Produce a 2,500 word report (+/- 10%, including in-text references) based on the interview transcript provided. Your assessment should have the title:
Research Report: Thematic analysis of qualitative data
This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:
LO 1: Demonstrate understanding and knowledge of qualitative social research.
LO 2: Critically evaluate and assess epistemological positions, research design and ethical issues in relation to social scientific research.
LO 3: Analyse qualitative data and link the results to wider social scientific literature
Task requirements
You are required to do a thematic analysis of the transcript of qualitative data that has been provided for you. Write a report that follows the structure that is set out below:
Title
Introduction
Epistemology and ethics
Findings – identify two [minimum] and three [maximum] themes to analyse
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Your report must:
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Discuss epistemological issues in relation to this research
• Discuss relevant ethical issues
• Identify two/three themes emerging from the participants’ responses in the transcript
• Discuss these themes, drawing on an appropriate range of relevant social science academic, research and policy material to enable you to develop your analysis
• Interpret the research participants’ answers using the above
• Include quotations from the transcript where appropriate
• Draw conclusions based on the data analysis
For the purposes of the assessment, you should assume that the research project from which the transcript comes has been agreed by the University’s Ethics Committee
