by Claire Moran | Jul 20, 2025 | Blog, Systems of Meaning
In qualitative research, your question isn’t just a starting point—it’s a commitment.It commits you to a way of seeing, a way of asking, and a way of interpreting. It also commits you to particular layers of meaning: whether your focus is on the inner world, the...
by Claire Moran | Jul 6, 2025 | Blog, Systems of Meaning
In qualitative research, we’re not just asking what happens—we’re asking how people make sense of what happens, and how we can interpret people’s experience with respect to the broader social context. To do this well, we need to understand that meaning is not...
by Claire Moran | Jun 29, 2025 | Writing as Analysis
In qualitative research, analysis is often described as a layered process—starting with descriptive codes and building toward complex, interpretive themes. Yet too often, we think of writing as something linear: once we analyse, we write. But effective qualitative...
by Claire Moran | Jun 23, 2025 | Claire Moran News
Aguilar Alonso, R., Walsh, K., van Leent, L., Williams, K. E., & Moran, C. (2025). Relationships and sexuality education for primary school students: results of a pre-post intervention study. Sex Education, 1-18. Blackmore, B., Moran, C., & Wigginton, B....
by Claire Moran | Jun 17, 2025 | Writing as Analysis
Let me start with a confession: I find writing hard. Not in a romantic “tortured artist” way, but in a deep, frustrating, occasionally confidence-wrecking way. For years, I believed I had to fully understand what I wanted to say before I could write anything at all....
