Qualitative methods
Case study
- complex research strategy
- present particular case in depth
- use multiple qualitative methods
- used to better understand the topic
Action research Doing and intervention in a case study, tracking the consequences of the intervention (e.g., to test another management method a company, to improve a product, etc.)
Observational study
Citizen science Old method of research (e.g., biologists or naturalists): implies going in the field (literally), observing and reporting results (e.g., classifying butterflies)
- many people may be involved (even volunteering)
Survey: useful when the population is very specific and the variables to be measured are clear
Focus group: people selected for their expertise and or as exponents of diverging opinions
Diary study Allows researchers to construct pictures of social reality from the actors’ perspective, based on detailed information about events and activities in the participants work lives
- diaries can elicit information that are difficult to assess or recall accurately, are easily forgotten, or are sensitive information
Grounded theory: systematic methodology for theory construction/discovery through the bottom-up analysis of data
- open-ended inquiry produces data without underlying theory
- the data is studied in a systematic way to construct/discover a theory to explain the data
- this can be done in both automatic quantitative ways (e.g., data mining), and qualitative ways (e.g., interpretation, speculations)
Structured abstracts Put sections on the abstracts
- background
- aims
- method
- results/findings
- conclusions
next lesson group:
- charlie
- the italian guy
- the ireland guy
try to put everything together consider as topic: AI, productivity, security,
eg., Will AI lead to firing devs?
Think about multiple studies that can be connected to answer this Q
- literature review. What would you do?
- empirical studies. What would you do?