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Digital Skills Workshops for PhD Students (UNIGE and Geneva Graduate Institute)

NVivo Clinic, 18 October 2024, 09:00-16:00, on site.

Christina Silver

DS49 - NVivo clinic
Christina Silver

18 October 2024, 09:00-16:00, room S12

This session is designed for students who have started using NVivo for their research and need some support to move their projects and use of NVivo’s tools to the next level. The exact content will be designed specially for the students who attend (you will fill out a pre-session questionnaire when registering so the tutor can understand your needs). Topics are likely to include: Moving on from coding; Making the most of.

The session will combine structured instructional sessions focusing on specific topics, small-group discussions and exercises and illustrative examples of the use of NVivo for different types of project. There will also be opportunities for students to discuss their work-in-progress and receive individual support from the tutor. 

Christina has been using and teaching qualitative data analysis software packages for over 20 years. She has conducted many different research projects with and without the use of qualitative software and has designed and carried out analysis for many independent organisations. She has taught under- and post-graduate qualitative methods courses in UK and European universities and has contributed to doctoral programmes across several institutions. As well as being director of Qualitative Data Analysis Services Ltd, she is leads and directs the CAQDAS Networking Project at the University of Surrey.
Christina is co-author of Using Software in Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide with Ann Lewins and The Five-Level QDA® method with Nicholas Woolf.

PhD students of the Graduate Institute will be informed of each workshop by email.  For any questions regarding registration to the workshop, please contact: emma.cranfield@graduateinstitute.ch 

Getting started with NVivo to manage the whole research process, 3 September 2024, 09:00 - 13:00 CET, online

Christina Silver

DS46 - Getting started with NVivo to manage the whole research process
Christina Silver

3 September 2024, 09:00 - 13:00 CET, online

 

This session will introduce NVivo to set-up its use to manage the research process. We begin with an overview of the role of NVivo in the research process and an orientation to its capabilities. This includes how NVivo can be used to facilitate a literature review and to analyse qualitative data (e.g. transcripts, visual materials, reports, online content etc) and mixed data (e.g. open and closed survey responses etc). In addition we consider key considerations for planning a computer-assisted analysis and discuss the potential role of AI in the process, and the ethical implications. This session is designed for those who are beginning their research and completely new to NVivo, and will also serve as review and consolidation to those who have already started doing their research and using NVivo. 

Christina has been using and teaching qualitative data analysis software packages for over 20 years. She has conducted many different research projects with and without the use of qualitative software and has designed and carried out analysis for many independent organisations. She has taught under- and post-graduate qualitative methods courses in UK and European universities and has contributed to doctoral programmes across several institutions. As well as being director of Qualitative Data Analysis Services Ltd, she is leads and directs the CAQDAS Networking Project at the University of Surrey.
Christina is co-author of Using Software in Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide with Ann Lewins and The Five-Level QDA® method with Nicholas Woolf.

PhD students of the Graduate Institute will be informed of each workshop by email.  For any questions regarding registration to the workshop, please contact: emma.cranfield@graduateinstitute.ch 

NVivo for Literature Reviewing - 17, 19, 20 October 2023, 09:00 - 13:00 CET, online

Christina Silver

DS41 - NVivo for Literature Reviewing
Christina Silver

 

The NVivo for Literature Reviewing workshop combines discussion, demonstration and hands-on practice, using sample data and (optionally) your own research data. It follows the principles described in Woolf & Silver (2018) Qualitative Analysis using NVivo, the Five-Level QDA method and is led by Christina Silver, PhD. 

The workshop is divided into 3 sessions (17, 19, 20 October 2023, 09:00 - 13:00 CET, online) and includes:

  • Contextual illustrations – methodological and analytical principles, uses of NVivo for different types of literature review (e.g. in-depth literature review, scoping review, systematic review, etc.) 
  • Software Overview – interface, architecture, components, actions and tools
  • Guided Instruction – step-by-step instruction in using NVivo  
  • Group discussions and feedback - small-group breakouts to work on exercises together, discuss tasks and feedback  
  • Individual work - to consolidate understandings and put learning into practice  

Please note that students should attend the first session as sessions 2 & 3 build on that.  However, it is possible to attend 1 & 2 or 1 & 3 if it is not possible to join all 3 sessions. 

Session 1

October 17th 2023

09:00 - 13:00 CET, online

  • Welcome and Introductions
  • Literature reviewing in the analytic workflow
    • Types of literature review
    • Analytic activities when reviewing literature
  • Introduction to NVivo’s components
    • Focusing on components described in Woolf & Silver 2018, chapter 5 – Files, Folders, References, Nodes, Coded-References, Cases, Attribute-Values, Query-Results, Sets & SearchFolders, Annotations, Memos, Maps, and Charts
  • Guided walk-through of a literature review project in NVivo
  • Preparing data for analysis – working with Reference Manager tools (e.g. Zotero, Endnote etc.)
  • Setting up an NVivo project and importing literature files
    • Specifying Objectives and review questions
    • Using NVivo Maps and Memos as planning devices 

Session 2

October 19th 2023

09:00 - 13:00 CET, online

  • Identifying relevant materials
    • Exploring Titles, Abstracts, and Keywords
    • Screening for relevance
    • Annotating to capture initial thoughts
  • Capturing evidence and meaning in literature
    • Qualitative capturing (coding at different levels (segments/ concepts/ article…)
    • Quantitative capturing (facts about evidence captured at different stages)
    • Assessing quality – exploring qualitative/quantitative criteria for capturing quality
    • Retrieval and review of coded data)

Session 3

October 20th 2023

09:00 - 13:00 CET, online

  • Appraising and Synthesising Evidence
    • Interrogating patterns and relationships within and between data (e.g. queries)
      • Quantitative synthesis (e.g., Charts and Tables for quantifying coding)
      • Qualitative synthesis (e.g., Maps, Memos, Matrices etc…)
  • Communicating Findings  
    • Making and managing interpretations
    • Pulling the strands together to present an argument
    • Visualising and exporting  
  • Round up
    • Next steps with NVivo  
    • Planning for incorporating other qualitative materials
    • Pulling the analysis together to communicate process and findings  

 

Christina has been using and teaching qualitative data analysis software packages for over 20 years. She has conducted many different research projects with and without the use of qualitative software and has designed and carried out analysis for many independent organisations. She has taught under- and post-graduate qualitative methods courses in UK and European universities and has contributed to doctoral programmes across several institutions. As well as being director of Qualitative Data Analysis Services Ltd, she is leads and directs the CAQDAS Networking Project at the University of Surrey.
Christina is co-author of Using Software in Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide with Ann Lewins and The Five-Level QDA® method with Nicholas Woolf.

PhD students of the Graduate Institute will be informed of each workshop by email.  For any questions regarding registration to the workshop, please contact: emma.cranfield@graduateinstitute.ch 

NVivo Tuesday 2nd May 2023 - Wednesday 3rd May 2023 - Friday 5th May 2023, 09:00 - 13:00 CET, online

Christina Silver

DS39 - NVivo
Christina Silver

The NVivo workshop combines discussion, demonstration and hands-on practice, using sample data and
(optionally) your own research data. It follows the principles described in Woolf & Silver (2018) Qualitative Analysis using NVivo, the Five-Level QDA® method.

The workshop is divided into 3 sessions over 3 days: 

Session 1:  Tuesday 2nd May 2023, 09:00 - 13:00 CET, online  
Contextual illustrations – methodological and analytical principles, uses of NVivo in different contexts
  • Analytic activities in qualitative and mixed methods analysis
  • Introduction to NVivo components
  • Guided walk-through of an analysis project in NVivo
  • Preparing data for analysis – transcription and data formatting
  • Setting up an NVivo project and importing data files
Session 2:  Wednesday 3rd May 2023, 09:00 - 13:00 CET, online
Software Overview – interface, architecture, components, actions and tools
  • Exploring data – annotating data, word frequency & text-search queries
  • Coding qualitative data – indictive, deductive and combined approaches
  • Retrieval and review of coded data
Session 3:  Friday 5th May 2023, 09:00 - 13:00 CET, online

Guided Instruction – step-by-step teaching in the operation of NVivo and the use of tools for analytic tasks

  • Organising factual characteristics – cases, classifications, attribute-values
  • Interrogating patterns and relationships within and between data – introduction to queries
  • Visualising and Exporting data
 

Christina has been using and teaching qualitative data analysis software packages for over 20 years. She has conducted many different research projects with and without the use of qualitative software and has designed and carried out analysis for many independent organisations. She has taught under- and post-graduate qualitative methods courses in UK and European universities and has contributed to doctoral programmes across several institutions. As well as being director of Qualitative Data Analysis Services Ltd, she is leads and directs the CAQDAS Networking Project at the University of Surrey.

Christina is co-author of Using Software in Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide with Ann Lewins and The Five-Level QDA® method with Nicholas Woolf.

 

PhD students of the Graduate Institute will be informed of each workshop by email.  For any questions regarding registration to the workshop, please contact: emma.cranfield@graduateinstitute.ch 

 

Nvivo: Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo12

Nvivo: Qualitative Data Analysis with Nvivo12 (Elif Kus Saillard, 8h)

In this hands-on workshop, we will work on sample qualitative data and experience qualitative data analysis steps with NVivo. We will experience different qualitative coding strategies with methodological guidance, use the relationship query features of the software, and prepare a visual report. The question of "why" as well as "how" will find an answer throughout the workshop. In this way, the possibilities offered by the software will be presented in a holistic framework.

 

This workshop will take place online:

  • Weekly on Mondays, from 11 January until 1 February 2021, 14:00-15:45

 

Dr. Elif Kus Saillard is a sociologist expert in Computer Aided Qualitative Data AnalysiS (CAQDAS). Since 2007  she has been teaching, training, and coaching social  researchers about qualitative methodology and data  analysis. She was a leading figure in Turkey, where  thousands of social researchers participated in her  workshops. She published books and articles in international journals. Her digital training experience goes back to 2015.

For any questions regarding registration to the workshop, please contact: emma.cranfield@graduateinstitute.ch