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"there are three fundamental questions that need unpacking before declarative claims can be made about the relevance of replication to qualitative research. This includes critical questioning of what we mean by: replication, qualitative research, and rigour."

"Interview Guide Development: A 4-Stage Funnel Approach" The most effective #qualitative interview or discussion guide begins broadly to gain necessary context & progressively narrows the topic area to that of greatest importance to the research objectives bit.ly/3j1sKbU

Writing theoretical frameworks, analytical frameworks and conceptual frameworks buff.ly/3YNmx88 Do you feel confused by the differences across TFs, AFs and CFs? So did I. I wrote this blog post to clarify the differences for myself. May be of interest/help to you.

For download: The In-depth Interview Method bit.ly/2wzIey3 - The Focus Group Method bit.ly/3akMzCV - Qualitative Data Analysis bit.ly/2zius3I - #Qualitative Research: Transparency & Reporting bit.ly/2Tc5IBr - Reflexivity bit.ly/2zE0BTV

PhD Students - How to write the conclusion section of your research paper? Conclusion section is where you have the last opportunity to leave a solid impression. Here is a stepwise process for writing the conclusion section. 𝟏. 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡

In "Qualitative Research Writing", the authors offer practical guidance based on over two decades of working with faculty and doctoral students. Learn more and get your copy here: ow.ly/9jPC50Uo8hj

"Member Checking & the Importance of Context" - The idea of going back to participants at a different point in time, within a different context & expecting them to think & respond as they did in the original interview/discussion is unreasonable. bit.ly/3o5Fe4c

Qualitative researchers: Run, don't walk, to read this article: Braun et al. (2024). “Being Really Confidently Wrong”: Qualitative Researchers’ Experiences of Methodologically Incongruent Peer Review Feedback. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-…

"Agency, as a Theme in Phenomenology" - new article out in the Springer Encyclopedia of Phenomenology (ed. Nicolas de Warren and Ted Toadvine). Looks like it's the first in the upcoming first print edition. DM me for a PDF if you don't have access!

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"Sample Size in Qualitative Research & the Risk of Relying on Saturation" - The danger of relying on saturation to establish sample size in #qualitative research is multifold, incl. obscuring data quality & latent context considerations #TQF bit.ly/2VVoZYW

Top 5 advances in medicine this week (🧵) 1. AI-designed snake anti-venoms These inhibit the 'three-finger toxins' that make the venom of snakes like cobras and mambas lethal - cheaper, with higher affinity and more scalability than current therapies nature.com/articles/s4158…

El doctorado no se trata de la tesis. Se trata de ti: una mente más grande, un espíritu templado en la lucha por entender. documents.uow.edu.au/content/groups…

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I—and everyone else in the world—am 100% sure that the sun will rise tomorrow. But I know also that in a few billion years the sun will blow up and there won’t be any more dawns in this solar system. Only mathematical deductions could tell me that. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Mario Bunge set out to build a comprehensive scientific philosophy. He discussed ontology, epistemology & semantics, and supported scientific realism, systemism, materialism, emergentism & humanism. This volume discusses his life & ideas. Free download: academia.edu/80432513/Mario…

This book by philosopher Abraham Kaplan on research in the social sciences is old. Yet it has a range & depth lacking in many recent methods textbooks. And it includes some classic distinctions, such as logic-in-use and reconstructed logic. Free download: ia800607.us.archive.org/29/items/in.er…

Chat Academia now offers Zotero integration. Connect your Zotero library with Chat Academia and use apps like ChatGPT and Claude to chat with papers. Here's how to do it: 1. Go to zotero[.]org and log in to your account. Click on your user name and select "Settings."

The Philosophy of the Social Sciences The chapters by well-known authors on key issues makes this Handbook a useful resource for philosophers and social scientists interested in the foundations of social sciences. Download: vdoc.pub/download/the-s…