Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Pat Bazeley is Director of Research Support P/L and Adjunct Professor in the Translational Research and Social Innovation Centre at Western Sydney University. Since graduating in psychology, she has worked in community development, as an evaluation researcher, and in academic research development. For almost 30 years Pat has been providing research training and project consulting to academics, graduate students and practitioners representing a wide range of disciplines across Australia and internationally. Her particular expertise is in helping researchers to make sense of qualitative, survey, and mixed methods data, and to use computer programs for management and analysis of data. Pat’s research has focused on qualitative and mixed methods data analysis, the development and performance of researchers, and the wellbeing of older women. She has published books, chapters, and articles on mixed methods and qualitative data analysis. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research and was 2015–2016 President of the Mixed Methods International Research Association.

Reviews

Pat Bazeley’s book is suitable for both novice and experienced researchers who are serious about undertaking rigorous qualitative analysis. It succeeds in balancing academic considerations with the practicalities of doing qualitative data analysis. The entire text is prescribed reading for all my senior students who are tackling qualitative research. 
*Jacques de Wet*

If you are new to qualitative research and interested in developing theory at doctoral level, this book is a useful resource for demystifying theory development. As a Phenomenologist, I found the phenomenology sections are written in accessible language. A valuable guide covering the basics, including naming codes and understanding thick descriptions.
*Efe Imiren*

For many students and emerging scholars new to qualitative research, the analysis of qualitative research data remains a mysterious process. This book is an indispensable guide in opening up this ‘black box’ of qualitative research. Pat Bazeley shows the qualitative data analysis process in action: not a technical and highly procedural undertaking, but an interpretative act that requires as much systematicity as it requires creativity, imagination and thinking.
*Mathias Decuypere*