RL2024-4
Putting Feelings Where They’re Useful: Using Emotions as Data in Qualitative Analysis
Recorded: Tuesday, July 2, 2024
 
INSTRUCTORS
Hilary Lustick, University of Massachusetts – Lowell

Abeer Hakouz, University of Massachusetts – Lowell

Xiaoye Yang, University of Massachusetts – Lowell

The Emotion Coding Technique (Lustick, 2021) is a systematic method of qualitative analysis that captures emotions as they arise and helps us process them as information about us, our participants, and our research objectives. In this course, we will review the emotion coding technique, which applies a set of reflexive questions to a chunk of data (Lustick, 2021). We will then talk about some of the complexities of naming and reflecting on emotions during data analysis. We will share our own best practices and hear some additional strategies from the instructor, including an emotion wheel to choose from. Lastly, we will shift into independent work time to practice and reflect on the technique. The course is open to all qualitative and mixed methods researchers, with graduate students and early career researchers in mind. Please have basic qualitative and mixed methods training, including an understanding of positionality and reflexivity. You are advised, though not required, to have available original qualitative data, such as an interview transcript, with which to practice the technique.