পদ্ধতির তুলনা করুন

	গবেষণা ডায়েরি	রিফ্লেক্সিভ থিমেটিক অ্যানালাইসিস
ক্ষেত্র	জরিপ পদ্ধতি	গুণগত
পরিবার	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
উদ্ভবের বছর	1981 (methodological codification); diary use in research dates to 19th-century anthropology	2006 (seminal paper); explicitly named 'reflexive' from ~2019
প্রবর্তক	Robert G. Burgess (systematic methodological treatment)	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
ধরন	Qualitative data collection and reflexivity tool	Qualitative research method
মৌলিক উৎস	Burgess, R. G. (1981). Keeping a research diary. Cambridge Journal of Education, 11(1), 75–83.	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
অপর নাম	researcher diary, field diary, research journal, reflexive diary	RTA, reflexive TA, Braun and Clarke thematic analysis, qualitative thematic analysis
সম্পর্কিত	6	6
সারসংক্ষেপ	A research diary is a systematic, dated log maintained by the researcher throughout a study to record methodological decisions, emergent observations, analytical hunches, and reflections on researcher positionality. Unlike a participant diary, it is authored by the researcher and functions simultaneously as a data source, an audit trail, and a reflexivity instrument.	Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) is a widely used qualitative method for identifying, analysing, and interpreting patterns of shared meaning — called themes — across a dataset. Developed by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke, it is theoretically flexible, works across epistemological positions, and foregrounds the researcher's active, interpretive role rather than treating themes as features that simply emerge from data. It differs from older 'codebook' approaches by treating the analyst's subjectivity as a resource rather than a source of bias to be suppressed.