Advanced Qualitative Methods


Aims

The goal of this course is to provide students with in-depth knowledge of a range of different qualitative research methods, and to enable them to develop, fine tune and practice the methodological skills that are needed to think about, execute and publish excellent qualitative research.

Information

The course explores a range of different qualitative methods both theoretically and practically. Over a period of three consecutive weeks, the course considers the implications of doing qualitative research. What does your choice for a qualitative research set up mean for the questions you can ask and the answers you may be given? Which different qualitative research methods are out there, what kind of data do they allow us to collect and what kind of skillset is necessary to use them? The course will elaborate on different streams of qualitative research, such as the interpretive tradition, discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis, participant observation, ethnography, and grounded theory. In preparation of each topic, the students are required to collect relevant data (if applicable students will have the opportunity to use their own data). Through these small assignments students will get a feel for the different methods and how they as a researcher are a research tool themselves. The process of data collection will be discussed in class, and the data will be used subsequently for research analysis methods.

Additional info

As this is an advanced qualitative methods course, it is recommended that students have been enrolled in a basic qualitative methods course.

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More information and detailed timetables can be found here.

ERIM PhD candidates and Research Master students can register for this course via SIN Online.

External (non-ERIM) participants are welcome to this course. To register, please fill in the registration form and e-mail it to miizuka@rsm.nl by four weeks prior to the start of the course. Please note that the number of places for this course is limited. For external participants, the course fee is 260 euro per ECTS credit.