ANALYSIS

Here it is, the moment I've been dreading since the beginning of this Module. 

The last couple of weeks I've been familiarising myself with my collected data and looking for patterns and meaning. 

Not really knowing if what I'm doing was right I turned to my supervisor and simply had a chat about what I understand my data to be. It helped to be assured that using the word "maybe" is perfectly normal. There is no one way so questioning each arising theme was definitely beneficial.

I started to just write and see where that takes me. After our recent session I also went back to my analysis with a fresh outlook. Instead of presuming, I let the patterns speak for themselves. Now my room and laptop is a mess of papers, highlights and 7 open word documents looking at my references to articles and interview notes while trying to word it all. Even as I write out my analysis new discoveries are happening. It's a lot of work and very time consuming but doable 💪

I read a few articles and found an interesting lecture on YouTube about thematic analysis which helped me a lot. For anyone using the same method copy the link below to take a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zFcC10vOVY

Best of luck with writing out our critical reviews everyone!