#PRESENTING RESEARCH FINDINGS PROFESSIONAL#

What kinds of codes did you assign to relevant excerpts of the data?.Addressing the following questions would be great: Due to this, you are expected to describe the main and detailed steps you took to analyze your data to arrive at your findings and their respective outcomes. Qualitative analysis doesn’t only involve engaging in subjective development of codes and categories, but also promoting transparency in the coding and categorization process (Greckhamer & Cilesiz, 2014). In the same way, you need to let readers know who you are, what your background is and how you ‘bracketed’ them from not having an effect on the findings ( Adu, 2019). Also, as a researcher analyzing qualitative data, there is the likelihood of your own background impacting the data analysis process. Due to this, there is the need to provide readers a summary of who participants are and any background information which may help them to put the findings into the proper context. Participants’ past and current situations influence the information they provide to you. Presentation of findings Presenting background information They are background information, data analysis process and main findings.įigure 1.

In this post, I will discuss the three pertinent components a good presentation of qualitative findings should have. Other questions that may arise as you develop your presentation include what kind of results should you present? How do you engage with your audience when presenting your findings? How would you help your audience to understand and believe your findings? the outcomes) needs to be presented to your audience (see Adu, 2019). You can watch the presentation I developed below: These findings need to be carefully examined – selecting the ones that will be useful in drafting a meaningful presentation. The outcomes include but are not limited to codes/nodes, categories/themes, Word Clouds, Word Tree, Framework Matrices, Cluster Tree, code-case matrices, and code-attribute matrices (see Figure 1). Your methodical review of the qualitative data and development of codes, categories and themes has yielded massive and interesting NVivo outputs. The moment you reach a milestone of successfully using NVivo 12 (Version 12.1.249 QSR International Pty Ltd, 2018) to complete the data analysis process, the reality of preparing all of this data so you can present your findings sets in (Adu, 2016). Expounding on the third stage which is the ‘ Post-Coding stage (Presenting your findings)’, I want to throw light on things to consider when drafting and refining your presentation. In my previous blog post, I presented on making good use of the innovative features of NVivo across the three main stages of qualitative analysis. This post follows on from his previous blog post “Perfecting the art of qualitative coding” in which he took us through the stages of qualitative coding and, along the way, outlined the features he found most useful. In this post he explains the things to consider when presenting your research findings.

#PRESENTING RESEARCH FINDINGS PROFESSIONAL#

Philip Adu is a Methodology Expert at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (TCSPP).

Presenting research findings