Evaluating Qualitative Research

Professor Nada Kakabadse

The purpose of this seminar is to assist participants to gain a theoretical, yet practical, and critical understanding of qualitative inquiry.

Learning Objectives

The session is designed to assist participants to:

· Understand qualitative inquiry purposes approaches and challenges.

· Distinguish amongst a selected variety of qualitative research traditions such as grounded theory, ethnography and human inquiry.

· Understand the stages of research design

· Understand the limitations of the qualitative inquiry.

· Appreciate the nature of validity issues in qualitative inquiry.

· Explore and practise key operational procedures associated with qualitative data gathering.

This workshop is open to any student currently registered on a research degree programme at the University of Northampton. Further information is available from Simone Apel (simone.apel@northampton.ac.uk; 01604 893418).