·Course Content

• 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

PLEASE NOTE:

Participants applying for a student fee or UGPN discount will need to use their University email address to be eligible.

All staff and students at any of the below institutions are now eligible for the UGPN discount as part of UGPN.    

•             North Carolina (NC) State University: @ncsu.edu 

•            University of Sāo Paulo (USP): @usp.br

•            University of Surrey: @surrey.ac.uk

·       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.

• Understand technical developments in the field of qualitative analysis
• Have an overview of the range of digital tools designed to facilitate qualitative text analysis that utilise AI capabilities
• Understand the range of AI tools for qualitative analysis, how they are developed and how they work
• Understand the importance of analytic planning in harnessing digital tools for qualitative text analysis
• Understand when the use of AI for qualitative analysis may be appropriate, and when it is not
• Understand the principles of making appropriate choices between digital tools for analytic purposes
• Know where to access relevant resources to support continued use of digital tools for qualitative text analysis

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• Introduction to MAXQDA’s components
• Tips for data preparation, transcription, import and organisation
• Data exploration and familiarisation, including AI-assisted summaries and AI-assisted Chat with Documents.
• Coding strategies – inductive, deductive approaches; manual and automated approaches; including AI assisted coding.
• Organising materials to factual characteristics such as socio-demographics (variables) to facilitate interrogation.
• Use of writing and visualisation tools to reflect on data and processes
• Querying and outputting

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.

Funding opportunities

Participants applying for a UGPN discount will need to use their University email address to be eligible.

•            North Carolina (NC) State University: @ncsu.edu 

•            University of Sāo Paulo (USP): @usp.br

•            University of Surrey: @surrey.ac.uk

All staff and students at any of the above institutions are now eligible for the UGPN discount as part of UGPN.

Participants living and working in a Category B country, according to the World Bank Classification, may be eligible for discounts. To apply please contact shortcourses@surrey.ac.uk to complete a short questionnaire and the Short courses team will be in touch. Please note that our courses have limited spaces and therefore eligibility for this discount does not guarantee a space.

• Know how to move on beyond initial tasks
• Know how to use the software to accomplish analytic tasks
• Know where to access relevant resources to support continued NVivo use

·   To explore the various ways in which researchers can use qualitative methods to discuss sensitive topics and issues with participants 

·   To identify the opportunities and challenges in using qualitative methods to explore sensitive issues with research participants, with practical solutions to overcome challenges. 

·    To understand the practical and ethical considerations in research design.