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Advanced Qualitative Data Analysis using NVivo 9 (3 days) (CANCELLED)

Cancellation Notice:
This course has been cancelled for Summer Programme 2012 due to insufficient enrolments. We will endeavour to run it again in a future NZSSN short course programme; if you are interested in such a course, please let us know in the meantime so that we can provide targetted followup when the time comes.
Dates: 
February 20, 2012 - February 22, 2012
Instructor: 
Dr Leonie Daws

The course is designed as an advanced course in qualitative data analysis for existing NVivo users. Those choosing to enrol in this course will normally be working on a research project on their own, or as part of a research team. They will be seeking to advance their knowledge and skills in higher-level data analysis, theory building, validating findings, and producing reports and accounts. It assumes basic mastery of skills in data management and analysis, including coding. The course builds on these skills to equip users to undertake advanced data analysis, and to produce effective accounts of their research. The focus is on applying advanced tools from the NVivo tool kit to research in progress through hands-on experience. Sample NVivo projects will be provided but participants should bring a current NVivo project of their own.
 

Prerequisites: 

Completion of Applied Computer-assisted Qualitative Data Analysis using NVivo or equivalent tertiary course and experience with NVivo.
 

Learning Objectives: 

Part I: Advanced data analysis. Exploring themes and patterns using advanced Queries, Similarity Diagrams, Tree Maps and other exploration tools. Critiquing coding structures. Moving from descriptive coding to categorical, thematic, conceptual or theoretical coding.
 
Part II: Testing hypotheses and establishing credibility. Posing questions to test the strength of emerging propositions and/or conclusions drawn from data analysis. Identifying ways of answering these questions using Queries and other exploration and visualisation tools in NVivo.
 
Part III: Building an account. Critiquing reports of current research that have used NVivo to establish criteria for good reporting. Using NVivo’s tools for representing and reporting findings: generating reports, visualising, charting and mapping concepts, exporting material, and interfacing with other software including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
 

References: 

Bazeley, P. (2007). Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo. London: Sage.

Richards, L. (2009). Handling Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide (Second Edition). London: Sage.

Saldana, J. (2009) The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. London: Sage.