Supporting materials

Related datasets, collections and other links

• The re-use of qualitative data is an under-appreciated field for innovation and the creation of new knowledge in the social sciences, LSE Impact Blog
• Developing a temporal ethical sensibility for sharing research data: a case for data re-use and qualitative secondary analysis, for The Digital Curation Centre University of Edinburgh
• NCRM methods matter podcast on Qualitative Secondary Analysis

Recommended reading

• Duncan, S. (2012) ‘Using elderly data theoretically: Personal life in 1949/1950 and individualisation theory’, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 15(4): 311–29.
• Hammersley, M. (2015) ‘On ethical principles for social research’, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 18(4): 433–49.
• Henderson, S., Holland, J. and Thomson, R. (2006) Making the Long View: Perspectives on context from a qualitative longitudinal (QL) study, Methodological Innovations Online, 1(2): 47-63.
• Hughes, K., and Tarrant, B. (2020a) ‘What is Qualitative Secondary Analysis’, Chapter One, in K. Hughes, and A Tarrant (Eds). (2020) Qualitative Secondary Analysis, SAGE: London.
• Hughes, K., Hughes, J. and Tarrant A., (2020) ‘Re-approaching interview data through Qualitative Secondary Analysis: Interviews with Internet Gamblers’. International Journal of Social Research Methodologies https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13645579.2020.1766759
• Hughes, K., Hughes, J. & Tarrant, A. (2021) Working at a remove: continuous, collective, and configurative approaches to qualitative secondary analysis. Quality and Quantity. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01105-x
• Irwin, S. (2013) ‘Qualitative secondary data analysis: Ethics, epistemology and context’, Progress in Development Studies, 13(4): 295–306.
• Irwin, S., Bornat J. and Winterton, M. (2012) ‘Timescapes secondary analysis: Comparison, context and working across data sets’, Qualitative Research, 12(1): 66–80.
• Mason, J. (2007) ‘“Re-using” qualitative data: On the merits of an investigative epistemology’, Sociological Research Online, 12(3). Available at: www.socresonline.org.uk/12/3/3.html (accessed 22 May 2019).
• Mauthner, N.S., Parry, O. and Backett-Milburn, K. (1998) ‘The data are out there, or are they? Implications for archiving and revisiting qualitative data’, Sociology, 32(4): 733–45. Moore, N. (2007) ‘(Re)using qualitative data?’, Sociological Research Online. Available at: http://socresonline.org.uk/12/3/1.html (accessed 20 May 2019).
• Tarrant, A. and Hughes, K. (2019) Qualitative Secondary Analysis: Building Longitudinal Samples to understand men’s generational identities in low-income contexts, Sociology, 53 (3): 599-611. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780419878714
• Tarrant, A. (2017) ‘Getting out of the swamp? Methodological reflections on using qualitative secondary analysis to develop research design’, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20(6): 599–611.