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I'm teaching a two-day interactive course on **handling** qualitative data,
next month, in Sydney. Not on any software, rather on why you would be
wanting to do this and what to do with qualitative data if you get some.
I'm well aware that this is a highly controversial thing to do in two days -
I too used to teach a year on QDA! But I'm responding to the rapidly growing
number of researchers confronted by qualitative records and equipped with a
software package but no prior research training. The course is aiming to
offer a sense that this sort of data can be handled, a guide to the
challenges and an introduction to some of the techniques for data access and
interpretation used across the many methods, and where to go to read about
those methods. The aim is that the researcher who otherwise comes to such
data with no background and growing challenges from research design onwards
should be able to approach the design stage and the learning of software
with a sense of what they are trying to do, and why in this context, with
this research problem, they would be trying to do that.
I'd be interested to hear from listmembers about this approach - and what
they'd look for, or try to fit in, such a course!
(And if you're in the right hemisphere and want to join in, the course is
16-17th November, at Pat Bazeley's Research Farm, at Bowral, just south of
Sydney, NSW. Pat has an NVivo workshop in the following week. Apologies for
cross-posting.)
cheers
Lyn
Lyn Richards,
Director, Research Services, QSR.
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