Conducting and Publishing Interpretive Research

Learning topics include:

• Setting up a qualitative research project
• Data collection and generation
• Choosing tools
• Seeking themes and patterns
• Capturing and crafting methods
• Practical publishing

The course will thus cycle through a number of applied topics, including scouting potential research sites, negotiating access, building and maintaining a project database, accessing specific types of data, template approaches and starting points, analytic techniques, and navigating the journal review process.

· to provide students with a broad and critical understanding of the key approaches and practices in interpretive research methods

· to stimulate both appreciation for and consideration of current theory and practice in interpretive research methods

· to allow students to reflect on their own experience, extrapolate and develop better interpretive research skills

· to prepare students for future roles in which they need to work with interpretive qualitative data and findings

Most sessions feature a combination of taught material and extended in-class exercises. These exercises serve the purpose of embedding learning and developing skills. They are also designed to build your research capacity and enhance your ability to do well on the assessment. Participation in all sessions is mandatory and will be monitored. For each morning or afternoon session that you fail to attend in its entirety, you will lose 10 points (out of 100). If you miss an exercise for a justifiable reason beyond your control, you should send an explanation of your absence to the instructor prior to the class.

(details on the portfolio submission will be given during the first session)