Dr. Jens J. Hansen has worked in education for more than four decades and his interests span research methods, adult learning, philosophy and rural education.
He has survived a suite of experiences including parenthood, building, badminton and red wine.
With the second academic semester for 2010 fast approaching, and with a fresh bunch of people beginning to become earnest about analysing qualitative data, it's time for another NVivo 8 workshop at the Woodhill Park Research Retreat.
Experience has shown us that researchers are well advised to get to grips with qualitative analysis before they begin collecting data. We've found that if researchers understand why and how they should work with NVivo software from the outset, their thesis/report construction process becomes greatly enriched. They save time, errors become minimised and links to other software such as EndNote, and usung technoloigies such as film and photographs in conjunction with qualitative data analysis, suddenly opens up an entirely fresh world of possibilities . Hence, this one day course is especially relevant to people who want to understand the qualitative research process better and who want to learn about using software to add rigour to their research whilst also saving time.
The course will be held at the Woodhill Park Research Retreat and will be facilitated by Dr. Jens Hansen who is acknowledged internationally as a leading qualitative researcher and teacher of qualitative research computing. Specific details are as follows:
- The course will be held at the Woodhill Park Research Retreat on Saturday June 26th from 9.30 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.;
- Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will be provided at each workshop and accommodation is available for people travelling from out-of-town (For accommodation cost details click here or contact Jenny (+64 9 411 7703);
- To enrol, contact Jens or Jenny Hansen at the Woodhill Park Research Retreat (+64 99 411 7703);
- The cost to each participant will be $200.00 plus GST and pre-payment must either be completed or guaranteed at the time of contacting Jens or Jenny because anyone cancelling will still be levied the full cost of workshop fees.
Course Description
NVivo 8 is a powerful qualtitatve software package which is distributed by QSR. It enables researchers to efficiently handle complex qualitative data so that they can effectively undertake intensive qualitative data analysis. NVivo 8 creates a flexible environment in which you can create, manage and explore ideas. It enables media such as video-clips, images, sound files, and rich text to be included as data for analysis. (Video and sound can be transcribed and/or annotated within the software as a predicate to completing analysis.) The software includes a built in modeller as well as facilities which enable researchers to create output charts.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this one day workshop, participants will be able to:
- Create their own NVivo 8 project and navigate around that project;
- Create and import data including memos, rich text documents, video, sound bytes and photos;
- Create ‘nodes’ for storing the coding of data, and code at these nodes;
- Perform searches within an NVivo project; and,
- Report the results of analysis in an appropriate manner.
Course Structure
This course involves ‘hands-on’ learning and includes a mixture of facilitator-led instruction and independent learning. Participants will need to bring their own lap top which must have a stand alone copy of NVivo 8 installed before arrival.
Class Size
These workshops will be restricted to nine participants. However, as a special concession we are happy to have a thesis supervisor attend with their student (providing they share a laptop), or vice versa, we are happy to have a student attend with her/his supervisor (providing they too share a laptop). In such instances, we need to know beforehand about the pair who will be attending and the understanding is that they will focus on advancing the student’s thesis work.
TO ENROL FOR THIS WORKSHOPS, CONTACT THE WOODHILL PARK RESEARCH RETREAT BY PHONING +64 9 411 7703. ENROLMENTS WILL BE TAKEN ON A FIRST COME FIRST IN BASIS.