Hindsight, foresight and insight: The challenges of longitudinal qualitative research

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Gambling careers: A longitudinal, qualitative study of gambling behaviour (2013, background): “…the benefits of longitudinal qualitative research in other areas, such as criminal careers (Farrell, 2000) and alcohol use (Vaillant, 1995) have been recognised, where the focus on in-depth exploration of meanings and motivations have provided rich insights into behaviour (Thomson & Holland, 2003).”
The neurotic academic: anxiety, casualisation, and governance in the neoliberalising university (2018, methodology): “Using a QLR methodology has allowed the participants’ changing employment circumstances to be tracked over the course of the project, and has also facilitated the diachronic analysis of perceptions and identities (Thomson and Holland 2003).”
Analysing Qualitative Longitudinal Research in Evaluations (2007, background): “The analysis at each stage was useful for capturing our understanding of the participant’s situation at that point and for recording our own reflections, albeit reflections that we treated as contingent and tentative readings of the data (Thomson and Holland, 2003).”
Developing an analytical framework for multiple perspective, qualitative longitudinal interviews (MPQLI) (2018, background): “Longitudinally we look at the development of a specific narrative over time (Kirkman, Harrison, Hillier, & Pyett, 2001; Thomson & Holland, 2003).”