Author Description

This dataset uses interview data to show how to use a particular type of thematic analysis, called a hybrid approach. The data come from Dr. Jon Swain who is a senior researcher and lecturer at UCL, Institute of Education, and who was a researcher on a two-year qualitative project about adult learners returning to college to study mathematics. It uses a short extract from a face-to-face interview with a middle-aged Sikh woman, and the particular excerpt focuses on how she feels studying mathematics has changed her identity and affected her relationship with her husband. At the end of the file, a further example of interview data from the same project is provided for readers to have a go at analysing it using the same method. The dataset file is accompanied by a Teaching Guide and a Student Guide.