Explore – Smartphone-based Activities: Put your investigative skills to the test with these quick interactive activities. Dig deeper into key concepts and understand how they might relate to your own research project via guided website searches and online discussion questions.

3.1 Qualitative research topics

Google ‘qualitative research topics’. Now watch this video which explains the kinds of questions you can ask using qualitative research methods:

Mertz Ph.D., N. T. (Academic). (2017). Norma T. Mertz discusses theoretical frameworks [Video]. SAGE Research Methods Video.

Using your own research project, explain why you want to use qualitative research methods. How might your research questions differ if you used quantitative methods?