Aligning Student and Supervisor Perspectives of Research Challenges

Exploring Uniting Reformed Church of South Africa African pastors’ well-being, calling and healing: An interactive qualitative analysis

“…The research methodology is an IQA research design that provides a concurrent method for data gathering and analysis of lived experiences, as reflected by constituents with commonalities related to the phenomena under investigation (Albertyn, Van Coller-Peter & Morrison 2017, 2018. Following Northcutt and McCoy (2004), the main steps in an IQA research design are (1) identifying an issue statement, (2) identifying and selecting constituencies and (3) concurrent data gathering and analysis.…”

“…Interactive qualitative analysis enables researchers to create a hermeneutical understanding of complex systems, of which constituents are the key authors, to construct and describe codes (called sub-affinities) and themes (called affinities) in two ways: focus groups and interviews (Northcutt & McCoy 2004). Interactive qualitative analysis is an inclusive methodology because it enables researchers to direct the collection and analysis of qualitative data based on the four phases of the IQA research process, namely the research design, the focus group(s), the interview(s) and the report (Albertyn 2016;Albertyn, Van Coller-Peter & Morrison 2017, 2018Northcutt & McCoy 2004;Robertson 2015;Schreuders-Van Den Berg 2013). This article reports on the results of the focus group activity.…”

A multi-level researcher development framework to address contrasting views of student research challenges

“…For the purposes of this article only the composite SID from one student and one supervisor focus group is presented. Full description of various SIDs have been reported elsewhere (Albertyn, Van Coller-Peter and Morrison 2016).…”