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Thematic analysis

Meaning in academic english & research, with examples

nounCommon term

In academic english & research, thematic analysis means: A qualitative method for finding, organizing and interpreting patterns of meaning, called themes, across interviews, texts or other data.

In Turkish: tematik analiz, tema analizi

How it is used

Widely used in psychology, education and health research, often following Braun and Clarke's six-phase approach. Researchers code the data, generate and review themes, and report them with quotations from participants.

Example sentences

  1. The interview transcripts were examined using thematic analysis.

  2. Thematic analysis produced four main themes and eleven sub-themes.

Common collocations

  • conduct a thematic analysis
  • reflexive thematic analysis
  • themes and sub-themes
  • inductive thematic analysis
  • qualitativeDescribing research that studies experiences, meanings and behavior through words, images or observation rather than numbers, often with smaller groups of people.
  • analysisDetailed examination of data or a text in order to identify patterns, relationships or meaning, often using statistical or qualitative techniques.
  • dataFacts, numbers, recordings, texts or observations collected in a study and then analyzed to answer a research question.
  • reliabilityThe extent to which a measurement or method gives consistent results when it is repeated or used by different researchers.

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