Karen O’Reilly

Upcoming workshops These mini workshops are all led by me, are informal opportunities to focus on a specific aspect of qualitative research methods, and last just 2 1/2 hours. If you're interested please message me with any queries or just sign up! I look forward to seeing you. Qualitative Sampling and Sample Size  10/03/26  from 4 – 6.30 pm GMT Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) 

Upcoming workshops

These mini workshops are all led by me, are informal opportunities to focus on a specific aspect of qualitative research methods, and last just 2 1/2 hours. If you're interested please message me with any queries or just sign up! I look forward to seeing you. Qualitative…

Promote walking and cycling? How very Stalinist! 🙄 🤷‍♀️

My hope is he will over egg the pudding with his attempt to get loads of reform councillors in place ready for the next election. The smell of incompetence is definitely rotten eggs.

Understanding Research Methodology and Methods When designing a research project, it is really useful to clarify important aspects of your methodology before going on to describe the actual methods that you will (or might) use – even if you only do this for yourself. Methodology is the understanding (ology) of how the research will be approached, the logic (informed by philosophical debates and considerations) that informs and shapes the actual methods used, how and when, as well as other decisions around sampling, ethics, and so on.

Understanding Research Methodology and Methods

When designing a research project, it is really useful to clarify important aspects of your methodology before going on to describe the actual methods that you will (or might) use – even if you only do this for yourself. Methodology is the…

Yet he continues to be appeased.

It’s so obvious to me that he doesn’t give a damn what he says only what he gets. He pitches high knowing he will get knocked back and that in the end he will get what he wanted in the first place. Meanwhile world leaders and journalists can’t seem to see it is all a simple blag and barter.

UPCOMING TRAINING WORKSHOPS All my training workshops are just 2 ½ hours long and very reasonably priced. They are online, informal, and encourage interaction among participants. Workshops usually draw from my book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone, Policy Press, 2025. These workshops (like my book) are designed for students and academics, and for practitioners working in diverse applied settings, such as nursing and charity work.

UPCOMING TRAINING WORKSHOPS

All my training workshops are just 2 ½ hours long and very reasonably priced. They are online, informal, and encourage interaction among participants. Workshops usually draw from my book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone, Policy Press, 2025. These workshops…

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Lord Toby Young?! He’s a disgrace to his family name.

In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X?

Good question. Elif Shafak. Eva Illouz.

Oh dear. I just read this as UK ICE. The news is getting to me

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it

It is time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter Grok is just one of many reasons why Westminster should finally get off the website.

Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same.

Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter.

www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Upcoming workshops – book early Happy new year to you all. A reminder of upcoming qualitative research methods workshops is below All are run by me, are informal, and run on Wednesdays 10 – 12.30 UK time Please share with colleagues and reserve your place early if you can. What is Reflexivity in Practice Jan 14 from 10am to 12:30pm GMT Ethnography for the 21st Century…

Upcoming workshops – book early

Happy new year to you all. A reminder of upcoming qualitative research methods workshops is below All are run by me, are informal, and run on Wednesdays 10 – 12.30 UK time Please share with colleagues and reserve your place early if you can. What is Reflexivity in…

I wish he would.

Workshop on Qualitative Data Analysis I am running a series of short qualitative methods workshop, all online My next 2 1/2 hour workshop is on: Monday, 1st December at 10 till 12:30 am (UK time) On the topic of Interpretive Qualitative Data Analysis 15 places available. £25 plus Eventbrite’s fee

Workshop on Qualitative Data Analysis

I am running a series of short qualitative methods workshop, all online My next 2 1/2 hour workshop is on: Monday, 1st December at 10 till 12:30 am (UK time) On the topic of Interpretive Qualitative Data Analysis 15 places available. £25 plus Eventbrite’s fee

What is reflexivity, in practice? The event will address how to do reflexivity, how to be reflexive in research design, data collection, analysis, and writing

My next workshop and I’ve sold two tickets already! ReflexivityInPractice.eventbrite.co.uk

Role or whole person?  When I was teaching last week, I was reminded of the distinction I make in my book between interviewing a person as a representative of a role or as a whole person. Quite a few people have found this a useful distinction to make. When you are interviewing someone in their role - for example as a teacher or a police officer - they will respond to you and to the research in a different way than if you have asked to interview them about their personal life.

Role or whole person? 

When I was teaching last week, I was reminded of the distinction I make in my book between interviewing a person as a representative of a role or as a whole person. Quite a few people have found this a useful distinction to make. When you are interviewing someone in their…

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Qualitative Sampling and Sample size with Karen O'Reilly An interactive online session examining interpretive sampling as outlined in Karen's book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone.

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Qualitative Sampling and Sample size with Karen O'Reilly An interactive online session examining interpretive sampling as outlined in Karen's book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone.

My first solo run online mini course is next Wednesday. It’s on qualitative sampling. This is a trial run to see if it’s something people find useful. Please share with anyone who might be interested.
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For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

@ottoenglish.bsky.social nice to see your book in the most prestigious book shop in London

Why a Toolkit for Qualitative Research? In my new book, Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit, I use a toolkit approach. But what do I mean by this? The toolkit for qualitative research is a collection of expert skills, knowledge, procedures, tools, or information. The book shares this collection of ‘tools’ across nine chapters, because I believe that once you are familiar with a wide range of tools, you can draw on them as and when required in order to make informed and relevant choices that reflect your own philosophical perspective, that respect your research participants, and that you can explain and justify when asked.

Why a Toolkit for Qualitative Research?

In my new book, Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit, I use a toolkit approach. But what do I mean by this? The toolkit for qualitative research is a collection of expert skills, knowledge, procedures, tools, or information. The…

It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty As Labour flounders and dabbles in the politics of hatred to gain a point or two, it is those far from power who will suffer most, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lifestyle, Migration and Community Karen O'Reilly, Michaela Benson, Matthew Hayes, Graham Crow Online Wednesday 24 September 18.30–20.00 UTC+1/BST The Sociological Review Foundation Conversations series

NEXT WEDS @18:30: Why did “lifestyle migration” capture so many social scientists’ imagination? How has it travelled in the 25 years since The British on the Costa del Sol?

Join author @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social, Matthew Hayes & Graham Crow online. buff.ly/fHs6cNK

Why a Toolkit for Qualitative Research? In my new book, Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit, I use a toolkit approach. But what do I mean by this? The toolkit for qualitative research is a collection of expert skills, knowledge, procedures, tools, or information. The book shares this collection of ‘tools’ across nine chapters, because I believe that once you are familiar with a wide range of tools, you can draw on them as and when required in order to make informed and relevant choices that reflect your own philosophical perspective, that respect your research participants, and that you can explain and justify when asked.

Why a Toolkit for Qualitative Research?

In my new book, Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit, I use a toolkit approach. But what do I mean by this? The toolkit for qualitative research is a collection of expert skills, knowledge, procedures, tools, or information. The…