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	शोध डायरी	रिफ्लेक्सिव थीमैटिक एनालिसिस
क्षेत्र	सर्वेक्षण पद्धति	गुणात्मक
परिवार	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
उद्भव वर्ष	1981 (methodological codification); diary use in research dates to 19th-century anthropology	2006 (seminal paper); explicitly named 'reflexive' from ~2019
प्रवर्तक	Robert G. Burgess (systematic methodological treatment)	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
प्रकार	Qualitative data collection and reflexivity tool	Qualitative research method
मौलिक स्रोत	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.
उपनाम	researcher diary, field diary, research journal, reflexive diary	RTA, reflexive TA, Braun and Clarke thematic analysis, qualitative thematic analysis
संबंधित	6	6
सारांश	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.