Sumários
Aula 4
25 Janeiro 2024, 09:30 • José Gonçalves Dias
Understand the intellectual puzzle and connection to research design.
Aula 3
24 Janeiro 2024, 09:30 • José Gonçalves Dias
Context of qualitative research at DBA research level.
Class 2
23 Janeiro 2024, 09:30 • Maria João Major
Positivism versus inteepretativism. Explanatory and exploratory studies. Deductive reasoning in positivism. Planning qualitative research and collecting data. The research protocol and reliability. Building a chain of evidence and using theory to guide data collection and data analysis. Ethical issues and the informed consent. Data sources: documents, questionnaires, archival data, artificats, interviews, observation and participant-observation. Semi-structured interviews versus structured and non-structured interviews. How to conduct semi-structured interviews. Research methods: case study research versus experimental research. Evaluating the quality of evidence collected. Analyzing evidence. Gio et al's methodology versus Miles & Huberman's recommendations. Coding and the use of computer assisted qualitative data analysis software. First and second cycle coding. Developing theory. Writing up the thesis and research papers.
Class 1
22 Janeiro 2024, 09:30 • Maria João Major
Main concepts and principles of qualitatitive research. How to design and conduct qualitative research. The ontological and epistemological perspectives. The intellectual puzzle and the formulation of research questions. Validity, generalizabilty and reliability. Theoretical or analytical generalization in qualitative research versus statistical generalization in quantitative research. Data and methods triangulation. The ladder of abstraction in qualitative research.