Introducing Qualitative Longitudinal Research: From Design to Analysis (online)

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Presenters:

Anna Tarrant is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Innovation in Fatherhood Research and the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship study ‘Following Young Fathers Further’ (FYFF, 2020-27, £1.7 million) at the University of Lincoln. The Centre advances knowledge and expertise in family research and associated fields with a view to influencing academic, policy, and practice agendas both locally and (inter)nationally. She is widely published, with international expertise in fathering, poverty, and family support, and has pioneered innovative methodologies including longitudinal co-creation, qualitative longitudinal research and qualitative secondary analysis. 

Kahryn Hughes is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds and Director of the Timescapes Archive. She has been a Senior Fellow of the National Centre for Research Methods and is internationally recognised for consolidating and advancing methods of Qualitative Secondary Analysis (QSA). She has formulated and led the brand-new field of international Qualitative Secondary Analysis (iQSA) with an international team from Denmark. She has engaged in twenty years of qualitative longitudinal research focused on the longitudinal and intergenerational dynamics of place-based poverty, through which she has developed novel approaches to temporal methods. She has been active in developing infrastructures to support the archiving and reuse of Qualitative Longitudinal data. Kahryn has an enduring interest in questions concerning time and temporality and is Co-Lead of the Horizons Network for Time at the University of Leeds.

Key resources:

Neale, B (2021) The Craft of Qualitative Longitudinal Research. London: Sage.

Neale, B. (2021) ‘Fluid enquiry, complex causality, policy processes: Making a difference with qualitative longitudinal research’ Social Policy and Society. Open access www.doi.org/10.1017/S1474746421000142

Suggested further reading:

Calman, L et al (2013) ‘Developing longitudinal qualitative designs: Lessons learned and recommendations for health services research’ BMC Medical Research Methodology 13(14): 1-10.

Emmel, ND. and Hughes, K. (2010) ‘Recession, it’s all the same to us son’: the longitudinal experience (1999-2010) of deprivation, in Rosalind Edwards and Sarah Irwin, Lived experience through economic downturn in Britain—perspectives across time and across the life-course, Twenty-First Century Society, 5: (2): 119-124.

Emmel ND and Hughes, K. (2014) Vulnerability, Intergenerational Exchange and the Conscience of Generations, in Understanding families over time: Research and policy (eds) Janet Holland and Rosalind Edwards, Studies in Family and Intimate Life Series, Palgrave Macmillan.

Farr, J. & Nizza, J. (2019) ‘Longitudinal Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (LIPA): A review of studies & methodological considerations’ Qualitative Research in Psychology, 16 (2) 199-217. 

Grossoehme, D. and Lipstein, E. (2016) ‘Analysing longitudinal qualitative data: The application of trajectory and recurrent cross-sectional approaches, BMC Research Notes, 9: 136 

Elliott, J. (2005) Using Narrative in Social Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. London: Sage. 

Hughes, K., and Tarrant, A. (2023) Men, Families and Poverty: Tracing the longitudinal trajectories of place-based hardship. Palgrave Macmillan

Hughes, J., Sykes, G., Hughes, K., O’Reilly, M., Sutton, C., Goodwin, J., Karim, K (2021)From gateways to multilinear connections: A qualitative longitudinal investigation of the relationships between vaping and smoking among adolescent users. International Journal of Drug Policy.

Lewis, J. (2007) ‘Analysing QL research in evaluations’ Social Policy and Society, 6 (4): 545-56.

Neale, B. and Davies, L (2016) ‘Becoming a young breadwinner? The education, employment and training trajectories of young fathers’ Social Policy and Society, 15 (1): 85-98.

Neale, B. and Tarrant, A. (2024) The Dynamics of Young Fatherhood: Understanding the Parenting Journeys and Supporting Needs of Young Fathers, Bristol: Policy Press.

Neale, B. and Hughes, K. (2020) Data Management Planning: A Practical Guide for Qualitative Longitudinal Researchers, Timescapes Archive, University of Leeds. https://timescapes-archive.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/47/2020/12/Data-Management-Planning-2020.pdf

Neale, B., Hughes, K., Blyth, G., Proudfoot, R., Phillips, B, (2017) Depositing Qualitative Longitudinal Data in the Timescapes Archive: A Practical Guide for Researchers. University of Leeds Institutional Repository. 

O’Connor, H. and Goodwin, J. (2010) ‘Utilising data from a lost sociological study’, Qualitative Research, 10 (3) 283-98

Pettigrew, A. (1997) ‘What is a processual analysis?’ Scandinavian J. of Management, 13 (4): 337-48. 

Pinnock, H. et al (2011) ‘Living and dying with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease’ BMJ Online: 342

Ritchie, J. and Lewis, J. (eds) (2003) Qualitative Research Practice. London: Sage.

Saldana, J. (2003) Longitudinal Qualitative Research. Walnut Creek CA: Alta Mira Press. 

SmithBattle, L. et al (2018) ‘A methodological review of qualitative longitudinal research in nursing’, Nursing Inquiry, 25 (4): e12248.  

Tarrant, A. (2021) Fathering and Poverty: Uncovering Men’s Participation  in Low-Income Family Life, Bristol: Policy Press.

Tarrant, A., and Hughes, K. (2019). Qualitative Secondary Analysis: Building Longitudinal Samples to Understand Men’s Generational Identities in Low Income Contexts. Sociology, 53(3), 538-553.

Thomson, R. (2007) ‘The qualitative longitudinal case history: Practical, methodological and ethical reflections’, Social Policy and Society, 6 (4): 571-82.

Wenger, C. (1999) ‘Advantages gained by combining qualitative and quantitative data in a longitudinal study’ Journal of Aging Studies, 13 (4): 369-76.

Worth, N. (2011) ‘Evaluating life maps as a versatile method for life course geographers’ Area, 43 (4): 405-12.