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Just under a year ago I was visiting Anuja Cabraal in Australia and we spent some time working together on qualitative projects and also having some fun downtime. Part of that included some wine tasing on the beautiful Mornington Peninsula. Image of the postcard advertising our workshop I think it was at the first vineyard when the embryonic thoughts that have since developed into our workshop Bringing Qualitative Analysis to Life: Making the Most of Your Senses, with Daniel

I recently wrote a chapter for the 2nd edition of The Practice of Qualitative Data Analysis Research Examples Using MAXQDA that details a qualitative evaluation I did for the Coaching through Covid and Beyond programme using MAXQDA. The way the analysis was performed, how progress was documented, and how it is discussed and presented in the chapter, was informed by the Five-Level QDA method that Nick Woolf and I developed (2018). There wasn’t enough space in the chapter to in

As discussed in my previous post, What’s afoot in the Qualitative AI space? various forms of AI, including machine learning, is not new in the qualitative space, with many CAQDAS-packages having implemented various tools over the past 15+ years. What we’re seeing now, though, in terms of generative AI, is different. I’ve experimented with three of these, which I discuss in my next few posts. The first two are (very different) AI additions to existing and well-established qual

Transcription is often seen as an essential part of qualitative research projects that generate data from discussions or other interactions with participants. There has long been debate about its nature and role, both in terms of analysis, and in relation to technologies for facilitating the process. Whether transcripts are required is one question. If they are, then the question becomes what form they should take. There is no one answer to these questions, because what is re

It’s no longer acceptable to ignore or side-line technologies designed to facilitate analysis in the teaching of qualitative methods. This post discusses why and illustrates how methods can be taught via software, using qualitative coding as an example The ‘whether, how and when’ debate Debate about whether, how and when to teach qualitative software (CAQDAS-packages) alongside the techniques of qualitative data analysis (QDA) is longstanding. Different approaches to the iss