensuring quality and ethical clearance in qualitative research
15 How to write a good qualitative report
16 Ensuring quality in your research
17 How to obtain ethical clearance for qualitative research
18 Examples of qualitative report writing: learning to write good reports