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 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....
by Claire Moran | May 18, 2025 | Thematic Analysis: Legacy and Living Practice
Introduction In the nearly two decades since Braun and Clarke’s 2006 paper transformed the qualitative landscape, thematic analysis (TA) has not stood still. The clarity and accessibility of that original framework gave researchers a powerful tool, but also...
by Claire Moran | May 5, 2025 | Thematic Analysis: Legacy and Living Practice
IntroductionIn a remarkable achievement, Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke’s 2006 paper ‘Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology’ has joined the academic pantheon: it’s now ranked among the top ten most cited scholarly papers of all time, and third most cited of the...
