Using Software in Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide - Softcover

Lewins, Ann; Silver, Christina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761949232 ISBN 13: 9780761949237

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Using Software in Qualitative Research combines several aspects of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS), helping the reader choose the most appropriate package for their specific needs and get the most out of the software once they are using it. The text considers tasks and processes, bringing them together to demystify qualitative software and encourage flexible and critical choices and uses of software in supporting analysis.

About this title

About the Author

Christina Silver, PhD, is a qualitative researcher and teacher of all the major CAQDAS packages, including ATLAS.ti, Dedoose, MAXQDA, QDA Miner, Qualrus, NVivo, and Transana. She manages the CAQDAS Networking Project, based at the University of Surrey, UK. The project provides information, advice, training, and ongoing support in different software programs designed to facilitate qualitative and mixed-methods analysis. Christina also undertakes research, training, and consultancy via her consortium Qualitative Data Analysis Services Ltd. and is the coauthor, with Ann Lewins, of Using Software in Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide (SAGE Publications, 2014). Christina has trained thousands of researchers and students to use qualitative software since 1998. Her textbooks coauthored with Nick Woolf, Qualitative Analysis Using ATLAS.ti/MAXQDA/NVivo: The Five-Level QDA® Method, were published by Routledge in 2018.

Review

′This book is an important and updated addition to the scarce literature [available] for choosing a software package to support the analysis of data in qualitative research....[T]he clear, concise, and practical language as well as the numerous pictures...will help any confused, technologically anxious user feel more competent in using technology for...analysis′

Forum: Qualitative Social Research

The text is like having Ann or Christina at

your shoulder guiding you through,

explaining not only the practical steps, but

why you might want to do something in

the first place. A good marriage of

methodological reflection and practical

know-how.

Duncan Branley
Goldsmiths College, University of London

[The] authors have written a very helpful

step-by-step guide, comparing different

software packages, including ‘real

research’ examples and proposing

interesting tasks to the reader. This is a

long awaited textbook.

Wilma C. Mangabeira
Middlesex University

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0761949232
• ISBN 13: 9780761949237
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304