Balancing theoretical foundations with practical strategies, this book helps you develop an approach to your qualitative data analysis that is both systematic and insightful.

Part I: Laying the foundations for analysisChapter 1: Thinking and working qualitativelyChapter 2: Foundations for thinking and working qualitativelyChapter 3: Design that supports analysisChapter 4: Managing and preparing data for analysisPart II: Fundamentals of analysis: working with dataChapter 5: Read, reflect, and connect: initial explorations of dataChapter 6: Coding as an analytic strategyChapter 7: Tools to manage the coding processChapter 8: Codes, themes, and descriptive writingChapter 9: Working with cases to build understanding and explanationChapter 10: Learning from stories, accounts, and conversationsChapter 11: Analysing visual dataChapter 12: Comparative analyses using coded dataPart III: Extending analysis beyond codes and themesChapter 13: Exploring, seeing, and investigating connections in dataChapter 14: Elaborating concepts, developing theoryChapter 15: Realising coherent understandingChapter 16: Defending and extending: issues of quality and significance