Discuss how to unify the two interviews,or make sense of them together through the thematic categories created.

Writing up your analysis

Objective

In this seminar the seminar leader will provide useful advice regarding the interpretation of the data and the final write up of the analytic process. Make sure you show up to this seminar with an analysis completed until step 5 “Defining and Naming the themes”, that way you can use this seminar to complete your analysis and work on step 6 “producing the report”

Keep in mind that the marking criteria as well as the coursework guidelines are available on moodle and teams and it would be a good idea to have them nearby for today’s seminar in case you have questions related to how to accommodate any of the required elements. In addition to this you have available the article “Thematic Analysis: Striving to Meet the Trustworthiness Criteria” by Nowell, Norris, White, and Moules (2017) on teams and moodle to support your work during this seminar. Check it out!

Activities

⦁ Make sure you are happy with the themes that you identified for your analysis. If at this point you are unsure about your themes take this opportunity to ask your seminar leader for clarifications or support regarding your themes.

⦁ Consider comments and questions regarding:

⦁ How to incorporate reflexivity to the analytic process
⦁ How to unify the two interviews,or make sense of them together through the thematic categories created
⦁ How to interpret the findings on the analyses
⦁ How to offer an explanation of the findings
⦁ How can we consider alternative explanations to the data?