Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from Ligita et.al. in Qualitative Research. Title: From textual to visual: the use of concept mapping as an analytical tool in a grounded theory study DOI : https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794120965362 The authors present the distinctive experiences of the authors in utilizing concept mapping to facilitate the analytical process of theory generation they undertook when conducting a grounded theory study examining diabetes health education in an Indonesian context. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from Thurlow, Lisa in Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences. Title: Grounded theory and the PhD – notes for novice researchers DOI : https://doi.org/10.1108/JHASS-05-2020-0079 The authors aimed to to build an effective theory of sketch inhibition as along with a set of pedagogic tools for its management in higher education – sketch inhibition is defined as a phenomenon whereby the suffer feels or demonstrates a reluctance or inability to engage with the mark-making aspect of design ideation and development Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from AlOmeir et.al. published in Supportive Care in Cancer. Title: Adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy among breast cancer survivors: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of the qualitative literature using grounded theory DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-020-05585-9 The authors aimed to source, appraise, and synthesize data from existing qualitative studies to develop an in-depth explanatory model of non-adherence and discontinuation of hormonal medication among breast cancer survivors. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from Armour et.al. published in Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. Title: Paramedic-delivered teleconsultations: a grounded theory study DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s43678-021-00224-6 The authors aimed to explore paramedic perceptions of paramedic-delivered teleconsultations. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from Masood et.al. published in Empirical Software Engineering. Title: How agile teams make self-assignment work: a grounded theory study DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-020-09876-x Self-assignment, a self-directed method of task allocation in which teams and individuals assign and choose work for themselves, is considered one of the hallmark practices of empowered, self-organizing agile teams. Despite all the benefits it promises, agile software teams do not practice it as regularly as other agile practices such as iteration planning and daily stand-ups, indicating that it is likely not an easy and straighforward practice. There has been very little empirical research on self-assignment. This Grounded Theory study explores how self-assignment works in agile projects. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from Marzuki et.al. published in International Journal of Instruction. Title: Students' Critical Thinking Skills in Solving Mathematical Problems; A Systematic Procedure of Grounded Theory Study DOI : https://doi.org/10.29333/iji.2021.14431a The authors aim to to obtain a comprehensive representation of students' mathematical Critical Thinking (CT) abilities, based on the mathematical ability level. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from Tabong et.al. published in Reproductive Health. Title: Acceptability and stakeholders perspectives on feasibility of using trained psychologists and health workers to deliver school-based sexual and reproductive health services to adolescents in urban Accra, Ghana DOI : https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-018-0564-x The authors aim to assess the acceptability and stakeholders’ perspectives on the feasibility of using health workers and trained psychologists to provide school-based SRH services in Ghana. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from Scibetta and Carbonara published in Journal of Multicultural Discources. Title: Unveiling discourses on interculturality and identity construction in primary schools in Italy: a study based on translanguaging pedagogy DOI : https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2020.1768397 The authors aim to describe results drawn from a data corpus collected in a translanguaging-based research project named L’AltRoparlante, carried out since 2016 in four multilingual schools in Northern and Central Italy, in order to promote and support inclusive multilingual education Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from Carrier et al. published in Plos One. Title: Strategies to improve access to cognitive behavioral therapies for anxiety disorders: A scoping review DOI : https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264368 The authors aim to describe and classify the various strategies reported to improve access to CBT for anxiety disorders. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from Thompson et al. published in Behavioral Sciences. Title: Exploring Trauma and Resilience among NYS COVID-19 Pandemic Survivors DOI : https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12080249 The authors aim to explore the themes that emerged from the calls to give voice to the trauma that callers were reporting during the early phases of the pandemic, and the resilience they demonstrated as they engaged with the Helpline. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from AlOmeir et al. published in Supportive Care in Cancer. Title: Adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy among breast cancer survivors: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of the qualitative literature using grounded theory Permanent link : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-020-05585-9 The authors aim to source, appraise, and synthesize data from existing qualitative studies to develop an in- depth explanatory model of non-adherence and discontinuation of hormonal medication among breast cancer survivors. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from Crouchman et al. published in Journal of Advanced Nursing. Title: Nurses' and midwives' experiences and views about responding to out of work emergencies: A constructivist grounded theory study. Permanent link : https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15146 The authors aim to explore nurses' and midwives' experiences, views, perceptions and impact on their responses to out of work emergencies where first aid may be required. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from Markkanen et al. published in BMC Health Services Research. Title: “It changed everything”: The Safe Home Care qualitative study of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on home care aides, clients, and managers Permanent link : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-021-07076-x The authors aim to characterize qualitatively the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on three key home care stakeholders: clients, aides, and agency managers. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

I enjoyed this research and see myself in it, especially with avoidance behavior with social media. The way the research data was broken down helped me getting a better understanding in the root of the behavior as well as the outcomes of why some people including myself feel the way they do after engaging in the social media world. Thank you.

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from Zhang et al. published in Information Discovery and Delivery. Title: A study of the influencing factors of mobile social media fatigue behavior based on the grounded theory DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IDD-11-2019-0084 The authors discuss major influencing factors causing users’ mobile social media fatigue and divides them into three hierarchies, including causal factors, intermediary factors and outcome factors. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share a thesis from Atkins, Lucy. Title: Exploring teachers' professional development and digital literacy:a grounded theory study Permanent link: This thesis has taken a constructivist grounded theory approach to investigating how current professional development strategies support teachers’ digital literacy continuing professional development. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from Ligita et al. published in Qualitative Research. Title: From textual to visual: the use of concept mapping as an analytical tool in a grounded theory study DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794120965362 This article presents the distinctive experiences of the authors in utilizing concept mapping to facilitate the analytical process of theory generation they undertook when conducting a grounded theory study examining diabetes health education in an Indonesian context Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from McGinn, McColgan, Taylor published in TRAUMA, VIOLENCE, & ABUSE. Title:Male IPV Perpetrator’s Perspectives on Intervention and Change: A Systematic Synthesis of Qualitative Studies DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1524838017742167 This article aims to understand the change process by analyzing perpetrator's perspectives on intervention. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, I would like to share an article from Gerber, Hayes and Bryant published in Palliative Medicine. Title:‘It all depends!’: A qualitative study of preferences for place of care and place of death in terminally ill patients and their family caregivers DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216319845794 This article aims to understand how terminally ill patients and their family caregivers make decisions about preferred place of care and place of death. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Good idea to highlight papers that have utilised CAQDAS, and qualitative research more generally, with a focus on improving research practices! While I think that the procedure, as put forward by the authors, has merit for general QDA, I found the motivation for the described procedure a little confusing. I get that the authors found many people referencing grounded theory did not stick to the required grounded theory procedures, but this is an argument against the practice of incorrectly citing what you're doing rather than a justification in itself for new procedures. I think the authors should have pointed out that what many researchers are completing is QDA and not grounded theory. This is what Glaser has railed against for ages and is why "the oftcited grounded theory framework poorly fits many features of contemporary sociological interview studies". I guess I felt that throughout the article there was a sense that grounded theory procedures were being presented as inadequate in some way when, in fact, it is simply that most people are conducting thematic analysis and not grounded theory. This is where it became a little more murky for me, with the below quotes as example: “Based on our informal discussions with contemporary researchers using large-scale interview data, it appears that few actually implement the unfolding data collection suggested by a grounded theory approach: theoretical sampling toward conceptual saturation” “It may be the case that a priori categories actually have no importance to respondents” As a result, they are not conducting grounded theory. The constant references to grounded theory made it feel as though the proposed approach was being presented as an alternative approach when conducting grounded theory, rather than an alternative approach to general QDA. The proposed approach also seems to have a more positivist/scientific flavour too (not necessarily a problem but should be acknowledged). With a view to construct validity and a priority on output over any truly 'grounded' theory-one based on constant comparative analysis that is fit-for-purpose: "Without a clear procedure for validating that the argued relationships are truly grounded in the data, interview researchers risk accusations that their work is not rigorous" "The process of reducing data down from full transcripts, to indexed extracts, and finally to grouped analytic codes allowed her to judge whether she had applied uniform qualitative criteria across the sample, increasing reliability or construct validity" "we suggest approaching the application of analytic codes one research question or paper at a time" “Analytic codes represent the concepts to explore in a single paper or book chapter and integrate emergent findings with what is known from the literature” Additionally, I'm not sure that the proposed approach doesn't undermine the claim that what is developed in the end is actually an emergent theory. Where data is immediately aligned to preconceived notions, not subjected to constant comparison, and where a priori assumptions or themes are dealt with in a way that takes priority over what is important to participants (and participants' own meanings), you run the risk of findings being labelled as 'ventriloquism'. Finally, while the authors did acknowledge research concerning the (lack of) additional utility of larger samples (more than ~15) in qualitative research such as grounded theory, they still seemed to use the ubiquity of larger samples as justification for procedural change: “Based on our own experience working with large-scale interview data, we outlined a three-step process that flips traditional grounded theory on its head to take advantage of modern QDA technology” Again, why invoke grounded theory when it isn't what you're actually conducting? Ultimately, I can see the utility in the proposed procedure as a form of QDA that would be well suited to mining data for themes in support of a particular hypothesis. For hypothesis creation (a la grounded theory) it does not seem as relevant. As such, the constant referencing of grounded theory, along with the limited application of its procedures within the bulk of qualitative research, represented a distraction from the presentation of an otherwise potentially useful approach. Hope this doesn't seem like too much of a rant! Looking forward to more content.

Hello everyone, For the kick off I would like to share an article from Nicole M. Deterding and Mary C. Waters published in Sociological Methods and Research. Title : Flexible Coding of In-depth Interviews: A Twenty-first-century Approach DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124118799377 In their study Deterding & Waters argue that common practices of interview studies deviate from grounded theory framework in various ways. Based on their analysis on published articles, they suggests ways to improve research quality via outlining steps in data organization and analysis to efficiently using CAQDAS. Please feel free to share your opinion. Regards,

Hello everyone, Each week I will be sharing a published article with the Nvivo Research Club Community. These scholarly works will be selected for one or more of reasons below: Author(s)'s reflection of how they utilized Nvivo in their research. Author(s)'s opinions regarding Nvivo and/or CAQDAS tools usage for a single or multiple methodological approach in qualitative research field. Author(s)'s perspective about the strengths and the limitations of Nvivo for their research. The goals of this initiative are: Providing resources for the members of research clubs to allow them to review published practices of Nvivo utilization in their research areas. Initiating a discussion between the research club members to share their opinions and questions about the shared article or their own work. Allowing research club members to find/meet other researchers in their area of study. Encouraging collaboration between researchers. Please engage, share and let everyone learn from each other. Regards,