Social Network Analysis and Qualitative Research Dr Mary Lam - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Social Network Analysis and Qualitative Research Dr Mary Lam Senior Lecturer Discipline Lead – Health Data Science and Health Information Management Discipline of Health Services Management Faculty of Health

Implementation Quantitative Survey Studies items Quan and qual Results Open ended analytic reporting questions approaches

5 Social Network Analysis (SNA) • Origins in social science • Visualisation relationship • Numeric coefficients for relationships • Application beyond social sciences

SNA in a nutshell 2 • Density 4 • Centrality 1 o Degree o Betweenness o Closeness 6 3 5 7 • Node (Vertex) • Link (Edge)

Implementation Quantitative Survey Studies items Quan and qual Visualisation - Open ended analytic SNA questions approaches

Facilitators • Centrality • Degree = 23 • Betweenness=252 • Closeness=0.018

9 Conclusions • SNA useful for visualising qualitative data • Research design include collection of qualitative data

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