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Why we like Grounded Theory

Antoinette McCallin

  • It allows participants to identify what they see as a problem in an area and tell the researcher how they manage that. 
  • The methodology is open yet it is systematic and structured in a way that allows the researcher room to move.
  • The methodology is intellectually stimulating in that the researcher reads widely, often beyond their traditional disciplinary boundaries.
  • The methodology supports simultaneous inductive-deductive thinking that suits some researcher’s style of thinking better than others.
  • I am a highly organised person with a good memory and it matches who I am as a person. 
  • Being a grounded theory researcher can be likened to solving a puzzle. If you enjoy doing puzzles you might well be a good Grounded Theory researcher.
  • Being a Grounded Theory researcher can also be likened to being a detective, to finding out what is really going on in the background – not what is obvious, but understanding what is not obvious.
  • I like to really listen to what people are saying and ask questions to try and understand their world.
  • Trusting in emergence is congruent with who I am as a person.
  • It is creative.
  • Above all it is intellectually stimulating and constantly challenging.
  • It allows me to be an independent thinker and an independent person.

Helen Scott

I love the emergent and empowering nature of Grounded Theory, it suits my temperament type (INFP). I love that you are free to be creative within a systematic framework. It's ok to develop new techniques e.g. online data collection (me), videoing where participants are unable to communicate through the spoken word (Nielsen) and also e.g. finding new theoretical codes e.g. Balancing (Thulesius). I love the power of theoretical codes in the order and understanding that they bring with them 

Tina Johnston.

Barney Glaser’s quantitative research background and the infusion of methods he learned while developing  research instruments spoke to me.  As someone who uses both quantitative and qualitative research methods, I enjoy that Classic Grounded Theory employs skills that I had already developed and uses data that would be considered both qualitative and quantitative in nature.  Classic Grounded theory methodology, however cannot be constrained to being solely a quantitative or a qualitative method - it is an embrassive and systematic method of developing theory.  In my discipline  we are very often discouraged from developing theory by others as it is considered the job for the seasoned academic  or  ‘the greats’ such as Einstein or Darwin.  With Classic Grounded Theory, however, interested and creative researchers can delve into and discover theories that speak to readers around the globe and across academic disciplines.

 

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