Some of the questions that I suggest thinking about include: How does qualitative research contribute to creativity? How can brainstorming contribute to generating new concepts in qualitative research? and so on.

You can benefit from this reference:

https://books.google.com.sa/books/about/Qualitative_Data_Analysis.html?hl=id&id=3CNrUbTu6CsC&redir_esc=y

Hi Abdullah, Thank you for your immediate response. Some of your suggestion, I would like to take into my study. I am still looking for any master's thesis related to my own RQ, which is "What is the best Fieldwork for Ideation process?" The term of "Ideation process" here may include brainstorming, mind-map, any group work activity to create new idea. If yo would come across any idea regarding this, please do let me know.

I really appreciate your kind help.

Warm regards,

Kimiko

"What is the best Fieldwork for Ideation process?" The iterative ideation process is related to what idea(s) or problems you’re focused on. It has wide application usage depending on which direction you want to go, for example, design fields of varying descriptions, etc. However, the specific fieldwork you need to embark on depends on what you are focusing on. At this initial stage, it seems to me to be a difficulty in prescribing the fieldwork without the specific focus or definition of the research problem. It could also create a stultification of great ideas you may have without defining your particular research problem. So in looking at the relationship between qualitative research (ethnography) and the ideation activity, what are you aiming at? Again, once you define that, you’re good to go. That is why @Abdullah Al-Beraidi attempts to help define specific problems you could look at. Thanks

Hi Adam, Thank you so much for your note.

To specify what I am aiming for, I would like to make my query more concrete.

so now I d like to rephrase my question as below:

Is there any study regarding the value of intuition/inspiration they may gain during FW/ethno in the context of Creative/Design Thinking?

I have hypo that people must have certain level of "gut feeling" during the FW to be more creative in later ideation phase.

Thank you so much for reading my question here and appreciate your help in advance for any idea/thoughts.

Regards,

Kimiko

Hi Kimiko Akiyama

Not sure if it relates to what you are looking for but my Ph.D. might be of interest

Thesis Designer as Ethnographer: A Study of Domestic Cooking and He...

It uses design methods, the creation of personas, and ideation through sketching after ethnographic fieldwork. If you have any questions let me know.

P.J.

Hi P.J. White , Thank you very much for your interest and sharing your work. My thesis is actually about role of a qualitative research as a tool of innovation (such as a Design Research of Design Thinking) and it is a sort of meta analysis of the current qual research methodologies, like, "what is mandate quality for the best ideation outcome (in context of design thinking) ?" Thank you for your helpful hand anyway, I would like to look in your work as well with wish I could refer any aspect from. Warm regards, KImiko

No problem Kimiko, you’re welcome. If I come across other thesis that relate to your work il send them to you. Best wishes in your studies.

P.J.