Course description
Completion requirements
The course will outline the knowledge and skills necessary to publish qualitative research in the interpretive tradition in the IT disciplines – particularly the Information Systems discipline.
It will cover
• the ontological and epistemological positions behind interpretive research, and how it differs from positivist and critical research
• outlines of the various research styles associated with interpretivism: including ethnography, case studies, grounded theory, mixed method research and the various forms of engaged research
• organising systematic data collection
• content analysis with software tools
• theory generation in the interpretive tradition
• article design and publishing outlets.
The course will be relevant to students working with qualitative data in the IT disciplines, whether or not they formally consider themselves as interpretive researchers, since there is considerable overlap of methods and publishing traditions.
Format:
The course will be based on action learning where the participants in micro groups work on developing their research with a view to publication. The focus will be on data collection, data analysis, theory generation and article design.
Prerequisites:
Some experience of qualitative research with an IT focus
Learning objectives:
At the end of the course the students should be able to
• Plan and organise suitable data collection
• Analyse data using content analysis software
• Understand how to generalise their analysis results to theory
• Design a research article in the interpretive tradition
ECTS: 2.5
It will cover
• the ontological and epistemological positions behind interpretive research, and how it differs from positivist and critical research
• outlines of the various research styles associated with interpretivism: including ethnography, case studies, grounded theory, mixed method research and the various forms of engaged research
• organising systematic data collection
• content analysis with software tools
• theory generation in the interpretive tradition
• article design and publishing outlets.
The course will be relevant to students working with qualitative data in the IT disciplines, whether or not they formally consider themselves as interpretive researchers, since there is considerable overlap of methods and publishing traditions.
Format:
The course will be based on action learning where the participants in micro groups work on developing their research with a view to publication. The focus will be on data collection, data analysis, theory generation and article design.
Prerequisites:
Some experience of qualitative research with an IT focus
Learning objectives:
At the end of the course the students should be able to
• Plan and organise suitable data collection
• Analyse data using content analysis software
• Understand how to generalise their analysis results to theory
• Design a research article in the interpretive tradition
ECTS: 2.5
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