I am doing a qualitative study on Road Safety Involving various stakeholders. I have done indepth interviews with them. I need a standard proforma for writing the qualitative study. Can anyone suggest me the guidelines for qualitative research.
Dear Armarnath, before you can get to the article writing stage, it's useful to get an overview of some different approaches to qualitative data analysis, I would recommend the book by Braun & Clarke, entitled Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners (2013). They also have a good website with various leaning resources, and they have a chapter in the book on writing up research: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/successful-qualitative-research/book233059#contents. Ideally, you'd have an idea of which analysis method to use before conducting your data collection, but reality sometimes works against this... During my first attempts at data analysis I used thematic analysis, which can be tweaked for different purposes, including more or less interpretative approaches. Article Using thematic analysis in psychology
Good luck with your research!
There is no standard format; and if there was it would create a painfully boring literature.
I recommend that you find five or six good, peer-reviewed, journals in at least two disciplines that emphasize qualitative research (social work, education, public administration....) and read several dozen articles...then you will know what to do.
The following sources may further help, particularly: the analytic procedure/guidelines/reporting of qualitative data analysis (see: Spiggle, 1994, pp. 496-500; Perry, 1998, pp. 33-37; Ritchie and Lewis, 2003, pp. 219-293).·
- Braun, V. and Clarke, V. (2012) Thematic analysis, in Cooper, H., Camic, P.M., Long, D.L., Panter, A.T., Rindskopf, D. and Sher, K.J. (eds.) APA handbook of research methods in psychology, Vol 2: Research designs: Quantitative, qualitative, neuropsychological, and biological. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, pp. 57-71.
- · Chenail, R. J. (1995) Presenting Qualitative Data, The Qualitative Report, 2, 3, pp. 1-8.
- · Miles, M. B. and Huberman, A. M. (1994) Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook. 2nd edn. CA: Sage: Thousand Oaks.
- · Perry, C. (1998) A structured approach to presenting phd theses: notes for candidates and their supervisors, Australasian Marketing Journal, 6, 1, pp. 1-57.
- · Ritchie, J. and Lewis, J. (2003) Qualitative research practice: A guide for social science students and researchers. London: SAGE Publications.
- · Spiggle, S. (1994) Analysis and interpretation of qualitative data in consumer research, Journal of consumer research, 21, 3, pp. 491-503.
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