Margaret R Roller

"Actively Conducting an Analysis to Construct an Interpretation" - In #qualitative data analysis, researchers actively derive meaning & do not rest on automated tools that exploit the obvious. As Braun & Clarke have said, "themes do not passively emerge" bit.ly/37NlE75

📚 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐅-𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐯𝐞! 📚

This month’s pick is 𝑬𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 by Jonathan A. Smith & @Isabella E. Nizza.

Smith and Nizza guide us through a step-by-step method to explore how people make sense of their lived experiences.

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Qualitative Research Design: Matching Constructs With Research Objectives An important and sometimes missed component of qualitative research design are the well-defined constructs the researcher will explore. In fact, the Total Quality Framework, and its emphasis on gen…

"#Qualitative Research Design: Matching Constructs With Research Objectives" - The integrity & ultimate Usefulness of our qualitative research hinges on maintaining a focus on the core research objectives & the constructs that guide the research process. bit.ly/3zenVWZ

Exploring Complexity, Identifying Connections, Deriving Meaningful Next Steps In 2025, Pubic Opinion Quarterly made history with the publication of its first-ever special issue devoted to qualitative research. As discussed here, “this special issue includes nine articl…

"Exploring Complexity, Identifying Connections, Deriving Meaningful Next Steps" — An excerpt from our editorial "Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social and Behavioral Sciences" underscoring the complex interconnections that define #qualitative research bit.ly/4revTWB

In Qualitative Psychology from @apajournals.bsky.social, "The double-edged scalpel: The stress and responsibility of being a surgeon" by Leeat Granek et al. — Addressing surgeons' burdens to improve the quality of their lives & the quality of patient & family care. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

In @apajournals.bsky.social, "Client experiences of drama therapy: A systematic review and qualitative meta-analysis" by Tobias Constien, Akhila Khanna, & Amélie Wiberg - Symbolic, creative, & playful experiences found supportive. Some find them difficult, obstructive psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Exploring Complexity, Identifying Connections, Deriving Meaningful Next Steps In 2025, Pubic Opinion Quarterly made history with the publication of its first-ever special issue devoted to qualitative research. As discussed here, “this special issue includes nine articl…

"Exploring Complexity, Identifying Connections, Deriving Meaningful Next Steps" — An excerpt from our editorial "Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social and Behavioral Sciences" underscoring the complex interconnections that define #qualitative research bit.ly/4revTWB

Exploring Complexity, Identifying Connections, Deriving Meaningful Next Steps In 2025, Pubic Opinion Quarterly made history with the publication of its first-ever special issue devoted to qualitative research. As discussed here, “this special issue includes nine articl…

"Exploring Complexity, Identifying Connections, Deriving Meaningful Next Steps" — An excerpt from our editorial "Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social and Behavioral Sciences" underscoring the complex interconnections that define #qualitative research bit.ly/4revTWB

"Simply Being: A Found Poem for the Trans Community From Trans Mental Health Professionals and Trainees" by Pease & Galupo - Implications for research & the power of poetry, creative methodologies, & diverse epistemologies in advancing trans equity & liberation psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Proposal Deadline: November 23 — 2025 RUTHELLEN JOSSELSON STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS — SQIP is offering 5 awards up to $500 each to support graduate students currently enrolled in programs in psychology or related fields to complete projects based in #qualitative approaches www.sqip.org/post/2025-ru...

Unbound From Mechanical Solutions: Multidimensional Critical Thinking in Qualitative Research A quality and ethical approach to qualitative research is grounded in multidimensional critical thinking. Over the years, this reality has been discussed at great length in Research Design Review. …

"Unbound From Mechanical Solutions: Multidimensional Critical Thinking in #Qualitative Research" - The integrity of our outcomes & our ethical commitments to participants are built from a multifaceted immersion that is unbound from a mechanical process. bit.ly/MCThinking

This is one of four excellent articles intended for use in the classroom. The others in that special issue focus on decolonial, phenomenological, and critical participatory action research. They are student-friendly and historically embedded descriptions that make clear how to do each one well!

Focus Group Dynamics & Quality Outcomes As discussed elsewhere in this blog, the ability of the moderator to multitask has important implications to the quality of focus group discussion data. For example, to gain quality data, the moder…

"Focus Group Dynamics & Quality Outcomes" — Here are the ways that group dynamics can lead a discussion in unexpected directions, and tactics for maintaining the focus on research objectives and quality outcomes bit.ly/GrpDyn #qualitative

"Methodological retrospective: Critical participatory action research" by Jesica Silham Fernández and Michelle Fine, in Qualitative Psychology. "We feature contemporary examples of CPAR and end with reflections, challenges, and dilemmas of engaging CPAR" psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

In Qualitative Psychology, "Phenomenological method in psychological science: A methodological retrospective" by Frederick J. Wertz - Forward movement requires the presentation and integration of phenomenological method in psychology’s methodological curricula, psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Qualitative Analysis: ‘Thick Meaning’ by Preserving Each Lived Experience My approach to qualitative data analysis has nothing to do with Post-it Notes, clipping excerpts from transcripts (digitally or with scissors), or otherwise breaking participants’ input (“data”) in…

"#Qualitative Analysis: ‘Thick Meaning’ by Preserving Each Lived Experience" - Not codes or clips but the personal context of the experiences, thoughts, and ideas we uncover allow researchers to build a thick stew of meaning within and across participants bit.ly/2IA1y3H

📢 @surveypractice.bsky.social 2026 Special Issue — Call for Papers — “Mixed Methods Research: Deepening Our Knowledge Through Integrated Designs” Guest editors:
@margaretrroller.bsky.social and Doug Currivan

Submission deadline: November 14, 2025 www.surveypractice.org/post/3334-20...

"In-depth Interview Method: Strengths & Limitations of 4 Modes" - This highlights the primary strengths & limitations of 4 modes used in the IDI method — face-to-face, phone, email, & mobile - bit.ly/4IDIModes #qualitativeresearch #totalqualityframework #indepthinterviews

"Pigeonholing Qualitative Data: Why #Qualitative Responses Cannot Be Quantified" - In qualitative research, context is everything. And it is the importance of context that prevents the researcher from treating the data as discrete responses to be counted bit.ly/3kCqQy3

The Fall 2025 SQIP newsletter is now available.

It includes the Presidential statement and vision for the forthcoming year by @seamusapower.bsky.social, a message from @heidilevitt.bsky.social, a spotlight on @saramcclelland.bsky.social, & much more. You can read it here: www.sqip.org/newsletters

📢 @surveypractice.bsky.social 2026 Special Issue — Call for Papers — “Mixed Methods Research: Deepening Our Knowledge Through Integrated Designs” Guest editors:
@margaretrroller.bsky.social and Doug Currivan

Submission deadline: November 14, 2025 www.surveypractice.org/post/3334-20...

"Sample Size in Qualitative Research & the Risk of Relying on Saturation" Relying on saturation to establish sample size in #qualitative research ignores the purpose & unique attributes of qualitative research, & prioritizes manifest over latent content disregarding contextual meaning bit.ly/2VVoZYW

A Holistic Approach to Qualitative Analysis When conducting a qualitative analysis of in-depth interview (IDI) and focus group discussion data, the first step is to maintain the completeness of each case or research event. This means develop…

"A Holistic Approach to #Qualitative Analysis" The researcher considers the entirety of what they have learned about each individual or group of participants as revealed in a combination of obvious, subtle, & contextual interconnections within the data. t.ly/s0ZHz

New special section of Qualitative Methods on Methodological Retrospectives—a new initiative launched by the journal. Explore articles on person-centered narrative analysis, decolonial qualitative enactments and modes of inquiry, and more: https://bit.ly/3J5eD4V @qualpsy.bsky.social

Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social and Behavioral Sciences Public opinion and social science researchers are motivated by their mission to gain an understanding of people’s attitudes and behavior, and, in so doing,

As we say in "Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social and Behavioral Sciences," the true definition of #qualitative research resides in the complexity of the lived experience and the opportunity for the researcher to explore this complexity academic.oup.com/poq/article/... @poqjournal.bsky.social

"Understanding the Attack on Science as an Discrediting of Minoritized Lived Experiences"... An editorial in Qualitative Psychology

Qualitative Data Analysis: The Unit of Analysis The following is a modified excerpt from Applied Qualitative Research Design: A Total Quality Framework Approach (Roller & Lavrakas, 2015, pp. 262-263). As discussed in two earlier articles in …

"#Qualitative Data Analysis: The Unit of Analysis" - Broad, contextually rich units of analysis — maintained throughout coding, category & theme development, & interpretation — are crucial to deriving meaning & ensuring the integrity of research outcomes.. bit.ly/2PvDwH4

New post "Thematic Analysis: An Applied Use of a Blended Approach" at bit.ly/4hqo77t shines a light on the thoughtful article in @poqjournal.bsky.social by @mariekehaan.bsky.social and Simon Venema discussing the qualities of TA & the benefits of combining fairly structured & flexible approaches

New post "Thematic Analysis: An Applied Use of a Blended Approach" at bit.ly/4hqo77t shines a light on the thoughtful article in @poqjournal.bsky.social by @mariekehaan.bsky.social and Simon Venema discussing the qualities of TA & the benefits of combining fairly structured & flexible approaches

Next in the series "A Qualitative Look at Journalists’ Reporting & Potential Harm to Democratic Norms" at bit.ly/4ngz6S0, with the spotlight on the @poqjournal.bsky.social article by @ferreira-rr.bsky.social and @jfdaoust.bsky.social discussing when & how to report disturbing political news.