Analysing qualitative data
Steve GriggsCreative Research
INTRODUCTION
Any one looking through recent back numbers of the various publications of the MRS would probably arrive at several conclusions concerning the state of the art of qualitative research in the UK: firstly, a sense of the coming of age of qualitative research after a period of some 10 years or so of rapid growth. Secondly, an apparent obsession with techniques and methods for eliciting information from respondents with 'transactional analysis' the latest craze. Thirdly, concern about the interpretation and presentation of results and, fourthly the apparent continuing uneasy relationship...