Harnessing NVivo for Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research

Date:

05/09/2023 - 08/09/2023

Organised by:

Qualitative Data Analysis Services

Presenter:

Dr Christina Silver

Level:

Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)

Contact:

Christina Silver, christina.silver@qdaservices.co.uk

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Venue: Online

Description:

This is a 3 day course, running 5th, 6th & 8th September.  

 

This seminar, taught by leading expert professor Christina Silver, provides you with a comprehensive introduction to NVivo and how to harness its tools powerfully.

The phrase ‘harness NVivo powerfully’ isn’t a fancy way of saying ‘operating NVivo well’, but means learning to take full advantage of the program in every stage of a project while remaining true to the emergent spirit of qualitative research. Learning to do this effectively so that you can use NVivo for your own research is the purpose of this comprehensive 3-day seminar.

The seminar combines discussion, demonstration, and hands-on practice, using sample data and (optionally for you) your own research data. It follows the principles described in Woolf & Silver (2018) Qualitative Analysis using NVivo, the Five-Level QDA® method  which details the process of harnessing NVivo powerfully.

 

This seminar is also part of a 3-seminar series Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research Using NVivo, which allows registering for all three seminars with a 10% discount.

 

 This NVivo seminar is divided into nine topics over three days, and includes the following teaching and learning activities:

  • Contextual illustrations – methodological and analytical principles, uses of NVivo in different contexts (e.g. for literature reviewing, for analysis of empirical data collected for a specific study, for secondary analysis of qualitative materials);
  • Software demonstrations – interface, architecture, components, actions and tools;
  • Guided Instruction – step-by-step teaching in the operation of NVivo and the use of tools for analytic tasks;
  • Group discussions and feedback - discussion to work on exercises together, explore tasks and feedback; and
  • Individual work - to consolidate understandings and put learning into practice in your own contexts.

 

You will be guided through all the phases of an analysis, with an emphasis on how to accomplish them using NVivo’s tools creatively and systematically.

This includes planning an analysis and creating structural frameworks to reflect initial research designs; familiarizing 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.

Combining demonstrations, discussions, presentations, group-work and feedback, you are encouraged to bring project data with you to work with and discuss during the sessions, although sample materials will also be available to use. 

 

The seminar will be taught via Zoom and features daily take-home skill challenges, and all seminar Zoom recordings and material (including analysis scripts, data, and slides) will be available online for 30 days after the seminar begins – just in case you would prefer to attend asynchronously or you would like to get back and revisit the seminar content after it concludes. An online seminar Q&A forum will also be monitored by the instructor during the seminar and for 30 days after the seminar concludes, so that you can ask questions related to seminar content outside of the live seminar sessions. An official Instats certificate of completion is provided at the conclusion of the seminar. For European university students, the seminar offers 2 ECTS Equivalent points, which are indicated on the certificate of completion that is provided at the conclusion of each seminar (see the Instats FAQ for details).

Cost:

Researcher £319 / £223. | Student £212 / £148

Website and registration:

Region:

International

Keywords:

Nvivo

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