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Organizer: Alison Denton Jones is a Graduate Student in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/gs/Jones_Alison OverviewOverview
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9:30 AM – 10:05 AM: NVivo Stacy Penna , QSR International, Business Development Manager
10:05 AM – 10:40 AM: HyperRESEARCH Sharlene J.N.Hesse -Biber , Boston College, Professor, Department of Sociology
10:40 AM – 10:55 AM: Coffee Break
10:55 AM – 11:30 AM: Atlas.ti Jessica S. Welburn , Harvard University, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Framework Heather Wardle, National Centre for Social Research (UK), Resear ch Director
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch, Q&A, and General Discussion BackgroundBackground
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Ann Lewins and Christina Silver: Using Software in Qualitative Research: A Step -by -Step Guide. Sage Publications, London, 2007. directly compares several QDA software packages side-by-side and under real-world conditions . NVivo 2.0 and ATLAS.ti 5.0: A Comparative Review of Two Popular Qualitative Data -Analysis Programs. R. BARRY LEWIS. Field Methods, Vol. 16, No. 4, November 2004 439 –469 “Comparative reviews of software. ” Graham R. Gibbs . 21st August 2008. http://onlineqda.hud.ac.uk/Which_software/reviews -of -sw.php “CAQDAS Comparison. ” by Thomas Koenig . This is a comparative overview of the most important computer-assisted qualitative data analyses software packages. Unlike most other reviews, it is not ordered by software products, but by product functions. http://www.restore.ac.uk/lboro/research/software/caqdas_comparis on.php ResourcesResources forfor UsingUsing QDAQDA ProgramsPrograms
FQS is a peer -reviewed multilingual online journal for qualitative research established in 1999. http://www.qualitative -research.net/fqs/fqs -eng.htm
The CAQDAS Project was set up to increase awareness and debate a bout Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software. P ractical support, training and information in the use of a range of software progr ams designed to assist qualitative data analysis. Lots of stuff here ! http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/index.htm MoreMore QDAQDA ResourcesResources
Utilizing Qualitative Data Analysis Software: A Review of Atlas.ti . Sungsoo Hwang. Social Science Computer Review 2008; 26; 519 originally published online Feb 5, 2008: http://ssc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/4/519 University of Nebraska -Lincoln, Office of Survey, Statistics & Psychometrics: ppt or video versions of training sessions for atlas, maxqda , nvivo , and qda in general (just keep scrolling down – not organized): http:// ssp.unl.edu/archives.html QSR International ( NVivo ): forums http://forums.qsrinternational.com/ Linda Dale Bloomberg & Marie F. Volpe (2008). Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation: A Roadmap From Beginning to End. Los Angeles, London: Sage Publications, 232 pages. PanelistPanelist BiosBios
Stacy Penna works as a Business Development Manager for QSR International, the company that develops and markets NVIVO software for qualitative research. She received he r Doctorate in Education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Stacy's dissertation was a qualitative ca se study I which she used Nvivo to help her analyze her data and write her literature review. [email protected] | www.qsrinternational.com Sharlene J.N.Hesse -Biber , Ph.D. University of Michigan, is Professor of Sociology, Bosto n College. Her monograph, Am I Thin Enough Yet? (Oxford, 1996), was selected as one of Choice Magazine ’s best academic books for 1996. She is author of The Cult of Thinness (Oxford, 2007) and Mixed Methods Research: Merging Theory with Practice (Guilford Publications, 2010). She is the co -author of Working Women in America (Oxford, 2005) and The Practice of Qualitative Research (Sage, 2006;2011). She is c o-editor of Approaches to Qualitative Research (Oxford, 2004), Feminist Perspectives on Social Researc h (Oxford, 2004), Emergent Methods in Social Research (Sage, 2006) and The Handbook of Emergent Methods (Guilford, 2008). She is a contributor to The Sage Handbook of Grounded Theory (Sage, 2007) and the forthcomin g 2nd edition of the Handbook of Mixed Methods Research (Sage). She is co -developer of HyperRESEARCH , a software tool for analyzing qualitative data, and a transcription software tool, HyperTranscribe . [email protected] | www.researchware.com | http://www2.bc.edu/~hesse/ Jessica Welburn is a Graduate Student in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University and a Doctoral Fellow, Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Polic y. Her research Interests include: Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Family, Culture, and Qualitative Methodology. The ti tle of her dissertation is: “Examining Downward Mobility among Middle Class African Americans. ” [email protected] | http:// www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/gs/Welburn_Jessica / Heather Wardle is a Research Director at the National Centre for Social Resear ch, the UK's largest independent social research organisation . As a Research Director within the Health and Lifestyles Depart ment, Heather's main interests lie in public health research. She specialises in the areas of gambling research and tobacco control. Currently Heather is Project Director of the British Gambling Pr evalence Survey 2010, which will be assessing how gambling behaviour has changed in Britain in the last three years. Heather also ha s a strong interest in methodological issues, in particular the effective design and im plementation of web surveys. [email protected] | http://www.natcen.ac.uk/people/heather -wardle