Hello Muhammad Nawaz Tunio

ResearchGate offers you access for example to the following paper about thematic analysis:

Braun, Virginia, and Victoria Clarke. "Thematic analysis." (2012).

The paper has been given over 1700 citations at Google Scholar.

You can apply search to them according to your specific information needs.

Basically thematic analysis is about 1) how to isolate the themes (a theme may appear in a single sentence or a phrase or a larger textual whole, fixed borders of which could not be defined in an exact way), 2) how to give conceptual labels to them and 3) how to order them meaningfully in terms of your research task. Finally 4) you will compose, analyze and summarize a structure of themes which is most relevant in answering your research question.

I described the process here in a linear way, but it is more typically an iterative (=to be repeated modifying the focus) one.

Good luck,

Please look at the following below links which may help you in your analysis:

https://fac.ksu.edu.sa/sites/default/files/ta_thematic_analysis_dr_mohammed_alhojailan.pdf

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3170/1b4100ebabae16deba055c28a6bad28e6467.pdf

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1609406917733847

Thanks

Hello,

1. First open an excel sheet if you are manually conducting the analysis

2. Then in a column write down the names of the respondents

3. Then in each row write down the initial codes and sub-codes and start putting the matched quotes. The quotes should be aligned to the columns of their respective respondents.

4. While there will be emergent codes you can always create some extra new columns for those.

5. Then judging by the similar codes which depicts a single meaning, put those together under one theme.

6. Then subsequently create other themes as well.

The classic reference on Thematic Analysis is Braun and Clarke (2006). In addition, they maintain a useful website with FAQs and a bibliography of more recent publications.

https://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/thematic-analysis.html

The following publications may further help:

• Braun, V. and Clarke, V. (2006) Using thematic analysis in psychology, Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3, 2, pp. 77-101.
• Fereday, J. and Muir-Cochrane, E. (2006) Demonstrating Rigor Using Thematic Analysis: A Hybrid Approach of Inductive and Deductive Coding and Theme Development, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 5, 1, pp. 80-92.
• Javadi, M. and Zarea, K. (2016) Understanding Thematic Analysis and its Pitfall, Journal of Client Care, 1, 1, pp. 33-39.
• Riger, S. and Sigurvinsdottir, R. (2016) Thematic Analysis, in Jason, L.A. and Glenwick, D.S. (eds.) Handbook of Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, pp. 33-41.