Obviously it will depend on your research questions, but how many themes is too many (for a PhD)? Yes, it is useful to watch you do the coding, because as you talk you explain things that you might not otherwise think to mention! Thank you.
@@charlenet8168 exactly, I often find myself forgetting to metnion things that I perceive as "obvious", but of course nothing is obvious in this complex process of qualitative data analysis. Regarding your question, there is no single number of themes that is "good" or expected, but I see that on average most studies have between 3 and maybe 5 or 6 themes, + sub-themes of course. Again, however, this does not mean that this is the "correct number". There is no such thing. Apologies for late response, but you can imagine that I get quite a few comments on YT, in addition to my normal work, so it is hard to keep track :) hope this helps nevertheless
Hi Dr Kriukow! Thank you so much for your extremely informative videos! I finally started coding my data in NVivo and it is not that scary as I thought at the beginning! I have one practical question (I cannot find the answer anywhere...). I have 21 files (interview scripts), all these files can be divided into three groups (by the type of user), so I have 3 groups with 7 people in each group. I am coding them all together, but want to analyze them later by groups too. Is there any function in NVivo where I can see the codes related only to one of these groups? Now I see the list of all codes and cannot extract the codes related to particular files/groups. Thank you! Sveta
this would need to be done either by keeping the coding separate, or by later assigning "file classifications" and creating attributes and values ("letting NVivo know" who belongs to each group), and later running a matrix coding query to explore coding for the separate groups
@@Lajkka I am using Nvivo and had similar question. The way I am handling it is that when I am reviewing the codes under any theme I keep notes if there is a different inclination for different group. For example most in “ senior management” groups comments is that shop floor has been provided all relevant tools, whilst most shop floor are inclined at saying that top management don’t understand our requirements Hope this makes some sense
Most impressive tutorial for thematic analysis and creating themes. I have a further question about the step of making a theme, whether this step is similar to the step of axial coding? How can we use these generated themes to conduct a further deep understanding of the research question, for instance, the casual relationships between external and internal factors?
relationships are always a very tricky topic , ideally to be avoided in qualitative research (if not avoided, then treated with caution). Overall, generating themes is something strictly resulting from stage 2 (axial coding, focused coding, depending on the used terms) and yes this step is very similar (in fact in some studies the line between the two is very blurry) - I have several videos where I talk about this, but in short, you create the themes based on what you can say about your data (based on the coding you have done up to now) - and based on what you Want to say you will select the themes and sub-themes that will help you build that narrative
Hello Dr Kriukow, thank you for your generous sharing, may I ask should we repeat the process of coding like initial code, category and theme for every transcript?
No, I usually do the initial coding for some time (sometimes even for all transcripts, but it depends - if I generate lots of codes after the first couple of transcripts, I may then decide it's time to move to stage 2), and then I take the whole developed coding to step 2
not sure what you mean. you can analyze either pdfs or word documents in NVivo, yes. And if you mean the ones I used in the video, they are available as part of my course (link in the description)
Hi Charlene, this is entirely up to you and your dataset. Mainly due to your preference and judgement as to whether to create a separate theme or keep the XYZ as sub-themes, categories, etc. I usually decide about this by thinking forward to which one will be better and clearer when reporting
Thanks for your information. but unfortunately, the sound quality of thi video is a little less good than the videos I've watched before th-cam.com/video/UGeknYoPSRk/w-d-xo.html
What is your biggest challenge when trying to develop themes?
Obviously it will depend on your research questions, but how many themes is too many (for a PhD)? Yes, it is useful to watch you do the coding, because as you talk you explain things that you might not otherwise think to mention! Thank you.
@@charlenet8168 exactly, I often find myself forgetting to metnion things that I perceive as "obvious", but of course nothing is obvious in this complex process of qualitative data analysis. Regarding your question, there is no single number of themes that is "good" or expected, but I see that on average most studies have between 3 and maybe 5 or 6 themes, + sub-themes of course. Again, however, this does not mean that this is the "correct number". There is no such thing. Apologies for late response, but you can imagine that I get quite a few comments on YT, in addition to my normal work, so it is hard to keep track :) hope this helps nevertheless
Thanks, a big time for this coding session with 3 episodes. It helped me immensely.
Glad it helped! Thank you for sharing this
Thank you for making this series, it helped me so much with my thesis!
Glad it was helpful!
That's a lot of work as seen you work in the dark. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
My pleasure! Glad that this is helpful
this channel must have more than one Million Followers
Thank you, hopefully I can one day get to 50 or 100 thousand! :)
@@qualitativeresearcher promise that I am going to share it with my friends 😉
THANK YOU DR KRIUKOW!!
My pleasure!
Hi Dr Kriukow! Thank you so much for your extremely informative videos! I finally started coding my data in NVivo and it is not that scary as I thought at the beginning!
I have one practical question (I cannot find the answer anywhere...). I have 21 files (interview scripts), all these files can be divided into three groups (by the type of user), so I have 3 groups with 7 people in each group. I am coding them all together, but want to analyze them later by groups too. Is there any function in NVivo where I can see the codes related only to one of these groups? Now I see the list of all codes and cannot extract the codes related to particular files/groups. Thank you! Sveta
this would need to be done either by keeping the coding separate, or by later assigning "file classifications" and creating attributes and values ("letting NVivo know" who belongs to each group), and later running a matrix coding query to explore coding for the separate groups
@@qualitativeresearcher thank you! I was exploring different ways and will do it separately, as you suggested
@@Lajkka I am using Nvivo and had similar question. The way I am handling it is that when I am reviewing the codes under any theme I keep notes if there is a different inclination for different group. For example most in “ senior management” groups comments is that shop floor has been provided all relevant tools, whilst most shop floor are inclined at saying that top management don’t understand our requirements
Hope this makes some sense
Most impressive tutorial for thematic analysis and creating themes.
I have a further question about the step of making a theme, whether this step is similar to the step of axial coding?
How can we use these generated themes to conduct a further deep understanding of the research question, for instance, the casual relationships between external and internal factors?
relationships are always a very tricky topic , ideally to be avoided in qualitative research (if not avoided, then treated with caution). Overall, generating themes is something strictly resulting from stage 2 (axial coding, focused coding, depending on the used terms) and yes this step is very similar (in fact in some studies the line between the two is very blurry) - I have several videos where I talk about this, but in short, you create the themes based on what you can say about your data (based on the coding you have done up to now) - and based on what you Want to say you will select the themes and sub-themes that will help you build that narrative
Hello Dr Kriukow, thank you for your generous sharing, may I ask should we repeat the process of coding like initial code, category and theme for every transcript?
No, I usually do the initial coding for some time (sometimes even for all transcripts, but it depends - if I generate lots of codes after the first couple of transcripts, I may then decide it's time to move to stage 2), and then I take the whole developed coding to step 2
@@qualitativeresearcher Thank you so much, it's very helpful!
Thanks!
Thank you! This is very kind, and I am glad that I could help you with my videos
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Thank you so much it is the most interesting. But how can I get the pdf or word cocument.
not sure what you mean. you can analyze either pdfs or word documents in NVivo, yes. And if you mean the ones I used in the video, they are available as part of my course (link in the description)
What are your thoughts about categories within sub-themes? Should it be a separate theme?
Hi Charlene, this is entirely up to you and your dataset. Mainly due to your preference and judgement as to whether to create a separate theme or keep the XYZ as sub-themes, categories, etc. I usually decide about this by thinking forward to which one will be better and clearer when reporting
Thanks for your information. but unfortunately, the sound quality of thi video is a little less good than the videos I've watched before th-cam.com/video/UGeknYoPSRk/w-d-xo.html
thank you for the comment, but I really am not sure what you mean, it seems the same to me
@@qualitativeresearchersorry I mean I have to turn my computer volume up a little bit. Overall it' ok. 🙏👍
Your material is super, however, there is tooooooo much repetition
This video should be trimmed down to no more than 10 minutes
Thank you. I guess I am not that good at trimming down then ;)
@@qualitativeresearcher 💕🌹💕
For me the repetition is very helpful. So I guess he is considering learner diversity.
@@arethamaposa4503 yes very good point.
I do find the repetition helpful. For a new researcher, the detail and repetition has made things clearer on the process. Please don’t trim 🙏🏾