Maria Jirwe explains how the themed articles in this issue offer different insights into important challenges in the analysis of qualitative data

EVERYONE WHO has ever undertaken qualitative research knows that there are multiple complex challenges throughout all stages of the research process. After the initial idea for a research project has emerged and developed, the researcher needs to make important decisions and choices about what methods to use, how to collect the data, how to analyse that data and, in the end, how to present the data in a meaningful way.