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Are you planning to conduct interviews or focus groups for your data collection, or perhaps do participant observation during events or meetings? Or will you be collecting policy papers, press articles, or Internet data from blogs, Facebook or Twitter?
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If you do any of the above, you will soon or later have to face the pile of data you collected and analyse them. Will you know how? This course provides strategic understanding and applied skills in planning, conducting, and reporting the process of qualitative data analysis (QDA) in one’s research. Please see full.
What is qualitative data analysis? Qualitative analysis is the search for patterns in textual, visual or artefact data to uncover associations, identify relationships and propose explanations about the studied phenomenon.
The process of analysis involves several steps, often described in sequence although much intertwined in practice, known as getting familiar with the material, coding the data, identifying patterns and generating results and presenting findings. A range of methods of qualitative analysis exists (thematic analysis, grounded theory, content analysis, etc.) all of which come with their epistemological standpoint, sampling requirements, coding procedures, techniques to generate findings and quality criteria. This course does not focus on a method of qualitative analysis in particular; rather, it explores the common denominators all methods share and provides tools and food for thought to implement them in practice. Why is this course relevant? Historically, qualitative analysis has been criticised for being opaque and subjective given that it is sometimes difficult to see how researchers went from hundreds of interview pages to a handful of conclusions since no discussion is provided about what the researchers actually did when they analysed their data. For this reason, qualitative analysis has been associated with a ‘black box’ problem: we are told about what data and how they were collected and what results these yielded, but nothing in between.
There is also a misconception that qualitative analysis merely involves the identification of themes in the data and the reporting of themes in the form of quotes, often lots of them. The analytical task researchers should be concerned about - that is, the examination of commonalities and differences across units of analysis, discovering patterns and relationships across the data, and synthesizing these in a storyline, model, or schema - is most frequently than not absent in published qualitative studies.
Conversely, the widespread myths that the ‘method will emerge’ from the data, or that researcher’s tacit knowledge will lead him/her to ‘make sense’ of the data, account for opaque reporting since no audit trail accompany the analytic process. What contribution does this course make? This course teaches the key concepts to plan, conduct and report qualitative analysis in a transparent, traceable and auditable way in one’s research. Participants will learn (1) key design issues to take into account when planning the phase of analysis in qualitative study, (2) different approaches to code qualitative data, (3) strategies to transform qualitative data into findings, (4) debates about the quality of qualitative research and techniques to confirm the trustworthiness of qualitative findings and (5) best and worse practices when presenting qualitative findings in doctoral theses and journal articles. The different stages of qualitative analysis will be demonstrated with NVivo software so participants can put into practice the concepts seen and become cognizant of the advantages and pitfalls of using QDA software. To that end, participants are invited to use NVivo 12 Pro for Windows or NVivo 12 for Mac or other QDA software they are familiar with.
See below the section Software and Hardware Requirements. NVivo software is used for the workshop sessions in class. Participants are invited to install NVivo 12 Pro for Windows or NVivo 12 Mac on their laptop or other QDA software they are familiar with for the course. Demonstrations, however, as well as troubleshooting will only be done for NVivo. The NVivo 14-day free trial for Windows or Mac can be downloaded.
It is your responsibility to ensure that NVivo works well on your laptop before the course as no troubleshooting will be provided during or outside teaching hours by the instructor, teaching assistant, ECPR staff, or CEU IT services. Once NVivo is installed on your laptop, verify that it works properly. Follow the instructions below. Launch NVivo.
On the Start screen (Windows version), in the New section, click Sample Project. On the Welcome to NVivo for Mac screen (Mac version), click Create a copy of the sample project. NVivo opens a copy of the sample project which is stored in your default project location. If you can’t open the sample project, contact QSR international by submitting a online (see section Contact Us Online at the bottom of the page). Participants to bring their own laptop with software installed.