Using Software in Qual Res 3e 3E

Third Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-5297-3096-8
Verlag: Sage Publications - IPS UK

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 343 g

Reihe: SAGE LTD

Options for enacting qualitative analysis are rapidly evolving. This book paves a way through the developments and disruptions, helping you make informed decisions about software in your research and harness the tools you choose with confidence.

From a leading expert in critical engagement with AI, this third edition has been fully revised to reflect recent methodological and technological trends. The book:

- Emphasises ensuring that analytic activities drive software use, putting good methodological decision-making first.

- Explores the capabilities of large language models and generative AI for qualitative analysis, and the challenges and controversies they spark.

- Expands discussion of the research processes surrounding analysis, with new chapters on understanding qualitative method(ologies) and presenting findings.

Empowering ambitious, creative and rigorous use of qualitative data analysis tools, this book is perfect for postgraduate students and researchers conducting a qualitative project.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silver, Christina

Lewins, Ann

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Orientation to computer-assisted qualitative data analysis
Chapter 2: Approaches to analysing qualitative data
Chapter 3: Digital tools for QDA
Chapter 4: Getting the most out of CAQDAS-packages
Part II: Getting ready: planning, preparing and reflecting
Chapter 5: Planning an analysis
Chapter 6: Preparing research materials
Chapter 7: Capturing reflections
Part III: Capturing ideas as the basis for analysis
Chapter 8: Exploration and data-level work
Chapter 9: Coding qualitative materials
Chapter 10: Working with coding-schemes
Chapter 11: Organising factual characteristics
Part IV: Analysis, interpretation and reporting
Chapter 12: Retrieving and reviewing throughout
Chapter 13: Interrogating patterns, relationships and anomalies
Chapter 14: Building and presenting accounts

Über Autor(innen)

Silver, Christina
Christina Silver, Ph.D. SFHEA, FAcSS is Associate Professor (Teaching) in the Faculty of Social Sciences (Sociology) at the University of Surrey, UK, and since 2023 Director of the CAQDAS Networking Project (CNP). She joined the CNP in 1998, which from 1994 has provided impartial information, advice and training in software designed for qualitative data analysis. Christina also co-founded, with Ann Lewins, Qualitative Data Analysis Services (QDAS), which provides customised analytic consultancy for teams and individuals. Christina’s interests are in the relationship between technology and methodology, and the teaching of computer-assisted qualitative analysis. She has published widely on these topics, including co-developing the CAQDAS pedagogy: Five-Level QDA with Nicholas Woolf. She is experienced in using a range of digital tools to enact methods across academic disciplines, and in applied, government and commercial contexts. Christina’s recent work has focused on enabling researchers to navigate the terrain of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in qualitative research encouraging balanced and critical perspectives about its potential role. This includes when the use of AI, particularly generative forms, is not appropriate, and when it might be. Christina is widely seen as a leading voice on methodologically-informed use of CAQDAS-packages and balanced and critical engagement with the implications of Generative-AI on qualitative research.

Lewins, Ann
For much of her working life Ann Lewins was not an academic. She held a commission in the Royal Air Force as an Air Traffic Controller and later ran a growing sports business with her husband until his death in 1988. In 1992, at the age of 45, having just gained a first class honours degree in Modern History & Politics, she started postgraduate study. Two years later she was appointed to a sole, part-time Research post at the University of Surrey with the newly formed CAQDAS Networking Project (Computer Assisted Qualitative AnalysiS). The project, conceived by Nigel Fielding and Ray Lee was born out of a ground-breaking international Research Methods conference convened at Surrey in 1989, a key moment in the coalescing of a new awareness of a small range of early qualitative data analysis software programs. Ann set up online support resources and began hosting a vigorous program of seminars and training workshops to help researchers know the different software programs available and to teach their use. By 2000, Ann, together with Christina Silver had ensured that the CAQDAS Networking Project was reaching thousands of researchers who visited Surrey for support. Their specialist joint initiative, QDAS (Qualitative Data Analysis Services), was created to widen customised teaching and project support on-site at many other universities and research institutions worldwide.