Qualitative Presentation Strategies
By Dr. Linda Bloomberg, and hosted by Janet Salmons, Ph.D., Research Community Manager for Sage Methodspace.
Dr. Bloomberg is the author of Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation: A Road Map From Beginning to End. Use the code COMMUNITY3 for a 20% discount when you order her book, valid worldwide until March 31, 2024.
How do you present and share your study’s findings based on your selected research design?
Each qualitative research design encompasses specific ways of addressing a researchable problem; setting up the study; and collecting, analyzing, and presenting data. A researcher must ensure that methods of data presentation will be in alignment with their selected research design.
In this presentation, Linda Bloomberg explains how to think through key questions associated with presentation of findings, and walks through an example that demonstrates ways to align research designs with presentation strategies.
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See the whole series!
This is the fourth of a four-part series about qualitative research designs and methods drawn from Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation.
Q1: Design Strategy: How to Choose a Qualitative Research Design
Q2: Data Collection Strategy: How to Choose What Data to Collect from Whom
Linda Dale Bloomberg EdD., currently develops curriculum for qualitative research in graduate online programs for National University, serving as faculty coach, dissertation chair, and doctoral subject matter expert. She formerly served as an adjunct faculty and dissertation advisor in the department of adult learning and leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, and She also serves as consultant to various research, higher education, and nonprofit advisory boards including The Future Talent Council, and is founder of Bloomberg Associates and ILIAD (Institute for Learning Innovations and Adult Development) and cofounder of Columbia University’s Global Learning and Leadership Institute. As senior researcher for the South African Human Sciences Research Council and National Institute for Personnel Research, Dr. Bloomberg’s work focused on change management; diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; and enhanced workplace learning.
She is the author of multiple publications in the fields of qualitative research, organizational evaluation, leadership development, ensuring equitable student success, adult learning, and distance education, and is a contributor to The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation (2018). Her two most recent books include the 5th edition of Completing your qualitative dissertation: A road map from beginning to end (2023) from Sage; and Designing and delivering effective online instruction: How to engage adult learners (2021) from Teachers College Press, Columbia University. This publication was nominated for the 2021 and 2022 Division of Distance Learning (DDL) for the Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), one of the premier international organizations for instructional design and ed-tech. Dr. Bloomberg presents regularly at national and international professional conferences on topics related to diversity initiatives in higher education, adult learning, qualitative research, and dissertation instruction. She holds master’s degrees in counseling psychology, organizational psychology, and education, and is credentialed with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). In 2006, she received her doctorate in adult education and organizational learning from the AEGIS program Columbia University that was established by Jack Mezirow, founder of Transformative Learning theory.
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