University of South Australia: November 2024 Short Course
Qualitative Text Analysis Using Digital Tools

Dr. Christina Silver

Course Description

This workshop introduces methods and tools for qualitative text analysis, to aid researchers in planning and undertaking analysis using digital tools designed for the purpose. We begin with an overview of traditions in text analysis, spanning the methodological spectrum, and the range of digital tools designed to facilitate these approaches. This includes discussion of recent developments in the use of Generative-AI for qualitative analysis.

Using one of the leading Computer Assisted Qualitative Data AnalysiS (CAQDAS) programs as an example – MAXQDA (www.maxqda.com) – we bring methods to life by implementing an analysis, focusing on common analytic activities and how they can be accomplished using software tools. This involves preparing texts for analysis (including automated transcription), importing and organising texts, exploring content and building dictionaries, coding texts using both inductive and deductive approaches, managing interpretations through analytic note-taking, summarising and mapping, interrogating patterns and relationships and visualising and reporting.

As we work through the qualitative analysis workflow we will discuss potential appropriate ways of using AI tools alongside and integrated with human interpretation. Participants will be provided with a training version of the software to follow this course, and are invited to use their own data throughout the course, as well as sample texts provided.

Event Information

November 11-13, 2024

Monday – 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Tuesday – 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Wednesday – 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM

RR5-009

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Meet the Instructor

Christina Silver, PhD, is a researcher and facilitator of qualitative data analysis methods and digital tools, specializing in all the major programs, including ATLAS.ti, CoLoop, Dedoose, Discovertext, f4analyse, MAXQDA, QDA Miner, Qualrus, NVivo, and Transana.

She is Associate Professor (Teaching) in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, where she is also Director of the CAQDAS Networking Project which since 1994 has raised awareness and built capacity in the use of qualitative software amongst the global social research community. She is also Co-Director of the department’s Short Courses in Social Research programme.

Christina also undertakes research, training, and consultancy via QDA Services and is co-author of Using Software in Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide (SAGE 2014), and Qualitative Analysis Using ATLAS.ti / MAXQDA / NVivo: The Five-Level QDA® Method (Routledge 2018). Christina has trained many thousands of researchers and students in qualitative methods/software since 1998.

Video Introduction

Also Available:
November Online Workshop (Open to UniSA Faculty and Students Only)
UniSA Online Workshop Series
Five Days | Five Topics
November 18-22, 2024