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Introducing Qualitative Research in Pyschology


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Thematic Analysis

Worked Example of Thematic Analysis

Jamie Enoch - "Dear England"

In this resource, we aim to show how you might go about undertaking a thematic analysis (TA), and we provide an illustrative worked example below. It is worth noting that there are excellent, comprehensive worked examples in other key works on TA (e.g. Braun & Clarke, 2006; Terry, Hayfield, Clarke, & Braun, 2017). Our aim here is to be transparent about how we followed the stages of TA, based fundamentally around Braun and Clarke’s reflexive method of TA (Braun & Clarke, 2019), and the questions and decisions we were confronted with at each stage. Helpful advice on Virginia Braun’s and Victoria Clarke’s approach to TA is also available on their TA website.

Reflection on conducting a Thematic Analysis - a conversation between Jamie Enoch and Carla Willig



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