Lecture Notes

LECTURE 1 (August 30^th): Practicalities of the course. What is qualitative research? What types of qualitative research will this course cover? Lecture1.html

LECTURE 4 (20^th September) (With Tina Blegind Jensen) Interviews (your assignment 2, interviews in general (notes: Lecture4.html), the laddering technique (slides: The laddering technique_Tina.ppt  and in PDF: The laddering technique_Tina.pdf ).

LECTURE 5 (27^th September)
Continued discussion of ethnography (the papers from last week + three weeks back), discuss limitations and pitfalls of ethnography (Forsythe and Zuiderent). Practical tips on how to do fieldwork drawing on ethnogoraphic techniques (the suggestions from Harper + Beyer&Holzblatt will be presented). Plenary discussion of the groups’ draft proposals. Lecture5.html

SIXTH LECTURE ( 4^th of October)
Grounded Theory (Thoresen, Strauss et al.). Brief overview over some of the other types of qualitative studies (Ethnomethodology, discourse/conversation analysis). Introduction to Action Research.  Discuss third and fourth assignment. Lecture6.html

SEVENTH LECTURE (11^th of October)

Action Research, in general and in IS research, common criticisms etc. Second hour: Evaluation (of the course) and discussions. Third hour: Master project description and discussions (Miriam). Notes from AR lecture: Lecture7.html

EIGHT LECTURE (18^th of October)

How do we establish knowledge claims within the interpretive paradigm? Processes of analysis and interpretation. We will look back on papers we discussed earlier (Markus, Bardram&Bossen) and Sahay&Walsham.Generalizations from interpretative case studies. Reflexivity in analysis (Schultze): Theory-driven versus empirically grounded analysis. Third hour: Master project description and discussions (Shazia)(Presentation:Lecture8.pdf )

NINTH LECTURE (25^th of October)

Quality in qualitative research (Klein and Myers' criteria). We will discuss again the three papers that you've read in a "detailed way" (Markus, Bardram and Bossen, Sahay and Walsham). Notes: Lecture9.html  Guest lecture by Håkon Ursin Steen: Presentation of Yin's classic book on case studies

NO LECTURE  on 1. November

TENTH LECTURE (8. November)

How to write up research (group report, Master/PhD thesis). What is the content and structure, what goes into the different chapters etc. + referencing. (Presentation: WritingLecture.pdf).

Vi diskuterte også noen norske begreper  på temaene i kurset.(Mange ord er ganske like):

• Kvalitativ og kvantitativ forskning
  
• Positivistisk, fortolkende og kritisk tilnærming
  
• Typer av kvalitative metoder: Etnografi, case-studier, aksjonsforskning, ”grounded theory”, etnometodologi, konversasjonsanalyse (evt. samtaleanalyse), diskursanalyse.
• Teknikker: Deltagende eller passive observasjoner. Strukturerte, semi-strukturerte eller åpne intervjuer, fokusgruppe-intervjuer. Transkribere, transkripsjon.
• Longitudinale studier (studier som går over lengre tid). Komparative eller sammenlignende studier. Sample = utvalg.

ELEVENTH LECTURE (15. November)

Submission of final group reports.  Presentations of group work from gorups 1 - 6 (15 minutes + discussion)

TWELFTH LECTURE (22 november)

Presentations of group work (groups 7 - 10).  Summing up the course, preparing for the exam (see some information here: http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/INF5220/h06/AboutExam.html).