[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":430},["ShallowReactive",2],{"answers-\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fresearch-question-changed-mid-phd":3,"answers-cluster-research-gaps":109,"answers-related-\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fresearch-question-changed-mid-phd":149},{"id":4,"title":5,"answer":6,"body":7,"cluster":69,"description":70,"extension":71,"faq":72,"heading":75,"intro":63,"kind":76,"meta":77,"navigation":78,"order":79,"outbound":80,"path":87,"primaryQuery":88,"product":89,"related":92,"seo":95,"sources":96,"stem":107,"updated":100,"__hash__":108},"answers\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fresearch-question-changed-mid-phd.md","Your Research Question Changed. Now What?","Yes, and it usually does. A question written before you knew the field was a first estimate. What matters is that the change is deliberate, documented, and justified by something you learned, rather than a quiet drift you notice while writing the conclusion.",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":62},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,23,26,29,34,37,40,43,47,50,53,56,59],[11,12,13],"p",{},"The question you registered with was written by someone who had read a fraction of what you have now read. Expecting it to survive intact would be strange, and supervisors know this. What causes trouble is not the change itself but the way it happens.",[11,15,16],{},"There are two kinds. Deliberate revision follows a specific discovery: the data you needed does not exist, the effect you were testing was reported as a null in three unpublished studies, the concept turned out to be two concepts. That is research working correctly and it is straightforward to defend.",[11,18,19],{},"The methods literature lists the specific faults that force a revision, and they are mundane ones. A question gets rewritten when it is too broad, when there are not enough subjects, when answering it needs skills or equipment you do not have, when it costs too much, or when it stops looking interesting or relevant. The matching fixes are equally concrete: cut the number of variables, change your inclusion and exclusion criteria, add a data source or extend the study period, learn the skill or find a collaborator, and reduce the number of measurements or follow-ups (Ratan et al., 2019, p. 15). If one of those sentences describes your situation, you have your justification already written.",[11,21,22],{},"Ratan and colleagues also treat question formulation as a sequence rather than a single decision, which is why revision is built into it. You start from a broad subject, read the prior studies, identify the gap, move from a general question to specific ones, narrow the scope, evaluate what you have, and only then write the question down (Ratan et al., 2019, p. 18). They score the result against ten criteria they abbreviate as FINERMAPS, meaning feasible, interesting, novel, ethical, relevant, manageable, appropriate, potentially valuable, publishable, and systematic (Ratan et al., 2019, p. 15). A question that fails one of those tests is supposed to change.",[11,24,25],{},"Drift is different. Drift happens when the question is never revised on paper but the work slowly stops answering it. The introduction still asks about one thing while chapters four and five are about another, and nobody notices until the final read-through, when the thesis reads as three loosely related studies.",[11,27,28],{},"The protection against drift is cheap. Keep the current question in one file with a date. Every time your understanding shifts, reread it and either confirm it or rewrite it and note why. Ten minutes a month, and it also means you always have a defensible answer when someone asks what your thesis is about.",[30,31,33],"h2",{"id":32},"how-do-i-justify-the-change-to-my-committee","How do I justify the change to my committee?",[11,35,36],{},"Present it as a finding. Say what you learned that made the original question unanswerable or uninteresting, name the evidence, then state the new question and what it now makes possible. A change explained this way demonstrates judgment. An unexplained one looks like loss of control.",[11,38,39],{},"Bring the evidence with you. If a dataset turned out to be unusable, show the access refusal or the missingness. If the effect had already been established, bring the paper. Committees are reassured by a candidate who can point to the specific thing that forced the decision.",[11,41,42],{},"Say clearly what stays and what goes. A committee's real worry is timeline, so pair the change with a revised plan showing which chapters survive, which need rewriting, and what the new completion date is.",[30,44,46],{"id":45},"what-happens-to-the-work-built-on-the-old-question","What happens to the work built on the old question?",[11,48,49],{},"Most of it survives in a different role. Literature becomes context, pilot data becomes justification for the redesign, and an abandoned analysis often becomes a methods appendix. Genuinely dead work is worth naming in one sentence rather than hiding, since examiners can usually see the seam anyway.",[11,51,52],{},"Wait before deleting anything. Work that looks useless during a redirection frequently becomes relevant again once the new question settles, and the cost of keeping files is nothing next to the cost of redoing an analysis.",[11,54,55],{},"A shifting question is often a sign the project is working. Marino and colleagues point out that a project going well will open new research questions and future directions, some of them beyond the scope of the PhD, and that a research project is never really finished (Marino et al., 2014, pp. 1-2). Note the difference in emphasis between the two sources. Ratan and colleagues are writing about getting the question right before the work starts, while Marino and colleagues are writing about what to do when the work keeps generating better questions than the one you registered. Both positions point at the same action, which is deciding on purpose what belongs in the thesis and what belongs in the future work section.",[11,57,58],{},"That decision has a deadline. Marino and colleagues advise settling on the set of agreed experiments that will provide enough evidence for the degree, then starting to write instead of returning to the laboratory for more data. They suggest fixing that plan around one year before submission and reviewing it every few weeks, with slack built in for technical problems (Marino et al., 2014, p. 1). Applied to a question that has changed, this means the new question needs a boundary and a date attached to it, not just a supervisor's agreement that it is the better question.",[11,60,61],{},"There is also a viva benefit. Being able to explain a path not taken, with reasons, is one of the clearest demonstrations of independent research judgment available to you, and examiners ask about it more often than candidates expect.",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":65},"",4,[66,68],{"id":32,"depth":67,"text":33},2,{"id":45,"depth":67,"text":46},"research-gaps","Whether a research question can change during a PhD, how to justify the change to a supervisor or committee, and what happens to work built on the old question.","md",[73,74],{"q":33,"a":36},{"q":46,"a":49},"Can a research question change during a PhD?","answer",{},true,7,[81,84],{"label":82,"to":83},"Version history and provenance","\u002Fdocs\u002Fworking-with-the-agent\u002Fversion-history-and-provenance",{"label":85,"to":86},"Gap finding as a workflow","\u002Fdocs\u002Fresearch-workflows\u002Fgap-finding","\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fresearch-question-changed-mid-phd","can my research question change during my phd",{"text":90,"to":83,"label":91},"Because Agent Bayes keeps version history for every map, a question that shifts leaves a trail rather than overwriting the old work. You can see what the argument looked like before, restore an earlier state, and keep named snapshots of the structure a redirection replaced.","How version history records changes",[93,94],"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fplan-a-realistic-phd-timeline","\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fdefend-your-methodology-in-a-viva",{"title":5,"description":70},[97,101,104],{"label":98,"url":99,"checked":100},"Ratan et al., Formulation of Research Question - Stepwise Approach, Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons (2019)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.4103\u002Fjiaps.JIAPS_76_18","2026-08-06",{"label":102,"url":103,"checked":100},"Marino et al., Ten simple rules for finishing your PhD, PLoS Computational Biology (2014)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1371\u002Fjournal.pcbi.1003954",{"label":105,"url":106,"checked":100},"Pautasso, Ten Simple Rules for Writing a Literature Review, PLoS Computational Biology (2013)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1371\u002Fjournal.pcbi.1003149","answers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fresearch-question-changed-mid-phd","gQ8IoLayGyZ0OQt9K9iDBmrd2h3amiKMtV8atwR5_qM",[110,115,119,124,128,133,138,139,144],{"path":111,"heading":112,"description":113,"order":114},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Ffind-a-research-gap","How do I identify a research gap in the literature?","How to identify a research gap in the literature, the different kinds of gap that exist, and how to tell a real one from a topic nobody has bothered to publish on.",1,{"path":116,"heading":117,"description":118,"order":67},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fis-my-research-gap-original","How do I know if my research gap is original?","How to check that a research gap has not already been filled, what to do if someone publishes your idea first, and how thorough the originality check has to be.",{"path":120,"heading":121,"description":122,"order":123},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fwrite-a-research-gap-statement","How do I write a research gap statement?","How to write a research gap statement that holds up, which phrasings make a gap sound weak or overclaimed, and how long the statement should actually be.",3,{"path":125,"heading":126,"description":127,"order":64},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fturn-a-topic-into-a-research-question","How do I turn a research topic into a research question?","How to convert a broad research topic into an answerable research question, how narrow it needs to be, and the difference between a question and a research aim.",{"path":129,"heading":130,"description":131,"order":132},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fwhat-makes-a-good-research-question","What makes a good research question in a PhD thesis?","What separates a doctoral research question from a masters one, how many questions a thesis should have, and whether sub-questions should map onto chapters.",5,{"path":134,"heading":135,"description":136,"order":137},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fresearch-question-or-hypothesis","What is the difference between a research question and a hypothesis?","The difference between a research question and a hypothesis, whether a qualitative study can have one, and when a project genuinely needs both.",6,{"path":87,"heading":75,"description":70,"order":79},{"path":140,"heading":141,"description":142,"order":143},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fnarrow-a-broad-research-question","How do I narrow down a research question that is too broad?","How to narrow a research question that is too broad, which parts of a question you can narrow on, and how to tell when you have gone too far the other way.",8,{"path":145,"heading":146,"description":147,"order":148},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fchoose-a-theoretical-framework","How do I choose a theoretical framework for my thesis?","How to choose a theoretical framework for a thesis, the difference between a theoretical and a conceptual framework, and whether you can use more than one.",9,[150,153,156,159,162,165,168,171,174,177,180,183,186,189,192,195,198,201,204,207,210,213,216,219,222,225,228,231,234,237,240,243,246,249,252,255,258,261,264,267,270,273,276,279,282,285,288,291,293,296,298,301,304,307,310,313,316,319,322,325,328,331,334,337,340,343,346,349,352,355,358,361,364,367,370,373,376,379,382,385,388,391,394,397,398,399,400,401,402,403,404,405,406,409,412,415,418,421,424,427],{"path":151,"heading":152},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fdraft-without-stopping-for-citations","How do I draft when I keep stopping to look up citations?",{"path":154,"heading":155},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fhow-long-should-a-literature-review-chapter-be","How long should a literature review chapter be?",{"path":157,"heading":158},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fparaphrase-without-plagiarizing","How do I paraphrase a source without plagiarizing?",{"path":160,"heading":161},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fstructure-a-phd-thesis","How do I structure a PhD thesis chapter by chapter?",{"path":163,"heading":164},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fthesis-by-publication-or-monograph","Should I do a thesis by publication or a monograph?",{"path":166,"heading":167},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-discussion-section","How do I write a discussion section without repeating the results?",{"path":169,"heading":170},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-methodology-chapter","How do I write a methodology chapter?",{"path":172,"heading":173},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-thesis-introduction","How do I write a thesis introduction?",{"path":175,"heading":176},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-an-abstract","How do I write an abstract for a research paper?",{"path":178,"heading":179},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-consistently-during-a-phd","How do I write consistently during a PhD?",{"path":181,"heading":182},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fai-for-systematic-review-screening","Can I use AI for screening in a systematic review?",{"path":184,"heading":185},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fare-ai-detectors-reliable","Are AI detectors reliable?",{"path":187,"heading":188},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-an-ai-be-an-author","Can an AI tool be listed as an author on a paper?",{"path":190,"heading":191},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-i-use-ai-for-a-literature-review","Can I use AI for a literature review?",{"path":193,"heading":194},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-you-trust-an-ai-summary","Can I trust AI summaries of research papers?",{"path":196,"heading":197},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fdisclose-ai-use-in-a-paper","Do I need to disclose AI use in a research paper?",{"path":199,"heading":200},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fhow-to-cite-chatgpt","How do I cite ChatGPT in APA 7?",{"path":202,"heading":203},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fis-using-chatgpt-plagiarism","Is using ChatGPT for academic writing plagiarism?",{"path":205,"heading":206},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fusing-ai-in-a-phd-thesis","Can I use AI in a PhD thesis?",{"path":208,"heading":209},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fusing-ai-to-write-a-peer-review","Can I use AI to help write a peer review?",{"path":211,"heading":212},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fverify-ai-generated-citations","How do I check whether AI-generated citations are real?",{"path":214,"heading":215},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fwhy-ai-answers-better-on-your-own-pdfs","Why does an AI answer better when it reads my own PDFs?",{"path":217,"heading":218},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fwhy-chatgpt-invents-references","Why does ChatGPT make up references?",{"path":220,"heading":221},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcheck-every-claim-against-its-citation","How do I check that every claim in my thesis is supported by its citation?",{"path":223,"heading":224},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcite-the-paper-you-read-or-the-original","Should I cite the paper I read or the original study it references?",{"path":226,"heading":227},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcited-source-does-not-say-that","What do I do when a paper's cited source does not support its claim?",{"path":229,"heading":230},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fciting-a-paper-you-cannot-access","Can I cite a paper I cannot get hold of?",{"path":232,"heading":233},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fciting-a-review-instead-of-the-original","Is citing a review instead of the original research bad practice?",{"path":235,"heading":236},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fdo-i-need-to-cite-everything","Do I need to cite absolutely everything in a thesis?",{"path":238,"heading":239},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fhow-much-self-citation","How much self-citation is acceptable?",{"path":241,"heading":242},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fjournal-page-number-or-pdf-page-number","Do I use the journal page number or the PDF page number in a citation?",{"path":244,"heading":245},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fquoting-a-source-in-another-language","How do I quote a source in another language in an English thesis?",{"path":247,"heading":248},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fwhere-does-the-citation-go","Where should a citation go when only one clause in a sentence needs support?",{"path":250,"heading":251},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fyou-described-a-result-too-broadly","How do I fix a sentence that describes a study's result too broadly?",{"path":253,"heading":254},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fzotero-or-mendeley","Should I use Zotero or Mendeley for a PhD?",{"path":256,"heading":257},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fbuild-a-synthesis-matrix","How do I build a synthesis matrix when my themes keep changing as I read?",{"path":259,"heading":260},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fkeep-a-literature-review-current","How do I keep a literature review current over a multi-year PhD?",{"path":262,"heading":263},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fliterature-review-synthesis-or-summary","How do I know if my literature review is synthesis or just a summary?",{"path":265,"heading":266},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fliterature-review-too-descriptive","What does it mean when a supervisor says a literature review is too descriptive?",{"path":268,"heading":269},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fnarrative-scoping-or-systematic-review","What is the difference between a narrative literature review and a systematic review?",{"path":271,"heading":272},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Forganize-literature-review-by-argument","How do I organize a literature review by argument instead of by paper?",{"path":274,"heading":275},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Freview-that-leads-to-your-question","How do I write a literature review that leads logically to my research question?",{"path":277,"heading":278},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fscreening-abstracts-for-a-review","How do I screen hundreds of abstracts for a systematic review?",{"path":280,"heading":281},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fstudies-with-opposite-conclusions","What do I write when two studies on the same question reach opposite conclusions?",{"path":283,"heading":284},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fsynthesis-matrix-into-paragraphs","How do I turn a synthesis matrix into literature review paragraphs?",{"path":286,"heading":287},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fsystematic-review-search-strategy","How do I build a search strategy for a systematic review?",{"path":289,"heading":290},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fwhen-to-stop-searching-for-papers","How do I know when to stop searching for papers for a literature review?",{"path":94,"heading":292},"How do I defend my methodology in a viva?",{"path":294,"heading":295},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fimposter-syndrome-in-a-phd","How do I deal with imposter syndrome during a PhD?",{"path":93,"heading":297},"How do I plan a realistic PhD timeline?",{"path":299,"heading":300},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fpostdoc-or-industry","Should I do a postdoc or go to industry after my PhD?",{"path":302,"heading":303},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fprepare-for-a-phd-viva","How do I prepare for a PhD viva?",{"path":305,"heading":306},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fstop-procrastinating-on-your-phd","How do I stop procrastinating on my PhD?",{"path":308,"heading":309},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhat-happens-if-a-viva-goes-badly","What happens if you fail a PhD viva?",{"path":311,"heading":312},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhen-your-supervisor-is-not-supportive","What do I do when my PhD supervisor is not supportive?",{"path":314,"heading":315},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwrite-an-academic-cv","How do I write an academic CV for a postdoc application?",{"path":317,"heading":318},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fchoose-a-journal","How do I choose a journal for my paper?",{"path":320,"heading":321},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fdo-you-pay-to-publish-open-access","Do I have to pay to publish open access?",{"path":323,"heading":324},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-author-order-is-decided","How is author order decided on a paper?",{"path":326,"heading":327},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-peer-review-works","How does journal peer review actually work?",{"path":329,"heading":330},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-to-cite-a-preprint","How do I cite a preprint?",{"path":332,"heading":333},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fjournal-submission-cover-letter","How do I write a cover letter for a journal submission?",{"path":335,"heading":336},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Frespond-to-reviewer-comments","How do I respond to peer reviewer comments?",{"path":338,"heading":339},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fshould-you-post-a-preprint","Should I post my paper as a preprint?",{"path":341,"heading":342},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fspot-a-predatory-journal","How do I tell if a journal is predatory?",{"path":344,"heading":345},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fwhy-papers-get-desk-rejected","Why was my paper desk rejected?",{"path":347,"heading":348},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ffind-the-paper-you-half-remember","How do I find a paper when I only remember the argument it made?",{"path":350,"heading":351},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fhighlighting-pdfs-stops-working","Why can I never find my PDF highlights again?",{"path":353,"heading":354},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fhow-many-papers-can-you-read-a-day","How many papers can a PhD student realistically read in a day?",{"path":356,"heading":357},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fkeep-up-with-new-papers","How do I keep up with new papers without reading everything?",{"path":359,"heading":360},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fnon-english-studies-in-a-review","How do I include non-English studies in a literature review?",{"path":362,"heading":363},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fnote-system-takes-too-long","What do I do when my note-taking system takes longer than reading the papers?",{"path":365,"heading":366},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Forganize-100-papers","How do I organize and extract information from more than 100 papers?",{"path":368,"heading":369},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Freading-papers-in-a-second-language","How do I read research papers efficiently when English is my second language?",{"path":371,"heading":372},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fremember-what-a-paper-said","How do I remember what was in papers I read months ago?",{"path":374,"heading":375},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Frestart-a-project-after-months-away","How do I get back into a research project after months away?",{"path":377,"heading":378},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ftrack-connections-between-papers","How do I keep track of connections between papers?",{"path":380,"heading":381},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ftriage-pdfs-before-reading","How do I triage 200 PDFs before deciding which ones to read in full?",{"path":383,"heading":384},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fanonymize-qualitative-data","How do I anonymize qualitative interview data?",{"path":386,"heading":387},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Ffair-data-principles-in-practice","What are the FAIR data principles?",{"path":389,"heading":390},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Forganize-research-data-files","How do I organize research data files?",{"path":392,"heading":393},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fwhat-preregistration-is","What is preregistration in research?",{"path":395,"heading":396},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fwrite-a-data-management-plan","How do I write a data management plan?",{"path":145,"heading":146},{"path":111,"heading":112},{"path":116,"heading":117},{"path":140,"heading":141},{"path":87,"heading":75},{"path":134,"heading":135},{"path":125,"heading":126},{"path":129,"heading":130},{"path":120,"heading":121},{"path":407,"heading":408},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fchoose-a-statistical-test","How do I choose which statistical test to use?",{"path":410,"heading":411},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fhow-many-interviews-is-enough","How many interviews are enough for a qualitative study?",{"path":413,"heading":414},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fhow-to-do-thematic-analysis","How do I do thematic analysis step by step?",{"path":416,"heading":417},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Finductive-or-deductive-coding","What is the difference between inductive and deductive thematic analysis?",{"path":419,"heading":420},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fintegrate-mixed-methods-data","How do I integrate qualitative and quantitative data in a mixed methods study?",{"path":422,"heading":423},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Frigour-in-qualitative-research","How do I show rigour in qualitative research?",{"path":425,"heading":426},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fwhat-a-p-value-means","What does a p value actually mean?",{"path":428,"heading":429},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fwork-out-your-sample-size","How do I calculate the sample size for a study?",1786014767903]