thematic analysis | how to discuss your themes (5 tips and 5 mistakes)

How to present the results of thematic analysis? I list 5 tips for how to discuss themes in your results chapter
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Time stamps:
00:00-00:54 Introduction
00:54-03:37 Tip 1
03:37-06:38 Tip 2
06:38-11:35 Tip 3
11:35-15:51 Tip 4
15:51-19:59 Tip 5

[@qualitativeresearcher]

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[@AA-dx7fd]

hi, how can we develop relationships among the themes developed? I hope u can do a video on that, thanks

[@drperahmurtaza4142]

Sir I have one question please let us clear about that why we use codes and quotation in qualitative research And an other one is that what is main difference in themes and coding

[@qualitativeresearcher]

@@drperahmurtaza4142 hi, I explain these things in several videos. I explain how coding is necessary to make sense of the data and to develop themes. There are several videos, for example the series on "how codes become themes" , in which I address these issues more or less

[@syedmahmoodalishah3439]

I am nowdays passing through my dissertation research and your videos are absolutely wonderful for my guidance throughout my research. Really appreciated.

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[@qualitativeresearcher]

You are so welcome! I'm really glad that you are finding this helpful, hopefully other videos on this channel will be of use too!

[@davidhughes4489]

This clarified more for me in 20 mins than hours of tutorials at my university,,,many thanks

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Thanks! Glad to hear that!

[@aouititrabelsiamal6399]

Thank you so much doc for your help. I'm a Tunisian student, My supervisor asked me to use the thematic analysis in my internship report without providing me with tips or explanations. YOU saved my life.. I was following your videos for a few months and my work was perfect. You really deserve to be mentioned in the "Thanking" part of my report. Heartfelt thanks Dr

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Glad it was helpful!

[@oluwatobikolawole6188]

Thank you Dr Kriukow, your contents are always helpful - very helpful infact.

[@Luke672]

Thank you for posting this I have found it really helpful. I am currently writing one of my qualitative chapters of my PhD thesis and my supervisor has said although I have found some great themes I am too descriptive, your videos have helped me move forward

[@aleelecturer]

I am about to start writing up my findings chapter and these tips were extremely useful. Thank you for posting this video

[@andrewpaulsen3141]

Thanks Dr Kriukow this really helped my understand it better.

[@kilaniolumo7176]

Great video !!.....well structured and well presented.

[@thandilemtirara5884]

Thanks for this video, this my first attempt at research and therefore I am very nervous about presenting my work. I am doing a thematic analysis on online articles

[@anj1134]

Great tips again! Since you had already done the video on the ''presentation of thematic analysis results'' , I was really hoping that you speak about how we discuss our themes and develop our arguments. Thanks for this.

[@qualitativeresearcher]

will definitely consider this feedback, thank you!

[@BandyKiki]

An J, I was hoping so too.

[@malulekedzunisanimillicent4534]

This is very helpful, thank you Doc

[@mnfalhajar]

Bless you, I hope the next video provide an example of a good themes are they like, and how to refer previous section at discussion.

[@giftlungu3948]

Great tips Doc

[@jenniferhiggins3669]

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[@qualitativeresearcher]

Glad you like them, and glad to hear they have such therapeutic effect too!

[@unwishingpointless]

Tip 5 is GOLD! love it!

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Thank you!

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[@qualitativeresearcher]

Thank you Emilia, it was great talking to you!

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[@kams410]

Thank you for this video, it helped a lot in reviewing my results!

[@qualitativeresearcher]

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I have seen many other videos on the similar topic but videos from this channel have tremendously helped me a lot. Thanks a lot

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Glad to hear that, thank you!

[@baderrimawi8557]

I like your simple language in illustration. Perfect for novice researchers. Thank you.

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Thank you that's the best compliment you could make - my goal is to specifically use simple and plain language to talk about complex terms !

[@omersjjd]

Blessed to view this video at right time!! I am discussing my first theme and by chance I looked at my youtube homepage and found this. Really helpful tips - I realized the importance 'my voice' in analysis. Million thanks

[@qualitativeresearcher]

I'm glad that you liked it, and that KZbin did a good job recommending this to you at the right time! :) There are a few other videos on my channel that can be relevant to your situation too

[@katemi420]

Excellent explanation and well- structured videos, on the whole ❤ Great job!

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Glad you liked it! thank you!

[@helenesi4930]

Thank you for this video! very helpful!

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Glad it was helpful!

[@barnabyijt5012]

Extremely helpful for my Developmental Psychology thesis, the easiest to follow logical, concise yet well explained advice, thank you!

[@qualitativeresearcher]

You're very welcome! Glad that I could help!

[@ellatolley7812]

So helpful thank you

[@Hahahanohahaha1875]

I am a student doing Master of Public Policy by research here at the University of Papua New Guinea. I am doing a qualitative research. I watched must of youtube regarding qualitative data analysis and presentation. Dr, it really help.

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Glad that you're finding this useful! And thank you for taking the time to share this with me, I really appreciate it!

[@libbygledhill2181]

Thanks so much for this! It is helping me tremendously in understanding how to discuss the information for my thesis from my focus groups.

[@qualitativeresearcher]

You're very welcome!

[@Dadusb1]

Thanks for this brilliant session.

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@DreamsAreForWeaving]

Hi Dr Kriukow just wanted to say a huge thank you!! Your videos helped me so much last year when I was completing my MSc dissertation. I was able to really understand qualitative analysis, thematic analysis and coding. I watched your videos like a kid practicing for a recital. 🤣 I gained a distinction 😁😁😀 All the best!!!!! ♥

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Wow this is great, thank you for sharing this ! :) And a distinction, wow - congratulations!!! :)

[@datagus]

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[@qualitativeresearcher]

thank you Amara!

[@marcohermoso6109]

Thank you so much for this informative video. It really helped me to start crafting my chapter 4. This video is a comprehensive one. ;)

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Glad it was helpful!

[@joelgeorge8192]

I've literally just watched the videos on your playlist to prepare for my thematic analysis XD. I've found some good advice and it's saved me a lot of time!

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Glad to hear that Joel, and good luck with the analysis!

[@mathandimotubatse6609]

Thanks for such detail explanation of chapter 4🎉

[@qualitativeresearcher]

you're welcome!

[@lalairviana2662]

Thanks!

[@qoqananimkhwanazi8263]

Thank you Doc. Do you have a video on the analysis section of a qualitative research paper?

[@duongmylinhh]

very useful, many thanks.

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jennieambi4527]

Hello thank you for this

[@eazycheetah]

As if you're presenting your thematic analysis to Forrest Gump. Perfect!

[@qualitativeresearcher]

lol :) This is the point of teaching (although unfortunately, many teachers do not do it)

[@ZahidJatoi1972]

You explain things clearly and your examples are really helping. Could you please share a video regarding how we present the theme and sub-theme?

[@qualitativeresearcher]

thank you for the kind words. I do have a video about presenting results of thematic analysis

[@davyzeng]

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[@qualitativeresearcher]

Fingers crossed! Good luck! :)

[@bahrihind4557]

Thank you. Please what difference between thematic analysis and content analysis?

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[@qualitativeresearcher]

nobody did but thank you, I'm supporting Usyk :) also, I was born in Ukraine

[@DungLe-iw1tn]

Starting my first knowledge of qualitative study through your videos. Thank you so much for the informative and attractive videos. Also, do you have any tips to create a diagram to show how themes/subthemes related to each other? I am struggling with that

[@qualitativeresearcher]

I was never good with visualizations, but there is a lot of flexibility when it comes to that, you cna use MS Word to create diagrams, or a platform I recommend, draw.io

[@ShazWag]

Thanks for this, it was very helpful. Could you also provide examples of well presented themes please?

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Thank you for the feedback - I do have some other videos about presenting qualitative results, where I share some more examples

[@mantuza7]

Hi Doc. Thank you for your befits, the help a lot. When adding my voice, must I refer to my literature review /theory framework or should I reserve that for chapter 5 ?

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Although you are not expecting to really "Discuss" your findings in the Results chapter, it is still expected to have a reasonable amount of "your voice" there. This does not necessarily mean discussing the findings, but just helping the reader navigate through the chapter and make sense of your results, that's what I mean by your voice in this particular chapter

[@faithnte5324]

Thank you so much for this helpful video, what do you think of conceptual framework. If I didnt use during the research, can I come up with mine at the end of my research?

[@qualitativeresearcher]

you can, don't Have to, but you can if you feel that you want to do it based on your findings

[@sundayeleyinde8742]

Very expository. Thanks

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Welcome!

[@sam-bw2xm]

Your videos are extremely helpful, thank you. I am currently conducting a study and I was wondering if I can do thematic analysis based only on scenes from films (no transcripts that is, just observations)?

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Absolutely! it can be performed on pretty much any kind of data, including observations or scenes from films as in your case (in which case I still think that these scenes, or whatever they describe, would ultimately be labelled in some way - so essentially coded, then these codes would help you develop themes - although in this case the line between codes and themes would be pretty vague - but don't worry about this

[@sam-bw2xm]

@@qualitativeresearcher thanks for helping, really appreciated

[@Tru.Creations]

Hi Dr. Kriukow, as a novice researcher and PhD student I really appreciate your videos. Can you please share your thoughts and experiences with unobtrusive observation? I am having a challenge understanding the ethical and consent factors because few articles speak to it. I interpret it as being intrusive and encroaching. Please share your thoughts. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Hi and thank you for the comment - I am not too familiar with observation, but I recently talked to Dr Huayi Huang about this, there is a video in which we discuss observations as a method. Otherwise, I will also consider recording a video about this, once I do some catching up on the topic myself ! :)

[@ralphpessers]

Liked and subscribed. Suffered writers block for weeks on my msc thesis after finishing my coding/thematic framework. Worked with interviews and focus groups and now made decision to apply the two provinces as differentiator between data and themes. But one question though. My thematic framework is closely linked to my interview/focus group topic structure and even the literature review, is this good or bad?

[@qualitativeresearcher]

if it is relevant to your study and helps to answer the research questions, then there is a chance that it is good

[@bluebustamante6372]

Hi, doc! Do I need to mention my literature when I am discussing themes?

[@qualitativeresearcher]

In the discussion - yes, in the Findings - no literature

[@Pari-ul6wb]

is it okay to analyse linguistic features of a quote? Like to say someone's use of specific words implies certain things? And would you recommend combining the analysis and discussion or keeping them separate? Please help!

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Yes, you can do both (analyze the content of what they say, as well as How they say it), and if your university allows it, you can have the results and discussion together. I like to do it this way, but this does depend on the university guidelines

[@its_dan_17]

hello, sir! can i merge the paragraphs for more than one major themes in discussion?

[@qualitativeresearcher]

I think it may be difficult to discuss more than one major theme in one paragraph to be honest, but of course I am not familiar with your exact context and data, so if you are doing this the right way, then why not

[@kallanaBr]

What happens when a code can be placed in 2 different themes, e.g.: 'enjoying poker games with friends' - being poker under leisure activities and friends under the importance of getting together with friends. Can we duplicate this label? Please, answer this message, I am in the middle of a project!! Thank you for such a great content!

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Yes, I addressed it in another video. You can code the same content, and same quotes as more than 1 code/theme. This happens a lot. You can even (although this is not that common, it IS possible) have the same exact sub-theme under 2 themes. Let's say that Anxiety is both a result of encounters with Native English speakers and a Reason why someone (a migrant) avoids these encounters, I may have 2 themes "Reasons for avoiding encounters with NES" and "Effects of encounters with NES" and then have ANXIETY under each of these 2 themes. Hope this helps

[@kallanaBr]

Aww absolutely! And on time, I am still working on the data. Thanks a million, you saved the day!!! ✅✅😀

[@marymulengawincierz1899]

hey doc but i think in grounded theory long quotes are important, what do you think?

[@qualitativeresearcher]

There is no rule for how long a quote should be but in any case you should try to be reasonable. It is ok to have a longer quote every now and then, but not too often , and also make sure to guide teh reader through the quote (explain what it contains, why it's here, what to pay attention to, etc.)

[@pedrorahon4769]

Hi sir the audio are quite low would it be possible to put the mic closer since my volume is already high but still your voice comes very soft. I am benefiting a lot from the video, thanks.

[@gilamonsta5123]

Yes Doctor, the volume is quite low. However helpful, yes! Thank you for your valuable time and providing us this reference material.

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Will do next time, not sure why this turned out so quiet ...

[@deborahbradley4239]

So for my university mini ta report we have a separate section for analysis and discussion. So the analysis section is strictly for reporting the evidence of themes via quotes from the data. But for the discussion, how do I relate my themes back to the existing research in this area? And should I relate back again to my dataset or stick to the themes and relate just them to existing research?? I'm so confused and have zero guidance for this section...

[@qualitativeresearcher]

I have a video about the discussion chapter. There will be a bit of both - you will talk about the themes and the results that you presented in the results (or your "analysis") chapter, and relate them back tothe literature that you outlined in the literature review chapter

[@deborahbradley4239]

@@qualitativeresearcher thanks so much for taking the time to reply. I'll look for your other video. This is perhaps the most difficult piece of work yet in terms of content to include (and a distinctly vague set of student notes!)

[@maha3287]

what i have to do after making the codes with chat gpt? and making my paragraphs ? Can you tell me how to get my graphs?

[@qualitativeresearcher]

I have videos about using ChatGPT for coding

[@janeroxas8973]

Hi Doc, what if I have 5 interview questions? Should I make thematic analysis for each question? Or just one thematic analysis covering all that 5 questions?

[@qualitativeresearcher]

It is best to analyze the data together, not to do it for individual questions. Hope this helps!

[@janeroxas8973]

Thank you Doc, it will help me a lot! 😊

[@shalikarobie3563]

@@qualitativeresearcher so is it bad if you do a thematic analysis for 5 questions and then do an additional analysis of all the questions collectively?

[@umanathsharma7262]

Would you please write to me the way to cite this video?

[@bee42Sad]

Do you have any tips on building confidence in your research? I’m struggling to feel that my work is of value and not stating the obvious.

[@qualitativeresearcher]

I'm sure it is not. Look, even if we conduct a study that replicates another study, and the findings are similar/the same, there is always value in it, because we are adding more evidence to the existing evidence, thus helping strengthen the claims the existing studies made. There is always value, like I said - even if you think about the literature review chapter/section alone - the fact that you have it means there is an up-to-date review of the topics you are investigating. This, again, is very important and may help others (once your study is published or just finished and available online)

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Feel confident in your research, remember why you started it and be persistent. Even if you do not plan to publish it in the "traditional" (i.e. boring and extremely difficult), academic way, you can use bits of it and publish blog articles that others may find useful

[@leelaguna5631]

I love this but will u show an dxmple on screen? So i can understand more

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Thank you, I will make sure to do this next time!

[@vasia-aliki.zisimou]

Does anybody know if qualitative themes don't match with the literature? How am I going to support them in the discussion chapter?

[@qualitativeresearcher]

There is no rule as to whether your findings should be the same or different from previous findings, and none of these is the "ideal" outcome - if they are the same, you can argue that your findings support the previous findings, and if they are different, you can argue that your study contributed new knowledge to the topic

[@rotimiyagba1697]

How many themes can i have?

[@qualitativeresearcher]

there is no specific number. You could have 1 or 2, but also 5 or more - as long as they help you exaplin the results

[@bartooma]

The voice in this video has a problem