Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research

By Iddo Tavory, S. Timmermans. 2014

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Realist review (2021, background): “Anti-realists may criticise the use of abductive logic as simply ‘guess work’ but advocates would counter by arguing that abduction is the only way to introduce new ideas into the scientific evidence base (Tavory & Timmermans, 2014).”
The neurotic academic: anxiety, casualisation, and governance in the neoliberalising university (2018, methodology): “Following an abductive approach to data analysis ‘centred on the relationship among theory, method, and observation’ (Tavory and Timmermans 2014, p. 6), interview transcripts were coded thematically, compared across cases, and analysed over time (for those participants who took part in two/three…”
A framework to assess the resilience of farming systems (2019, background): “Caution has to be applied when resilience capacities are assigned by the researchers; data analysis in the qualitative methods used, such as in-depth interviews, implies abductive reasoning (Tavory and Timmermans, 2014) to infer which resilience capacities were revealed e.”
Professional development design considerations in climate change education: teacher enactment and student learning (2018, methodology): “Climate Academy artefacts and teacher instructional experience An abductive analytic approach was implemented to examine qualitative documents collected from the Climate Academy and Emma’s instructional delivery (Tavory & Timmermans, 2014).”