ASSIGNMENT BRIEF
Qualitative Research Methodology MBS
Qualification Level 7 Diploma in Psychology
Assignment title: Qualitative Research Methodology
In this assignment you will be required to find an organisation of your choice on which you can find information easily or can use your employment context or prefer to use the following scenario as a standard context. The aim of this unit is to acquaint learners with the qualitative paradigm of psychology and different qualitative research methods and to provide them with an understanding of the uses and applications of qualitative methods in research.
Scenario
You work as a Health Psychologist for a Small and Medium Enterprise in the care sector. The purpose of your role is to help people deal with the psychological and emotional aspects of health and illness as well as supporting people who are chronically ill. For example advising people to improve their health or looking at ways on how best to encourage positive behaviours or reduce negative behaviour. Overall your role is to assess and treat clients with a range of mental or physical health issues, conditions and disorders. To meet assessment of this unit, you are required to write a report based on following the given tasks to reflect your understanding, knowledge and skills. In this unit, you are required to find the research problem, use research philosophies, methods, and apply research techniques/strategy to conduct the research project within the research ethics. To ensure how to write the assignment, you will be required to meet the all (or most) elements as per Guidelines for Submitting Assignment.
To meet each task, you would have to answer assessment criteria.
You must follow the structure
Page 2 – Table of Contents
Page 3 and onwards – Task 1 to Task 3
Last page – References
Task 1
Understand the qualitative paradigm of psychology and qualitative research.
To meet the above task, write your response as per following Assessment Criteria (AC)
AC 1.1. Evaluate the conceptual foundations, issues and nature of paradigms and approaches to qualitative research.
AC 1.2. Evaluate the conceptual foundations, issues and nature of paradigms and approaches to qualitative research.
Task 2
Understand the features, purposes and application of various qualitative research methods.
To meet the above task, write your response as per following Assessment Criteria (AC)
AC 2.1. Evaluate the types of qualitative methods of research interviews, focus group discussions and ethnography.
AC 2.2. Evaluate the grounded theory, life story research and cooperative inquiry.
AC 2.3. Determine the exact type of qualitative research method.
Task 3
Understand the concept of qualitative studies in relation to other studies.
To meet the above task, write your response as per following Assessment Criteria (AC)
AC 3.1. Create and justify links between qualitative research and feminist research.
AC 3.2. Use the techniques of discourse analysis and narrative analysis to draw justified conclusions.
Word count for
Task 1 – 1000 words,
Task 2 – 1000 words,
Task 3 – 1000 words.
Total word counts are 3000 words (+/- 10%).
