Advanced Analysis of Qualitative Data using Nvivo and other software 2012-2
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Responsible: Associate Professor Merete Watt Boolsen, University of Copenhagen. & Dr. Christina Silver, University of Surrey
From: 2012/09/11 to: 2012/09/14
Registration Deadline: 2012/07/01
Place: University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen
Fee: 60 Euro
ECTS (Get approval from your own department!!!): 3.5
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.
Lecturers: Associate Professor Merete Watt Boolsen, University of Copenhagen. & Dr. Christina Silver, University of Surrey
Further information: bjerke@polforsk.dk
September
11 9am
– 12pm Merete
Watt Boolsen:
Introduction
to the NVivo way of thinking. The
NVivo workspace. Coding
procedures. PLEASE
ALSO BRING A MOUSE, because it is so much easier … Perhaps
– if need – also class from 1pm-3pm September
12
9am – 12pm
Christina
Silver : Using NVivo to analyse your data This
session will consist of teacher input, discussions and hands-on
work with software. During this session the professors will spend
time with each student to support work with their own data. 9am
- 10.30am : Reminders and individual support The
importance of memoing Transcribing,
audio 10.45am
– 12pm : NVivo as a project management tool Using
NVivo for your literature review LITTERATURE: September
12
1pm – 4pm Ph.d-Presentations
of projects and use of software in English. Your
project has been discussed by both professors and you have
received their feedback. CS
has given you feedback with regard to the relevance of using NVivo
or other of the programmes that will be looked at during the
course in each project. MWB has given you feedback with
regard to (possible) theoretical and analytical methods in each
project. This
session is now devoted to how you have ‘translated’ the
feedback into your workplan for the workshop: (1) what data have
you chosen? and (2) what analytical strategy have you chosen? Be
prepared to talk for about 10 minutes about this. And to hand in
your proposal by mail. September
13
9am – 12pm
Christina
Silver : Using NVivo to analyse your data This
session consists of teacher input, discussions and hands-on work
with software. During this session the professors will spend time
with students to support work with their own data. September
13
1pm
– 4pm 1pm
– 2.30pm: Interrogation
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: September
14
9am – 12pm
Merete
Watt Boolsen: Discussion of the role of software for qualitative
data analysis in different research designs Different
analytical theories applied: grounded theory, discourse analysis,
narrative analysis, analysis
of taped recorded interviews, etc. Examples
of NVivo in research projects. LITTERATURE: Summing
up Christina
Silver: Discussion about the role of software in different project
contexts, with a focus on audiovisual data and common qualitative
approaches Overview
of software options for audiovisual analysis
Demonstration
and Practice working with audiovisual data in NVivo
Ann
Lewins and Christina Silver, 2007: Using Software in Qualitative
Research. Sage. Chapters 9 – 12 (can be purchased at this link:
http://www.amazon.com/Using-Software-Qualitative-Research-Step/dp/0761949232)
Ann
Lewins and Christina Silver, 2007: Using Software in Qualitative
Research. Sage,
Appendices
Martin
Bauer & George Gaskell, 2000: Qualitative Researching with text,
image and sound. Sage. Part II. Pages 131-281 (can be purchased at
this link:
http://www.amazon.com/Qualitative-Researching-Text-Image-Sound/dp/0761964819)
By
August 20, 2012 you must send a description of your project and data
to the paper@polforsk.dk. The
description should be 3 pages max. And it should cover the following
points: Title Problem
under investigation and theory Time
schedule of project Data
collection and type of data What
part of your data do you want to work with during the course? Intended
analytical approach Previous
experience with NVivo Please, observe concerning your paper: Requirements 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
theory of science into consideration. It focuses on how to get the
maximum advantage from using CAQDAS?
It is a requirement for participation that the participants bring with them a laptop
with Nvivo already installed and fully working. A free trial of Nvivo 9
may be downloaded from:
http://www.qsrinternational.com/products_nvivo_free-trial-software.aspx
You are also expected to make
yourself familiar with the basic concepts of using software to analyse qualitative data by studying ch. 1-8 of Lewins
& Silvers book: "Using software in qualitative research".
The course consists of two parts:
1. Introduction to and overview of Nvivo, Sep 11. The purpose of the day is to establish a common knowledge of Nvivo.
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 Sep 15.
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.
2. The advanced course, Sep 12-14. 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, and analysis of interviews.
Program
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.
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.
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.
Analysing
audiovisual data using software:
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.
Similarities and differences between packages
Critique of
software tools
Data Handling
Data Analysis
Data RepresentationLiterature
overview
Description of your own project
- it should be in PDF-format,
- the file name should start with YOUR SURNAME and include the titel and number of pages.
- there should be NO BLANKS or special characters (parantheses, ö, æ, ø, å, é, etc) in the file name
- example: doe_john-politics_of_lazyness-12_pages.pdf
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