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Ideal-Type Analysis: A Qualitative Approach to Constructing Typologies
- Venue: Teams
- Start: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:00:45 BST
- End: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:30:52 BST
For September's QualSIG Data and Methods Group session, Dr Sally O’Keeffe, a Mental Health Research Fellow in the NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria, will provide a step-by-step guide of how to conduct an ideal type analysis, including examples of studies using this approach. Sally’s talk will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion.
Ideal type analysis is a qualitative method for analysing data to construct typologies in research. It is a flexible method that can be used with a diverse range of qualitative data sources, including interviews/focus group transcripts, case notes, field notes and observations. This approach has been used to make sense of complex datasets, including longitudinal data, mixed methods data, and data from multiple perspectives. Ideal type analysis involves sorting the cases in the dataset into clusters of similar cases. Each type, or grouping of participants, is formed through the systematic comparison of individual participants with each other. The approach is distinctive among qualitative methods, and offers something different to case-study or thematic approaches - it provides a means for the researcher to retain a focus on the individual participant’s experience, as well as on the patterns that exist across the dataset, and within and between groups in the dataset.
Wednesday 17th September, 12:00-13.30, Online on Teams - details sent upon registration
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