Vertaile menetelmiä

	Refleksiivinen temaattinen analyysi	Temaattinen analyysi
Tieteenala	Laadulliset menetelmät	Laadullinen tutkimus
Menetelmäperhe	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Syntyvuosi	2006 (seminal paper); explicitly named 'reflexive' from ~2019	2006
Kehittäjä	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke	Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke
Tyyppi	Qualitative research method	Method
Alkuperäislähde	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
Rinnakkaisnimet	RTA, reflexive TA, Braun and Clarke thematic analysis, qualitative thematic analysis	TA, Reflexive Thematic Analysis
Liittyvät	6	3
Tiivistelmä	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.	Thematic Analysis (TA) is a qualitative research methodology for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) in qualitative data. Developed systematically by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke (2006), TA is flexible and accessible, applicable across diverse theoretical frameworks and data types, making it one of the most widely used qualitative methods in psychology, health research, and social sciences.