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Peer-reviewed papers, theses, and dissertations whose authors coded and analyzed their qualitative data in Delve. This isn't a complete list. If your study is missing, please let us know and we'd be happy to add it!

By method Thematic analysis 222 Mixed methods 68 Content analysis 47 Grounded theory 35 Phenomenology 21 Narrative analysis 11 Discourse analysis 5

By field Education 81 Medicine 50 Public health 37 Psychology 30 HCI & computer science 27 Business & management 21 Communication & media 8 Sociology 10 Nursing 9

By method

Thematic analysis

Thematic analysis is the method researchers use Delve for most often, and the studies span every field represented here, from nursing and oncology to computer science and environmental management. They appear in clinical journals, ACM proceedings, and a long run of doctoral dissertations, and they come from universities on every continent.

Youth Digital Mental Health Training Needs in Academic and Industry Sectors

Simon Daniel, Audrey J. Michel, Bethany A. Teachman

University of Virginia · The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research · 2026

Principals’ Experiences with Implementation Practices for School Board Policies in an Urban School District

Andrea J. Richardson

Walden University · ScholarWorks (Walden University) · 2026

Developing and sustaining animal-assisted services at a tertiary medical center: A qualitative study

Jane Q. Yap, Cole W. Jensen, Whitney Romine, Lindsey Wallace

Mayo Clinic · Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice · 2026

Environmental health literacy among urban cyclists: insights from a citizen science study in Ljubljana

María Alejandra Rubio, Rok Novak, Carolyn Finck, David Kocman

Jožef Stefan Institute · Journal of Transport & Health · 2026

Perceptions of cyberspace: an architecture for a theoretic personal cyber risk management framework

Richard C. McGregor

James Cook University · ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University) · 2026

See all 222 thematic analysis studies →

Mixed methods

Mixed methods studies use Delve for the qualitative strand and set the coded findings beside their survey, scale, or trial results. Public health, education, medicine, and psychology account for most of them, and many are national or multi-site surveys where interviews or open-ended responses explain what the numbers showed.

Youth Digital Mental Health Training Needs in Academic and Industry Sectors

Simon Daniel, Audrey J. Michel, Bethany A. Teachman

University of Virginia · The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research · 2026

Environmental health literacy among urban cyclists: insights from a citizen science study in Ljubljana

María Alejandra Rubio, Rok Novak, Carolyn Finck, David Kocman

Jožef Stefan Institute · Journal of Transport & Health · 2026

Perceptions of cyberspace: an architecture for a theoretic personal cyber risk management framework

Richard C. McGregor

James Cook University · ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University) · 2026

A Comparison Of Barriers To Childhood Immunization Among Parents In Some Selected Rural And Urban Wards In Fune Lga, Yobe State, Nigeria

Dauda Bukar Dauda, Mustapha Umar Gaji, Abdullahi Harunab

Yobe State College of Agriculture, Science and Technology · International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews · 2026

Diagnostic delays, treatment timeliness, and patient experiences in triple-negative breast cancer: a mixed-methods study

Marcela Mazo Canola, Rebekkah Schear, Laura Housman, et al.

The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center · Frontiers in Oncology · 2026

See all 68 mixed methods studies →

Content analysis

Content analysis studies in Delve range from a handful of practitioner interviews to corpora of several hundred documents. Scoping and realist reviews are a distinctive use here: research teams in nursing, occupational health, and pharmacy have coded the included studies themselves in Delve rather than extracting into a spreadsheet.

A qualitative study of teens’ and parents’ perceptions of preventing teen drinking and driving

Jessica L. Borelli, Christina Xia, Frances Haofei Li, et al.

University of California, Irvine · Traffic Injury Prevention · 2026

Integrating Transformative Social-Emotional Learning in the Orchestra Classroom of Title I Schools

Amy Ellington

Liberty University · Liberty University Doctoral Dissertations · 2026

Physical and mental health of community health workers in Bolivia: Evidence from a large NGO-run program

Megan Mickelson, Yesenia Pooley, Patricia Monje Cuadrado, et al.

Brigham Young University · Journal of Community Systems for Health · 2026

Implementing women’s sexual and reproductive health interventions in prisons: a realist review

Joy Rickard, G. J. Melendez-Torres

University of Exeter · BMJ Open · 2026

Harnessing leadership experiences for improved healthcare delivery: A scoping review of the experiences of healthcare leaders in navigating crisis

Sheila A. Boamah, Mawukoenya Theresa Sedzro, Alexta Alexander, et al.

McMaster University · International Journal of Nursing Studies · 2026

See all 47 content analysis studies →

Grounded theory

Grounded theory researchers use Delve to move from open coding through axial and selective coding without losing track of the excerpts behind each category. The studies here come from education, public health, human-computer interaction, and business, and include work in npj Mental Health Research, BMJ Open, and the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies alongside several dissertations.

Perceptions of cyberspace: an architecture for a theoretic personal cyber risk management framework

Richard C. McGregor

James Cook University · ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University) · 2026

Negotiating the Place of Mindfulness in Individual Psychotherapy: a qualitative study of psychologists without formal mindfulness training

Ruta Adamone, David Goss, Savin Bapir‐Tardy

University of Roehampton · Counselling Psychology Quarterly · 2026

“We love our livestock”: relational care-based One Health in pastoral drylands

Evan F. Griffith, Angela Opondoh, Catherine Kaluwa, et al.

Tufts University · Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice · 2026

Exploring the Affective Domain in Technology Education: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Approach

Sheila Plunkett, Rónán Dunbar, Niall Seery

Technological University of the Shannon · Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings (PATT43) · 2026

Implementing women’s sexual and reproductive health interventions in prisons: a realist review

Joy Rickard, G. J. Melendez-Torres

University of Exeter · BMJ Open · 2026

See all 35 grounded theory studies →

Phenomenology

Phenomenological studies use Delve to stay close to participants’ own words while building toward a description of the experience. Most come from psychology, counseling, and health research: severe maternal morbidity, cardiac rehabilitation, parenting a child with medical complexity, help-seeking among police officers.

An Analysis of Artificial Intelligence Systems on the Teaching of Music Improvisation, Composition, and Instrumental Pedagogy

Carter K Murphey

Liberty University · Scholars Crossing (Liberty University) · 2026

Law Enforcement Help-Seeking Behaviors and Organizational Mental Health Supports

Jordan Elizabeth Longendorf

Walden University · ScholarWorks (Walden University) · 2026

Racial Trauma in Academia: Experiences of Black Women Counselor Educators

April D. Brown, LaShauna M. Dean, Matthew Lyons

University of the Cumberlands · The Professional Counselor · 2026

Exploring Policy Response and Quality of Care from Lessons Learned during COVID-19 in Moderate Testing, High-Complexity Laboratories in the Department of Defense

Carmen Alesia Bell

Walden University · ScholarWorks (Walden University) · 2026

Leading Like Christ: A Phenomenological Study of the Biblical Shepherd Motif in Christian Parachurch Executive Leadership

Alex Sefton

Liberty University · Scholars Crossing (Liberty University) · 2026

See all 21 phenomenology studies →

Narrative analysis

Narrative analysis studies use Delve to code within each participant’s story and then compare across stories without losing the sequence of events that gives a narrative its meaning.

Principals’ Experiences with Implementation Practices for School Board Policies in an Urban School District

Andrea J. Richardson

Walden University · ScholarWorks (Walden University) · 2026

Critical Care Nurses’ Self-Efficacy in Responding to Emergency Code Situations

Nesheemah Sabree

Walden University · ScholarWorks (Walden University) · 2026

Returning to Reach Higher: Exploring the Perceptions and Lived Experiences of Adult Learners Pursuing Bachelor's Degrees

Tijuana Rollins

University of Central Florida · Current Issues in Education · 2025

¡Adelante Mujer!: Testimonios of Chicana and Latina High School Principals

Blanca Rocio Esquivel

Claremont Graduate University · CGU Theses & Dissertations (Claremont Colleges Scholarship) · 2025

Building a Knowledge Bridge: School Counselors Collaborating with Construction Professionals on Career Development

David L. Mangas Jr.

Youngstown State University · ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Youngstown State University) · 2025

See all 11 narrative analysis studies →

Discourse analysis

Discourse analysis studies use Delve to code discursive features and recurring constructions across a corpus of documents, media, or interview talk.

“Glimmers of Hope”: Practitioners’ Perspectives of Racial Literacy with Young Children in England

Beth Wilkinson

Bath Spa University · Research in Education Curriculum and Pedagogy Global Perspectives · 2026

AI fetishism and perverse climate disavowal: Why denying destructiveness facilitates our ecological collapse

Alexander M. Stoner, Anthony J. Knowles

Northern Michigan University · Critical Sociology · 2025

The language of leadership at the onset of COVID-19 global crisis: A corpus-based and critical discourse analysis of six political leaders’ speeches

Elineth Elizabeth L. Suarez

University of the Philippines · Asian Journal of English Language Studies · 2025

Strategies for Word Order Variation Repair between English and Tshivenda at a Rural University

Farisani Thomas Nephawe

University of Venda · International Journal of Language and Literary Studies · 2022

Dispersion of Values: A Discursive Examination of Attitude Self-report Item Designs

Harley Dutcher

University of Michigan · University of Michigan (Doctor of Philosophy dissertation, Deep Blue) · 2022

See all 5 discourse analysis studies →

By field of study

Education

Education is the field with the most published Delve studies, and much of it is doctoral work: dissertations from universities across North America, Europe, and Asia, alongside journal articles in education research and instructional science journals. Higher education is the most common setting, with teacher preparation and K-12 classrooms well represented.

Principals’ Experiences with Implementation Practices for School Board Policies in an Urban School District

Andrea J. Richardson

Walden University · ScholarWorks (Walden University) · 2026

Integrating Transformative Social-Emotional Learning in the Orchestra Classroom of Title I Schools

Amy Ellington

Liberty University · Liberty University Doctoral Dissertations · 2026

An Analysis of Artificial Intelligence Systems on the Teaching of Music Improvisation, Composition, and Instrumental Pedagogy

Carter K Murphey

Liberty University · Scholars Crossing (Liberty University) · 2026

Experiences of students with specific learning disabilities as they transition to online college

Haley Kirkpatrick, Bridget Blakely

Drexel University · Drexel University Research Discovery · 2026

The Affective Experiences of Upper Elementary Students When Playing Card and Dice Games Intended to Develop Arithmetic Fluency

Cherie Michelle Lamont

University of Calgary · PRISM (University of Calgary) · 2026

See all 81 education studies →

Medicine

Medical research in Delve is usually a two-coder study published in a clinical journal, from Cancer Medicine and Frontiers in Oncology to the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. The studies cover patient experience, medical and surgical education, health services, and evidence reviews, and come from academic medical centers and universities on four continents.

Developing and sustaining animal-assisted services at a tertiary medical center: A qualitative study

Jane Q. Yap, Cole W. Jensen, Whitney Romine, Lindsey Wallace

Mayo Clinic · Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice · 2026

Diagnostic delays, treatment timeliness, and patient experiences in triple-negative breast cancer: a mixed-methods study

Marcela Mazo Canola, Rebekkah Schear, Laura Housman, et al.

The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center · Frontiers in Oncology · 2026

Assessing inclusivity from behind the screen: sexual and gender minority surgery residents’ experiences during virtual interviews

Aryana J. Jones, Cody M Dalton, Ryan K. Shabahang, et al.

Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital · Research Square · 2026

Teaching Hypothesis-Driven History taking at the Bedside: a qualitative study of perspectives, possibilities and precautions

Paul Lyons, Akash Maliampurakal, James Irvine, et al.

University of Glasgow · Research Square (preprint) · 2026

Let’s talk about pain: A mixed methods exploration of patients’ pain knowledge and preferred ways to introduce the biopsychosocial model of pain

Cynthia J. Thomson, Katherine N. Holden, Luisa V. Giles, Leanne Cianfrini

University of the Fraser Valley · Canadian Journal of Pain · 2026

See all 50 medicine studies →

Public health

Public health studies in Delve tend to be team efforts, often with a survey alongside. They include national programme reviews run with health ministries, multi-site studies of healthcare providers, work with international health agencies on climate and health, and scoping reviews in BMJ Open. Health services, community health, and global health are all represented.

A qualitative study of teens’ and parents’ perceptions of preventing teen drinking and driving

Jessica L. Borelli, Christina Xia, Frances Haofei Li, et al.

University of California, Irvine · Traffic Injury Prevention · 2026

Environmental health literacy among urban cyclists: insights from a citizen science study in Ljubljana

María Alejandra Rubio, Rok Novak, Carolyn Finck, David Kocman

Jožef Stefan Institute · Journal of Transport & Health · 2026

A Comparison Of Barriers To Childhood Immunization Among Parents In Some Selected Rural And Urban Wards In Fune Lga, Yobe State, Nigeria

Dauda Bukar Dauda, Mustapha Umar Gaji, Abdullahi Harunab

Yobe State College of Agriculture, Science and Technology · International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews · 2026

“We love our livestock”: relational care-based One Health in pastoral drylands

Evan F. Griffith, Angela Opondoh, Catherine Kaluwa, et al.

Tufts University · Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice · 2026

Physical and mental health of community health workers in Bolivia: Evidence from a large NGO-run program

Megan Mickelson, Yesenia Pooley, Patricia Monje Cuadrado, et al.

Brigham Young University · Journal of Community Systems for Health · 2026

See all 37 public health studies →

Psychology

Psychology studies use Delve for interview-based work where the account of coding and reflexivity matters. They span clinical, counseling, and community psychology, and often form the qualitative arm of an intervention study or trial: mindfulness programs, mobile mental health apps, couples therapy, recovery from trauma.

Youth Digital Mental Health Training Needs in Academic and Industry Sectors

Simon Daniel, Audrey J. Michel, Bethany A. Teachman

University of Virginia · The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research · 2026

Negotiating the Place of Mindfulness in Individual Psychotherapy: a qualitative study of psychologists without formal mindfulness training

Ruta Adamone, David Goss, Savin Bapir‐Tardy

University of Roehampton · Counselling Psychology Quarterly · 2026

“Wanting to Feel Safe Was Unsafe”: A Qualitative Study of Black Men’s Perceptions of Mental Health and Resilience in the Context of Community Violence Exposure

Nathan L. Smith, Anthony F. Greene, Andrew Schrack-Walters, Derrick M. Gordon

Fielding Graduate University · Journal of Black Psychology · 2026

Law Enforcement Help-Seeking Behaviors and Organizational Mental Health Supports

Jordan Elizabeth Longendorf

Walden University · ScholarWorks (Walden University) · 2026

Social Gathering and Motivations: Understanding What Draws Young Visitors to Urban Parks

Edgar Romario Aranibar Ramos, Miguel Angel Demetrio Olarte Pacco, Rosy Melany Parizaca Ninaja

Universidade de São Paulo · Revista de Psicología · 2026

See all 30 psychology studies →

HCI & computer science

HCI and computer science researchers use Delve for the qualitative strand of user studies, and the results show up at CHI, ICER, and ESEC/FSE and in ACM journals. The studies cover accessibility, social media use among teenagers, virtual reality, developer tools, and software product management.

Effectiveness of National ID as a Unique Identifier for Customer Onboarding in Financial Services in Bangladesh: A Survey

Muhammad Shakil Pervez, Md. Nasim Adnan, Ismat Rahman, et al.

University of Dhaka · Computer and Information Science · 2026

It Administrators' Perceptions of Phishing Susceptibility and Avoidance Behavior

Christina Ruth Bailey

Capella University · ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Capella University) · 2026

"Everyone's using it, but no one is allowed to talk about it": College Students' Experiences Navigating the Higher Education Environment in a Generative AI World

Yue Fu, Yifan Lin, Jessica Wang, et al.

University of Washington · arXiv · 2026

Software Product Management Enactment and Associated Competencies

Meri Piirainen

Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology · LUTPub · 2026

Accessibility Education for Software Engineers: Evaluating the Impact of Game-Based Learning

P D Parthasarathy, Swaroop Joshi

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani · ACM Transactions on Computing Education · 2025

See all 27 HCI and computer science studies →

Business & management

Business and management studies use Delve for practitioner interviews, often in a case study of one organization: a retail chain’s digital transformation, a federal tax authority, real estate agencies, CSR programs. About half are master’s or doctoral theses, from business schools in Brazil, South Africa, India, Thailand, and elsewhere.

Perceptions of cyberspace: an architecture for a theoretic personal cyber risk management framework

Richard C. McGregor

James Cook University · ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University) · 2026

Leading Like Christ: A Phenomenological Study of the Biblical Shepherd Motif in Christian Parachurch Executive Leadership

Alex Sefton

Liberty University · Scholars Crossing (Liberty University) · 2026

Executive Leadership in the Organizational Culture of U.S. Credit Unions: A Phenomenological Study

Petar anon

Bellevue University · SSRN Electronic Journal (Doctor of Business Administration study) · 2026

Individual-Level Determinants of ICT-Adoption and Utilisation in Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Tourism Enterprises

Adinani Sued, Emmanuel Elioth Lulandala, Baltazar M.L. Namwata

Moshi Co-operative University · East African Journal of Social and Applied Sciences · 2025

Generative AI in Higher Education Constituent Relationship Management (CRM): Opportunities, Challenges, and Implementation Strategies

Carrie H. Marcinkevage, Akhil Kumar

Pennsylvania State University · Computers · 2025

See all 21 business and management studies →

Communication & media

Communication and media researchers use Delve on texts as well as talk: political speeches, news coverage, influencer marketing, and consumer responses to social media posts. The studies come from Finland, Romania, the Philippines, New Zealand, and the United States.

Russian-language media landscape in Finland

Rasa Žakevičiūtė, Danil Lopatkin, Anastasia Prikazchikova, Daria Efimova

University of Jyväskylä · Jyväskylä University Digital Archive · 2026

Influencing the Influencers: Effects of an In-Person Summit on Tiktok Creators’ Mental Health Communication Habits and Beliefs

Meng Meng Xu, Elissa Scherer, Rebecca Robbins, et al.

Harvard University · Journal of Health Communication · 2025

The Impact of Aestheticized Influencer Marketing on Romanian Gen Z Females' Behaviors and Practices

Laura Boia, Delia Cristina Balaban

Babeș-Bolyai University · Styles of Communication · 2025

Eyes on the Prize: An Eye Tracking Study Exploring How Consumers Visually Engage with Beef Industry Social Media Content

Jana Grace Owen

Texas Tech University · ThinkTech (Texas Tech University) · 2025

The language of leadership at the onset of COVID-19 global crisis: A corpus-based and critical discourse analysis of six political leaders’ speeches

Elineth Elizabeth L. Suarez

University of the Philippines · Asian Journal of English Language Studies · 2025

See all 8 communication and media studies →

Sociology

Sociological studies use Delve for interviews, field notes, and documents, on subjects from police oversight and urban gentrification to community conservation and religious practice. Several are long-running projects with dozens of repeated interviews or hundreds of pages of field notes.

Firing Together, Reporting Alone: Contagious Fire and the Grammar of Force

Eric Dlugolenski, John DeCarlo, Kathleen E. Padilla

Central Connecticut State University · CrimRxiv · 2026

Banni Experience: Conservation, Community, and Gender Crossroads

Nikita Kaliravana

S P Jain Institute of Management and Research · Journal of Community Positive Practices · 2026

Intermediaries and the Service-Users Gap in Marginalised Schools

Giada Casarin, Maryam Karimi

Politecnico di Milano · SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology · 2026

AI fetishism and perverse climate disavowal: Why denying destructiveness facilitates our ecological collapse

Alexander M. Stoner, Anthony J. Knowles

Northern Michigan University · Critical Sociology · 2025

A Qualitative Study on Mettā Practice in Conflict Management among Myanmar Buddhists

Khin Maung Kyi

Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts · Journal of Media Journalism & Mass Communication · 2025

See all 10 sociology studies →

Nursing

Nursing researchers use Delve for patient and staff interviews and, increasingly, for evidence reviews, with work in the International Journal of Nursing Studies among the results.

Critical Care Nurses’ Self-Efficacy in Responding to Emergency Code Situations

Nesheemah Sabree

Walden University · ScholarWorks (Walden University) · 2026

Queer caregiving with older adults: A consultation exercise with two non-profit community organizations

Steven Hall, Darien Dyck, Devangi Rabari, Natasha Hubbard Murdoch

University of Saskatchewan · PEC Global · 2026

Harnessing leadership experiences for improved healthcare delivery: A scoping review of the experiences of healthcare leaders in navigating crisis

Sheila A. Boamah, Mawukoenya Theresa Sedzro, Alexta Alexander, et al.

McMaster University · International Journal of Nursing Studies · 2026

Coping in crisis: a qualitative study of stress and resilience in Ontario's long-term care workforce

Sheila A. Boamah, Farzana Akter, Mawukoenya Theresa Sedzro

McMaster University · Frontiers in Health Services · 2026