Event Location and Facilitation Note:
This online event is facilitated from Dublin, Ireland. While attendees are welcome to join from anywhere in the world, these live sessions are based on Dublin local time (GMT).
About this event:
This research training is:
- Engaging, hands-on, and interactive
- Designed to build researchers knowledge, skills and confidence to deepen your understanding of qualitative research and successfully conduct thematic analysis
- Based on first hand qualitative research and education experience and has been delivered extensively in Australia and internationally
- Interdisciplinary and suitable for both experienced researchers and those new to qualitative research
Real world and practical:
- This training draws on real-world examples from qualitative research projects, using thematic analysis, and other qualitative methodologies that the facilitator has undertaken; as well as practical examples to work through to help you conduct your own rigorous research.
- Participants each receive a resource pack full of activities we work through during the training.
Day 1 enables participants to:
- Have a strong understanding of the core aspects of qualitative research
- Explore and differentiate between essentialist, contextualist, and constructionist approaches to thematic analysis
- Be guided through each individual stage of thematic analysis via expertly crafted and supported activities
- Gain the skills and confidence to successfully complete a research project using thematic analysis
Day 2 enables participants to:
- Apply thematic analysis across essentialist, contextualist, and constructionist theoretical approaches
- Explore the importance of subjectivity and reflexivity in qualitative research
- Have a strong grounding in the distinctions between the three schools of thematic analysis (reflexive, codebook and coding reliability)
- Explore the relationship between thematic analysis and other qualitative approaches (e.g., discourse analysis, grounded theory interpretative phenomenological analysis)
- Use thematic analysis with a range of data types (e.g. images, webpages)
Participants receive:
- Pre-training material: Preparatory content, received two weeks before training
- Twelve hours of interactive, face-toface training over two days
- Certificate of Completion
- Option available to book in for one-on-one, post Masterclass support
Feedback from previous workshop participants:
- Excellent presentation, very helpful for current research practice. Interactive, paring work encouraged, learning and sharing of experience.
- Hugely helpful in thinking about my own methodology (grounded theory), different epistemologies and how they apply to real life.
- Very interactive and interesting activities throughout, great examples for own research.
- Brilliant workshop and very competent and articulate lecturer.
- Claire has great energy and passion, pulls you in, great delivery.
- The practicality of this session was fantastic. Thank you Claire!
- Oh my God, I love listening to a knowledgeable researcher who can communicate clearly and teaches well, thank you Claire.
- Claire presented everything in a very approachable and interesting way. Amazing workshop.
Cancellation and Refund Policy:
More than 21 Days Before the Training:
- Cancellations more than 21 days before the training date will be fully refunded (excluding any Eventbrite charges).
Between 7 and 21 Days Before the Training:
- Cancellations during this period are not eligible for a refund.
- You can transfer your registration to a different training session (subject to availability).
- If no alternative live trainings are available, we will offer a transfer to an online, self-paced course.
Within 7 Days of the Training:
- No refunds will be provided.
- Cancellations will only qualify for a transfer to an online, self-paced course.
- Alternatively, you may transfer your registration to another person. This transfer must be requested at least 1 business day before the training.
