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• Tips for literature import and organisation
• Exploration and familiarisation tools
• Coding strategies – inductive, deductive approaches; manual, search-based, and generative-AI approaches.
• Organising materials to factual characteristics such as date of publication, country in which study took place etc  to facilitate interrogation.
• Use of writing and visualisation tools to capture reflections on literature over time
• Querying across articles to facilitate synthesizing and outputting

·       To understand the importance of arts- based methods in qualitative methodology.

·      To identify the benefits and challenges in using arts to explore the social world.

·      To discuss the practical and ethical considerations in collating data when using arts as a method.

·      To explore the analytical tools used in arts-based methods.

This course has a dual aim: a) to provide an overview on discourse analysis as a qualitative method in the service of analysing qualitative data (discourse) and b) to focus on using discourse analysis in practice. The course is focused on the analysis of discourse and also on the reasons for opting for discursive approaches while considering the assumptions they entail.

NVivo is a powerful software for the qualitative and mixed-methods analysis of text, audio, video, survey and social media data.

This  two day course provides a comprehensive overview of NVivo and an opportunity for participants to practice tasks using their own data.