WCQR2021: Day 2 - Plenary Conference "Methodological Innovation or Analytical Creativity?"...

Описание: WCQR2021 | 5th World Conference on Qualitative Research
20 to 22 January 2021 (ONLINE)
Day 2 - Plenary Conference: Methodological Innovation or Analytical Creativity? The New Practice-Based Typology of Narrative Analyses
Keynote speaker: Grzegorz Bryda (Jagiellonian University, PL)
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The nature of qualitative research practices is multiparadigmaticity, which creates coexistence of different research and analytical approaches to the study of experience and interactions in the human lifeworld. This diversity is accompanied by claims made for innovation and creativity in qualitative research methods and computer-assisted data analysis. Moreover, editors of top journals are expecting scientific papers that bring something new into the field of qualitative research methodology and data analysis. Researchers applying for grants try to be looking for methodological newness in their research proposal, to be more visible for reviewers. It seems that this way of thinking has become widespread among qualitative researchers today. This methodological diversity is particularly perceived in the contemporary field of narrative research and narrative data analysis. The main purpose of this talk is a methodological reflection on the process of developing a new bottom-up typology and making a new proposition of practice-based typology of narrative analyses used by qualitative researchers in their research practices. This reflection is based on a specific research project recently developed. The research and data analysis methodology is a combination of the classical CAQDAS, Corpus Linguistics, and Text Mining procedures to examine the different analytical strategies grounded in a vivid language of English-language research articles, published in five influential qualitative methodological journals between 2002-2016. Using the dictionary-based content analysis in the coding process, the procedure of hierarchical clustering, and topic modelling – a text-mining tool for discovering hidden semantic structures in a textual corpus – I confront heuristic typology proposed by Catherine Kohler Riessman with the exploratory, data-driven approach in order to contribute to a more coherent image of relations between different narrative analysis approach in the contemporary field of qualitative research. Finally, I propose a new network knowledge representation model of the constructing typology of narrative analyses, based upon written evidence of qualitative research practices than heuristic thinking. Moreover, I discuss the problem of methodological innovation and analytical creativity in the field of qualitative research practices, taking into account this environmental diversity context and my own research and analytical experience.
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