Week 6 of my Research: Data and Analysis
I knew data analysis was going to be time-consuming. That is why i somehow managed to finish my interviews before October.
I have just been listening to our module three section about the relationship with data and analysis, and I feel relieved to hear that other people in my module are having similar experiences to mine.
I am just gonna use this blog once again as a reflective journal, and write down some (summarized) points of my week 6 thoughts:
౦ Listening to interviews more than once. That helped me
1- gain a deeper understanding of what interviewees meant in their answers
2- capturing new information that I did not consider extremely relevant at first
3- connecting between shared ideas and my personal thoughts
౦ Participants answers to my questions surprised me in certain aspects: they have been different from what I assumed / expected.
౦ In the interviews some participants brought up new ideas and theories that I did not consider to be so important: for those that are relevant to my practice I tried to educate myself through literature, to then decide wether they will be mentioned in my critical review, and how.
౦ Certain themes from data have been explored through literature, and they DID come up (as expected)
౦ It is satisfactory to analyze how participants agreed on certain theories but found different ways to articulate them.
౦ Hearing from other practitioner's experiences (as well as from previous studies) lead to self-reflection: perspectives and opinions in my mind are slightly shifting by being questioned multiple times.
౦ Instead of keeping all those ideas in my mind I write them down. I am in the process of spontaneous writing about recurring concepts and/or contradictions from my data, to then see where that leads, hopefully a well written analysis of my critical review.
౦ I am not scared of this research: actually to rephrase that.... I am a little scared but I am okay with it: reacting to unexpected things perhaps makes it more exciting!
Hi Laura, I am very pleased to hear how your research is going so far and well done for this! You are so engaged in this process and believe in a few months that would become very articulated and passionate presentation. I am also going through my phases and interviews more than once and in many things I am not quite surprised, maybe I was without expectation and just waited what will happen. I realized some new information regarding the flow, it does not has to be embodied through the movement, it can get the meaning in the words, writing, acting, breathing, even screaming or just being in the silence and still feel the currents of your vibration, passion and thoughts. Regarding your last sentence about the fear...usually people from movement, meditation, yoga would say contemplate on it, make friend with fear, embrace you enemy, and this sounds great, bust still in real life, with all other challenges by side this one is quite something and maybe sounds easy but still big job to achieve. However, I am still for the idea to fight, being a bit scared and let it go:))) good luck!
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