Harnessing NVivo for qualitative and mixed-methods analysis

Date:

26/06/2023 - 30/06/2023

Organised by:

University of Manchester

Presenter:

Dr Christina Silver

Level:

Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)

Contact:

methods@manchester.ac.uk

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Venue: Online

Description:

Overview

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to harnessing NVivo to accomplish qualitative and mixed methods analysis. It follows the principles of ensuring analytic strategies drive the use of software tools as described in the CAQDAS pedagogy, the Five-Level QDA method, providing participants with both theoretical understandings of the role of software like NVivo in the analysis process, and practical experience with operating the software to accomplish a variety of analytic tasks.

Participants will be guided through all the phases of an analysis and how they can be facilitated through the creative and systematic use of NVivo. This includes planning an analysis and creating a structural framework to reflect initial research designs; familiarising with qualitative materials (at an in-depth interpretive level and at a higher content-based level); coding qualitative data using different analytic approaches (contrasting inductive, grounded approaches and deductive, topic or theoretically informed approaches); using software tools to capture reflections through writing, mapping and linking; organising data to factual characteristics; interrogating patterns and relationships to identify themes, make comparisons and explore anomalies; and using visualisations to communicate findings in engaging and powerful ways.

The course combines demonstrations, discussions, presentations, group-work and feedback, and participants are encouraged to bring project data with them to work with during the sessions, although sample materials will also be available to use.

 

Course objectives

  • To understand the role of NVivo in the analytic cycle
  • To develop a detailed working understanding of the capabilities of NVivo for facilitating qualitative and mixed-methods data analysis
  • To be able to plan an analysis using NVivo tools
  • To understand how to prepare qualitative materials of different types for efficient analysis within NVivo
  • To be able to harness NVivo tools powerfully for a range of analytic activities, including data integration and organisation, qualitative coding and memoing, classifying factual characteristics (including participant demographics and document metadata), interrogating patterns, relationships and anomalies, managing interpretations, and visualising and presenting findings

 

Course requirements

Participants should have a general understanding of the principles of doing qualitative data analysis, including the idea of coding and memoing as key analytic tasks.

There is no need to have used NVivo before attending the course, but participants are encouraged to have completed pre-course familiarisation tasks, that will be provided when registering.

Participants are required to bring their own laptop.

 

Who is this course for?

PGR students, academics and researchers working in any discipline or context doing qualitative or mixed-methods projects.

Cost:

£900 General | £600 Students

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International

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