Using a speadsheet grid for a literature review – a thematic analysis grid

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I’ve tried many different techniques for organising literature reviews, including mind mapping software, little black notebooks with long lists of bullet points, A3 paper full of multi coloured sharpie doodles – the list would go on for a long time.

Eventually I came across this technique, introduced to me by Dr Deborah Anderson who completed her PhD at Lancaster a few years ago. In its original form she used large squares of paper, my addition to this was the idea of using a cloud based spreadsheet.

What’s the point of all this?

This is an example post. As blog posts are made they will cascade down the page, typically ordered by date (from most recent). We can invite people to write things and they will appear here. As posts are created, we tag them with keywords that enable people to search and find things of interest.