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Articles on thematic analysis, presenting qualitative findings and news from Themescape.

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Thematic analysis5 min readWriting working definitions that survive reviewA theme you can name but not define is not finished. How to write working definitions early, test them against the quotes and keep the record of how they changed.Charlotte Price24 October 2026Read the article

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Presenting findings5 min readChoosing and refining illustrative quotesHow to choose quotes that show what a theme means, tidy them for presentation, and keep the verbatim as the record.Charlotte Price24 October 2026Read the article

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Using Themescape4 min readMoving a coded project from NVivo into the templateKeep coding in NVivo and bring the result into Themescape to see, refine and present it. What to do before you export, what comes across and what to tidy afterwards.Charlotte Price24 October 2026Read the article

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Presenting findings4 min readPresenting your themes to a supervisorDescribing an analysis in words can take the whole meeting. How to prepare, what to show and what to ask, so supervision is spent on the thinking.Charlotte Price24 October 2026Read the article

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Thematic analysis6 min readThree views of one thematic map, and when each helpsThe node network, the hierarchy and the file tree show the same coding. Each answers a different question at a different phase of the analysis.Charlotte Price24 October 2026Read the article

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Ethics and data4 min readWhat to tell an ethics committee about software that reads data in the browserBrowser based can sound like cloud based. How to describe software that reads research data on your own computer, and the one exception to mention.Charlotte Price24 October 2026Read the article

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New article: Choosing a view for your thematic map

Which of the three views suits a thesis chapter, a journal figure or a slide.5 min read · Read the article

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New tutorial: Load your first file

From a coded spreadsheet to a map on screen in about ten minutes.8 min tutorial · Watch the tutorial

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New article: Presenting findings to a supervision group

How to walk a group through your themes without reading every quote aloud.6 min read · Read the article

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New article: The shape of a theme

What a well built theme looks like on the map, and how to tell when one needs splitting.7 min read · Read the article

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