Advanced Analysis of Qualitative Data using Software
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Responsible: Polforsk, Professor Merete Watt Boolsen, University of Copenhagen & Dr. Christina Silver, University of Surrey
From: 2010/10/27 to: 2010/10/29
Subscription Deadline: 2010/09/20
Place: University of Copenhagen
Fee: 450 kr
ECTS (Get approval from your own department!!!): 3
Short description: Polforsk and Professor Merete Watt Boolsen are happy to offer a Ph.d course with Dr. Christina Silver, QDA Services and the University of Surrey, UK, who is an international expert on using software in qualitative data analysis. Dr. Christina Silver's research field is Computer Assisted Qualitative Data AnalysiS(CAQDAS). Professor Merete Watt Boolsen's field of research is social science method. Thanks to the collaboration between these two researchers, Polforsk now offers a Ph.D. course in the use of CAQDAS at the highest level. The course is aimed at using CAQDAS in general. However, since Nvivo is the most used CAQDAS in Denmark, and the course focuses on hands-on use of CAQDAS, Nvivo is the tool focused on for the practical aspects. Ph.D. students not acquainted with Nvivo, can attend an introduction course the 4th October., which you can register for this part of the course under "Introduction for Nvivo.
27 th October 9am – 12pm 1pm – 4pm Christina Silver : Using
NVivo to analyse your data (Part Two) This session will
consist of teacher input, discussions and hands-on work with software.
During this session the tutors will spend time with each student to
support work with their own data. 9am - 10.30am : Reminders and
individual support 10.45am – 12pm : NVivo as a
project management tool LITTERATURE: Ph.d-Presentations of
projects and use of software in English. By October 11 you
must send a description of your project and data to the Polforsk
secretariat – in English and max. 4 pages.
The structure and content of your description should answer the
following questions: With regard to feedback: 28 th October 9am – 12pm 1pm – 4pm Christina Silver : Choosing
the right software package for your study Discussion and
demonstration of the range of software options available to support
qualitative data analysis. These will be discussed in terms of
practical utility and methodological contexts. Examples from students’
projects will be used to illustrate some of the differences. Software
packages discussed include ATLAS.ti, MAXqda, NVivo, QDA Miner, and
Transana. Demonstrations
will focus on distinguishing elements of each packages and are designed
to provide a ‘flavour’ of each to enable students to make an informed
choice. This session will be accompanied by documentation providing
further written detail about differences between packages. LITTERATURE: Ann Lewins and Christina Silver, 2007: Using Software
in Qualitative Research. Sage, Appendices. Also see http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/softwareoptions.html for up-to-date reviews Christina Silver : Using
NVivo to analyse your data (Part Three) This session
consists of teacher input, discussions and hands-on work with software.
During this session the tutors will spend time with students to support
work with their own data. This session will
be designed around the needs of students according to the work they
have achieved working with NVivo so far. Each student will be asked to
briefly outline the key ways in which they expect the software to
facilitate their analysis and to ask any specific questions they may
have. LITTERATURE: 29 th October 9am – 12pm 1pm – 4pm Christina Silver Discussion
about the role of software in different project contexts, with a focus
on audiovisual data and common qualitative approaches.: Merete Watt
Boolsen: Ph.D. The role of software for qualitative data
analysis in different research designs.: Different
analytical theories applied: Examples of NVivo
in research projects. LITTERATURE: Summing upRequirements and course overview
This Ph.d course not only teaches you advanced use Computer Assisted
Qualitative Data AnalysiS (CAQDAS), but also teaches how to integrate
the use of CAQDAS into your Ph.d project and dissertation while taking
the theory of science into consideration. It focuses on how to get the
maximum advantage from using CAQDAS?
The course consists of two parts:
1. Introduction to Nvivo, October 15. This day is for Ph.d students who
are not familiar with using NVivo. It takes place 12 days before the
advanced part of the course so that participants can get hands-on
experience with using NVivo before they participate in the advanced
course. It is a requirement that participants bring with them a laptop
with Nvivo already installed and fully working. A free trial of Nvivo 8
may be downloaded from:
http://www.qsrinternational.com/products_nvivo_free-trial-software.aspx
It is recommended that at least one week before the course you check
out that you can bring a computer with a working Nvivo installation. In
case you have problems with this, please get hold on us at least one
week before the course. If you intend to use the trial version of
Nvivo, ensure that it will not expire before October 30.
The introduction day will teach you the basics about how to use Nvivo
in your project. You will get an overview of the software and learn to
prepare your data for Nvivo. Moreover, you will learn to make
annotations, to search, to code, to recode, as well as to establish
coding schemes and to retrieve data. However, you are expected to make
yourself familiar with these concepts by studying ch. 1-8 of Lewins
& Silvers book: "Using software in qualitative research".
2. The advanced course, October 27-29. It is a condition for
participating in this course that you have hand-on experience with
using NVivo. If you do have such experience, you need not participate
in the introduction day. It is a precondition that you bring a computer
with a working NVivo installation. You are expected to be familiar with
the concepts of annotations, searching, coding, recoding, code schemes
and retrieval of data. If you are not, you must make yourself familiar
with the concepts by studying ch. 1-8 of Lewins & Silver book. The
course introduces advanced retrieval and coding schemes, as well as how
to use memos to manage the writing process. The use of CAQDAS to handle
literature and audio-visual data (e.g. TV-clips) is also introduced. To
direct the attention to how Nvivo and other CAQDAS interface with your
practical and theoretical work, Nvivo is compared to other CAQDAS
packages. The purpose is also help Ph.d students make informed choices
between CAQDAS packages for his/her project. The course focuses on Ph.d
students’ own projects and helps them move towards advanced use of
CAQDAS to interrogate data and make reports. Eventually, the use of
CAQDAS is related to the methodological principles of grounded theory,
discourse analysis, narrative analysis, analysis of interviews.
Programme
Coding schema structures : principles
Advanced coding and retrieval
Analysing audio-visual data using NVivo
Autocoding for structure and content
Ann Lewins and Christina Silver, 2007: Using Software in Qualitative
Research. Sage. Chapters 9 – 12.
(2) Time schedule of project.
(3) Data collection and type of data: what data do you want to work
with during the course?
(4) your proposed analytic strategy
(5) your previous experience, if any, with qualitative software
Principles of using qualitative software
Summary of similarities and differences
9.30am – 12pm Demonstrations of Selected CAQDAS packages
9.30am – 10am : Demonstration of MAXqda
10am – 10.30am : Demonstration of ATLAS.ti
11am – 11.30am : Demonstration of QDA Miner
11.30am – 12pm : Demonstration of Transana
1pm – 2.30pm : Interrogation
Moving forwards : using sets and models to theorize
Interrogating the dataset using the Query Tool
Representing data : Charts and Output functions
Mapping ideas and organising data.
2.45pm – 4pm : Reminders, Questions and Discussion
Reminders of key principles of qualitative software
Reminders about early set-up procedures
Questions from students
Discussion of the value of NVivo for individual projects
Ann Lewins and Christina Silver, 2007: Using Software in Qualitative
Research. Sage. Chapters 9 – 12.
Analysing
audiovisual data using
software : 9am – 12pm
Discussion and
demonstration of the range
of software options for the analysis of audiovisual data. A critique of
current options will be provided in the context of methodological
approaches and practical needs.
9am – 10am
Overview of software options
for audiovisual analysis
Similarities
and differences between
packages
Critique of
software tools
10.30am –
12pm Demonstration and
Practice working with audiovisual data in NVivo
Data Handling
Data Analysis
Data
Representation
Martin Bauer & George Gaskell, 2000: Qualitative Researching with text, image and sound. Sage.
Part II. Pages 131-281
Conclusions and
consequences for Ph.D. projects - where do you go from here? What are
adequate next steps ... etc.
Literature overview
PLEASE NOTE:
POLFORSK WILL NOT MAKE A COMPENDIUM FOR THIS COURSE AND YOU WILL HAVE AQQUIRE THE LITERATURE BY YOURSELF.
Deadlines
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