{"id":1107,"date":"2018-08-03T13:17:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T13:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-trials-research\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2022-04-13T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T13:59:10","slug":"author-interview-with-dr-aimee-grant-doing-excellent-social-research-with-documents-practical-examples-and-guidance-for-qualitative-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-trials-research\/author-interview-with-dr-aimee-grant-doing-excellent-social-research-with-documents-practical-examples-and-guidance-for-qualitative-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Interview With Dr Aimee Grant &#8211; Doing EXCELLENT Social Research With Documents: Practical Examples And Guidance For Qualitative Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/people\/view\/123106-grant-aimee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Aimee Grant<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-trials-research\/about-us\/qualitative-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre for Trials Research qualitative team<\/a> talks here about her upcoming book on social research published by Routledge,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Doing-Excellent-Social-Research-with-Documents-Practical-Examples-and\/Grant\/p\/book\/9781138038660\">Doing\u00a0EXCELLENT social research with documents: Practical examples and guidance for qualitative researchers<\/a>,\u00a0which is available for pre-order with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Doing-Excellent-Social-Research-with-Documents-Practical-Examples-and\/Grant\/p\/book\/9781138038660\">20% discount using the code:\u00a0FLR40.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Get a free chapter of Dr Grant&#8217;s book<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-trials-research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/499\/2018\/08\/Chapter-8-Aimee-Grant-Doing-EXCELLENT-Social-Reserach-With-Documents-Chapter-8.pdf\">Chapter 8 &#8211; Dr Aimee Grant &#8211; Doing EXCELLENT Social Research With Documents Chapter 8<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What do you mean or understand by \u2018document analysis\u2019?<\/h2>\n<p>Documentary analysis is when a document, like a government policy statement, newspaper article or medical notes, are used in a research project.\u00a0 There isn\u2019t one type of documentary analysis, and a whole range of analysis techniques can be used.\u00a0 At the most basic this would be counting how many times something happens (such as a particular word, or something being included in images), all the way through to considering why a particular word was used, and what that might mean about the writer\u2019s intention.\u00a0 Within a trials context, we can use documentary analysis in lots of ways, including analysing diary content to understand how an intervention is delivered in real life (as in ASSIST+Frank and Mam-Kind), or through observations which include the use of patient medical records (as in PUMA).<\/p>\n<h2>Why is documentary analysis so important?<\/h2>\n<p>Our society is full of writing \u2013 a lot of people have to keep written records in their jobs, the government creates huge amounts of paperwork, and the majority of the population have at least one social media account.\u00a0 We write more now than ever before, and much of this is available to researchers to help them understand society, and try to draw attention to or solve social problems.<\/p>\n<h2>Why is this a problem now?<\/h2>\n<p>Because there is so much written content available these days, and because documentary analysis is cheap and able to fit in around other commitments, many social scientists do research with documents.<\/p>\n<h2>Why was the literature sparse in this area?<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure, but the same two or three books have been recommended to students for over 15 years.\u00a0 These days there is more of a critical stance towards reflection in qualitative researchers, accordingly it is necessary to update the lessons in these texts.<\/p>\n<h2>What gaps does the book help to fill?<\/h2>\n<p>The new book builds on the lessons in the current documentary analysis books.\u00a0 It fills two gaps.\u00a0 First, it expands documentary analysis into new areas \u2013 considering social media content and visual methods (the Health and Wellbeing in Pregnancy project at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-trials-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre for Trials Research<\/a> is described in Chapter 8, which will be freely available through gold open access).\u00a0 Second, it presents six case studies describing the documentary analysis research process from selecting research questions and data, through to showing each stage of the analysis process. \u00a0In each of the chapters a different analysis strategy is presented, including thematic analysis, discourse analysis and content analysis.<\/p>\n<h2>What excited or interested you most about this book and project?<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019ve been grappling with documents in research projects since my undergraduate dissertation.\u00a0 The research methods literature for interviewing and observations was quite easy to translate into practical steps, but I found it difficult to understand exactly what I should be doing with the documents I had collected. \u00a0These challenges continued in my masters and doctoral research, which also used documents as data\u00a0alongside interview and ethnographic data. \u00a0More recently, I\u2019d discussed this issue with colleagues and found that other people experienced these challenges, or those supervising students felt that they didn\u2019t have a good source to direct them to.\u00a0 In the social sciences, publishing books is much more important for your career than in medicine, so I decided to submit a proposal to a publisher, and was very surprised when they said yes.<\/p>\n<h2>What do you hope this could do for the reader?<\/h2>\n<p>My hope is that this book will make it much easier for researchers to understand how to use documents in their research projects, either alongside another method like interviewing, or by themselves. \u00a0There is a checklist in the concluding chapter, which will guide the researcher from start to finish in terms of planning their research (and\/or drafting a protocol), keeping records of relevant decisions (to make writing up easy) and analysing their data.<\/p>\n<h2>How did you approach this?<\/h2>\n<p>I was really surprised when I was offered a book contract within a few months of submitting my proposal; most people find it takes several publishers and years.\u00a0 In order to fit this alongside my day job, I read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ithinkwell.com.au\/turbocharge-your-writing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turbocharge Your Writing<\/a> and followed many of the lessons.<\/p>\n<p>I started off taking the proposal and copy and pasting each chapter into a new document. \u00a0This gave me the headings and many of the sub-headings required.\u00a0 One of the key rules in Turbocharge your writing is to have a \u2018golden hour\u2019 in which you only write, and you \u2018nail your feet to the floor\u2019 \u2013 not leaving the desk (or checking Facebook) if it gets hard.\u00a0 Each morning I wrote for about 45 minutes to an hour and a half before coming in to work, leaving myself comment bubbles where I needed to find a reference or some information that I didn\u2019t have. \u00a0Fortunately, I knew the literature very well from previous projects, so didn\u2019t need to do too much extra reading!<\/p>\n<h2>How did you find the extra energy to do this?<\/h2>\n<p>As I explicitly aimed to make the book reader friendly, I adopted a conversational style, and I found that the book flowed out of me without too much effort. \u00a0I also had to be strict with myself, not taking every exciting opportunity that presented itself to contribute to a paper, grant application or committee.<\/p>\n<h2>What daily writing goals did you set (e.g. 2,000 words)<\/h2>\n<p>My only goal was to spend a minimum of 45 minutes writing at least four days a week. \u00a0Some days I wrote loads, others not very much, but it balanced out in the end.<\/p>\n<h2>Did you map out whole book chapters and sub chapters upfront? Did you use stickys?<\/h2>\n<p>I did,\u00a0from copying and pasting from the chapter outline, and then I used lots of scribbled notes and post-its to keep me on track.<\/p>\n<h2>What surprised you most during the experience of creating the book?<\/h2>\n<p>Last week I was looking over the proofs of the book, and I was amazed at how much I had covered and quite how big it was.\u00a0 Breaking it down into chapters, then sections, then sub-sections and finally paragraphs meant that it never felt that big.<\/p>\n<h2>What next?<\/h2>\n<p>In writing this book, I realised that it wasn\u2019t possible to make a book detailed enough to be methodologically robust and also accessible to undergraduate students.\u00a0 The next project is to write a shorter \u2018how to\u2019 guide aimed at undergraduate and masters students, which acknowledges the particular challenges for research design, sampling and ethics that come when documents are used as data.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Doing-Excellent-Social-Research-with-Documents-Practical-Examples-and\/Grant\/p\/book\/9781138038660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1109\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-trials-research\/author-interview-with-dr-aimee-grant-doing-excellent-social-research-with-documents-practical-examples-and-guidance-for-qualitative-researchers\/dr-aimee-grant-doing-excellent-social-research-with-documents\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-trials-research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/499\/2018\/08\/Dr-Aimee-Grant-Doing-Excellent-Social-Research-with-Documents.png\" data-orig-size=\"600,100\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dr Aimee Grant &amp;#8211; 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