what choices do healthcare professional make to pursue postgraduate study?
Order Description
mini qualitative study.
1. Introduction. A concise account of the background to and rationale for the research, drawing on relevant literature to show why your study is important and how it relates to existing research in the field.
2. Aims. Your research question(s) or aims and objectives.
3. Method. This section should contain sub sections as follows: Methodological approach. Discussion of your methodological approach with reference to the research methods literature. You need to explain and justify your chosen approach and briefly outline the theoretical and epistemological underpinning of this approach. Participants. Who took part in the study? Procedure. What were the steps taken in conducting the study? How was the study carried out? Ethical considerations. A brief account of the ethical issues that emerged in the course of the study and how they were addressed. Analysis. How were the data analysed? You should also show an awareness of the limitations of the methodology and design of the study.
4. Results. An in-depth analysis of some of the data focusing on two or three key themes. It is not necessary to analyse all of the transcripts in depth. You may choose to select parts of the transcripts relevant to your chosen research question/aims and objectives, and/or a sub sample of the transcripts in order to enable you to undertake a detailed, in-depth analysis. You should devote the most space to this section. You should illustrate your presentation of results with short excerpts from the interview transcripts.
5. Discussion and Conclusions. Summarise the results of the study and discuss what was found in the context of the literature. Return to the studies discussed in the introduction. In the conclusion draw out the implications of the findings for the stakeholders, including policy and/or practice implications. Include recommendations for future research in the light of the findings.
6. Appendix. An appendix with an example of your approach to data analysis must be included (e.g. a coded interview together with codes used).
7. References. Must be in the required style