The Utility of Template Analysis in Qualitative Psychology Research
By Joanna Brooks, S. McCluskey, Emma L. Turley, N. King. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 2014
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Thematic analysis is widely used in qualitative psychology research, and in this article, we present a particular style of thematic analysis known as Template Analysis. We outline the technique and consider its epistemological position, then describe three case studies of research projects which employed Template Analysis to illustrate the diverse ways it can be used. Our first case study illustrates how the technique was employed in data analysis undertaken by a team of researchers in a large-scale qualitative research project. Our second example demonstrates how a qualitative study that set out to build on mainstream theory made use of the a priori themes (themes determined in advance of coding) permitted in Template Analysis. Our final case study shows how Template Analysis can be used from an interpretative phenomenological stance. We highlight the distinctive features of this style of thematic analysis, discuss the kind of research where it may be particularly appropriate, and consider possible limitations of the technique. We conclude that Template Analysis is a flexible form of thematic analysis with real utility in qualitative psychology research.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Management Science and Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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- One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis? (2020, neutral): “…Ritchie and Lewis 2003; Smith & Firth, 2011), matrix analysis (e.g. Miles and Huberman 1994; Nadin and Cassell 2014) and template analysis (e.g. Brooks et al. 2015; King 2012, 2014), comprise processes and conceptualisations that have elements of each, with their own ‘best practice’ and…”
- Human well-being and system performance in the transition to industry 4.0 (2020, methodology): “ti 7 and followed a systematic coding process comparable to a template analysis as described by (Brooks et al., 2015).”
- Zeileis Conditional Variable Importance for Random Forests (2015, methodology): “The recordings of the two focus group discussions were transcribed and analyzed following a template analysis [97].”