Ada

My research examines institutional injustice amongst marginalised communities. I find qualitative research useful as it can be used to complement, understand and explain quantitative research – as qualitative methods enable researchers to explore and understand people's experiences in ways that quantitative research alone cannot. So where quantitative research provides statistics, such as rates, frequencies and correlations, qualitative research, by comparison, can examine possible reasons for why they occur. Whilst qualitative and quantitative research come from different paradigms, they are not necessarily incompatible. They may be complimentary, either by asking different research questions or by addressing research questions from different perspectives.

I’ve highlighted a paper in the library that shows how qualitative research can be used to complement and explain quantitative research.