The Centre for Qualitative Research is running a series of South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP)-Funded Demand-Led Qualitative Innovation Sessions.
This webinar is part of the demand-led qualitative innovation sessions. These sessions will provide a deeper and more theoretical exploration of qualitative methods. These webinar-style sessions will consist of 5 stand-alone Demand-Led Qualitative Innovations sessions, delivered on a monthly basis to up to 300 students online. View an overview of all workshops in this series.
Summary of Webinar 1
This webinar focuses on collecting qualitative data using digital methods.
In 2020 Rebecca Whiting and Katrina Pritchard's book of Collecting Qualitative Data Using Digital Methods was published at SAGE.
In this session, based on this book, Rebecca and Katrina will use examples from their own research to:
- reflexively explore collecting qualitative data using digital methods
- discuss challenges
- examine future developments
Webinar leaders
Dr Rebecca Whiting is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London.
Rebecca’s research topics include the discursive construction of work identities, work-life boundaries, diversity (particularly age, gender and class and how they are socially constructed) and invisible work. She is interested in a wide range of qualitative methodologies, including the use of digital and visual data, and research ethics.
She has published journal articles and book chapters on aspects of qualitative methods, including in The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods and the OUP volume, Unconventional Methodology in Organization and Management Research.
Prof Katrina Pritchard is a Professor in the School of Management, Swansea University.
Katrina researches a range of topics related to issues of identity at work. She has published journal articles and book chapters on many aspects of qualitative methods, including in The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods (2017) and Symon and Cassell’s Qualitative Organizational Research: Core Methods and Current Challenges (2012).
Katrina’s methodological interests extend from traditional to creative qualitative methods, including visual and object-based, in addition to digital methods.