2nd Edition

How Qualitative Data Analysis Happens Moving Beyond “Themes Emerged”

Edited By Áine M Humble, M. Elise Radina Copyright 2025
    274 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    274 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    How Qualitative Data Analysis Happens: Moving Beyond “Themes Emerged” offers an in-depth look into how qualitative social science researchers studying a wide range of human experiences and dynamics approach their data analyses. This expanded edition includes 13 new chapters from a broad range of disciplines that document the stories about how qualitative data analysis occurred.


    Chapters for this expanded edition represent a diversity of disciplines (e.g., criminology, family science, education, health, nutrition, sociology, sport psychology) that focus on the human experience and describe a diversity of methodological approaches. These chapters may be used to introduce readers to newer or innovative ways of analysing data. It moves beyond the usual vague statement of “themes emerged from the data” to show readers how researchers actively and consciously arrive at their themes and conclusions, revealing the complexity and time involved in making sense of thousands of pages of interview data, multiple data sources, and diverse types of data. The various authors provide detailed narratives into how they analysed their data from previous publications. The methodologies range from arts-based research, autoethnography, community-based participatory research, ethnography, grounded theory, to narrative analysis. The volume allows readers to be seemingly “in the room” with these international scholars (representing Canada, the US, Austria, Germany, the UK, and the Philippines) and getting their own hands vicariously dirty with the data.


    This new edition also includes a conclusion chapter, in which the authors reflect on commonalities across the chapters. Supplemental figures, images, and screenshots, which are referred to in the chapters, are included in an accompanying eResource (that can be accessed at www.routledge.com/ 9781032183213), as well as links to the previously published work on which the chapters are based. This book is an invaluable resource for experienced and novice qualitative researchers throughout the social sciences, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field.

    Introduction: How This Second (and Expanded) Volume Happened

    M. Elise Radina and Áine M. Humble

     

    Chapter 1: How Autoethnography Begins and Never Ends: A Tracing of the “Self” in Relation to #MeToo and Higher Education

    Angela Underhill

     

    Chapter 2: Using Institutional Ethnography to Trace the Ruling of Weight Surveillance Work

    Alexa Ferdinands and Kim Raine

     

    Chapter 3: Writing a New Materialist Ethnography on Polyamorous Parents

    Cornelia Schadler

     

    Chapter 4: Reading Between the Lines of After Death Communication Stories: Using Narrative Analysis to Make the Implicit Explicit

    Sara Hackett and Kate de Medeiros

     

    Chapter 5: Data Analytic Strategies Used in a Remote Photovoice Project of Filipino Single Mothers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Dennis S. Erasga, Jerome V. Cleofas, Mary Rose Jean Andrada-Poa, and Ronaldo F. Jabal

     

    Chapter 6: Phenomenological Analysis and Racial Socialization Interpretation of Interviews with African American Parents of Toddlers Sons

    Sheresa Boone Blanchard, Stephanie Irby Coard, and Mariana Mereoiu

     

    Chapter 7: Black Feminist Theory and Thematic Analysis: Analyzing the Motherwork of Black Women Nursing Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Adrienne L. Edwards-Bianchi

     

    Chapter 8: Visualizing Relationships to Explore Opportunities for Family Engagement in Diabetes and Hypertension Management

    Meredith P. Fort, Cornelia J. Santos, Maria de los Angeles Villaverde, and Kelly R. Moore

     

    Chapter 9: Voices from Inside Prison: Centering People Through Intentional Sampling, Coding, and Analysis Within Large Research Teams

    Danielle S. Rudes, Shannon Magnuson, and Sydney N. Ingel

     

    Chapter 10: Triangulating Partners’ Views Over Time: Analyzing Multiple Perspective Qualitative Longitudinal Interviews on Non-Normative Work-Care Arrangements in the Transition to Parenthood in Practice

    Susanne Vogl, Eva-Maria Schmidt, and Ulrike Zartler

     

    Chapter 11: Media Priming and Racialized Production Decisions in College Football Broadcasts: Extrapolating Strategies for Analyzing Video Data

    Sara E. Grummert and Siduri J. Haslerig

     

    Chapter 12: Reflections on Conducting Team-Based Qualitatively Oriented Mixed Methods Research about Students with Disabilities in STEM Clubs

    Peggy Shannon-Baker, Karin Fisher, and Kania Greer

     

    Chapter 13: Mixing Methods to Advance our Understanding of Parental Stress and Coping in Youth Sport

                Sam N. Thrower, Travis E. Dorsch, Camilla J. Knight, and Chris G. Harwood

     

    Chapter 14: Final Reflections

    Áine M. Humble and M. Elise Radina

     

    Biography

    Áine M. Humble is Professor of Family Studies and Gerontology at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.


    M. Elise Radina is Professor of Family Science at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA.