Facing the methodology challenge: Using pre-existing data in an inquiry guided by grounded theory methodology

Dennis James Foster

Facing the methodology challenge: Using pre-existing data in an inquiry guided by grounded theory methodology

Dennis James Foster

School of Education

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Using pre-existing data can get a qualitative inquiry off to a flying start but it can also confront researchers with a range of unexpected methodological challenges. This paper focuses on research using an archive of pre-existing interviews as the primary data for a study of how pieces of music take on personal meaning in individual lives. It highlights seven methodological challenges encountered in using pre-existing data in the context of a study using grounded theory methodology. The challenges and solutions discussed support the use of pre-existing data, but caution that doing so is no soft option nor a fast track to completion.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Bridging the Gap between Ideas and Doing Research: Proceedings of the 6th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference
Editors	Terrence Hays
Place of Publication	Armidale, Australia
Publisher	University of New England
Pages	30-42
ISBN (Print)	1921208244
Publication status	Published - 31 Dec 2012
Event	Bridging the Gap between Ideas and Doing Research 2011: 6th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference - Armidale, Australia Duration: 4 Jul 2011 → 8 Jul 2011

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Conference	Bridging the Gap between Ideas and Doing Research 2011: 6th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference
City	Armidale, Australia
Period	4/07/11 → 8/07/11

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Education
Musicology and Ethnomusicology

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Foster, DJ 2012, Facing the methodology challenge: Using pre-existing data in an inquiry guided by grounded theory methodology. in T Hays (ed.), Bridging the Gap between Ideas and Doing Research: Proceedings of the 6th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference. University of New England, Armidale, Australia, pp. 30-42, Bridging the Gap between Ideas and Doing Research 2011: 6th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference, Armidale, Australia, 4/07/11. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16829>

Facing the methodology challenge: Using pre-existing data in an inquiry guided by grounded theory methodology. / Foster, Dennis James.
Bridging the Gap between Ideas and Doing Research: Proceedings of the 6th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference. ed. / Terrence Hays. Armidale, Australia: University of New England, 2012. p. 30-42.

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