I've got something really special to share later this week - Episode 11 on my #CAQDASchat with Christina podcast is with the person who has had the biggest influence on my CAQDAS career, one of my very best friends and also one of my co-authors - YES - it's the awesome Ann Lewins.
Watch this space for when this episode drops
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latest episode of my #CAQDASchat podcast with Prof Trena Paulus out now
We start chatting about her interest in #QualitativeResearch, her numerous publications, technological advances, including #QualitativeAI, and #teaching #QualitativeMethods Trena also shares her work on digital workflows and spaces with Jessica Nina Lester. #DigitalTools
Enjoy
Trena Paulus is a renowned qualitative methodologist/technologist and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at East Tennessee State University. You can find out about Trena and her work at https://trenapaulus.me/ In this episode I chat with her as a friend and colleague; whose work has had a big influence on how I think and engage with computer-assisted qualitative analysis. We start off chatting about the origins of Trenaβs interest in qualitative research. Then we chat about some of her contributions to the field of CAQDAS including her numerous publications and her thinking about technological advances, including the impact of AI on qualitative technologies. Iβm glad we spent a chunk of this episode chatting about teaching qualitative methods and tools, from the challenges with teaching different groups, the differences between in-person and online teaching, and whether the teaching of method should come before tools, and the challenges of integrating the two. Trena also shares how her recent and current work on digital workflows and digital spaces with Jessica Lester came about and a little bit about where itβs going, and that includes the importance of intentional and reflexive thinking about methods, tools and spaces in designing research and the choices we make. When we chatted Trena was visiting Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar. We mentioned several articles and books that Trena has written β these are all accessible from her Google Scholar Profile If youβre interested in the current developments and implementations around generative-ai in qualitative software that we chatted about, check out my blog series on the topic The special issue in Qualitative Inquiry on exploring methodological consequences of digital workflows that Trena edited with Jessica Lester is free to access and well worth checking out Trena also mentioned the Five-Level QDA method that I developed with Nick Woolf β find out more about that from our website.
In this episode Christina chats with Dr Susanne Friese, an important figure in the qualitative software field since the 1990s, having worked with John Seidel, developer of the Ethnograph in the early 1990s, the CAQDAS Networking Project in the mid-1990s, and then for many years with Thomas Muhr and colleagues at ATLAS.ti. We chat about how Susanne got interested in methodology and the use of CAQDAS and how software made methods tangible for her. We chat about her love for teaching and the challenges she observes that students have in learning and adopting qualitative software in a methodological context. We chat about her work with and role at the ATLAS.ti company over the years, including some of the features of that software that she particularly likes. We finish up chatting about Susanne's new endeavor, Qeldura. Episode links check out Susanne's new venture, Qeludra Find Susanne on LinkedIn check out Susanne's discussion about AI and qualitative data analysis on her blog
In this episode Christina is chatting with Dr Stuart Shulman, CEO and Founder of Textifter, the company the develops the online qualitative text analysis and machine learning tool, DiscoverText. Stu used to be Professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts and was also founder and director of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program - a joint endeavour at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Massachusetts In our chat we cover how Stuart became involved in using computers for qualitative analysis, which takes us from literary criticism, through organic garlic farming and political science to the development of collaborative online analytic tools that balance what humans and computers are best at. We chat about methodological dogma, opening up academic minds about the role of methods and tools, and advocating for tolerance and flexibility in methods. Stu also explains how Discovertext came about, and describes its five main sets of tools, and how they can be used for high-quality, rigorous and collaborative qualitative analysis of large amounts of data. Discovertext is free for academic researchers and Stuart tells us how you can get hold of it, and also reflects on how it can be used to teach qualitative analysis. Thereβs a whole bunch of other juicy topics in this one, which raise some old and ongoing debates in our field, as well as some important things to reflect on as we move forward. Before we started recording Stuart was telling me about his gorgeous new puppy so thereβs a few references to dogs along the way, in case youβre wondering. I hope you enjoy our chat. We recorded this around the time when all the hoo-ha about AI tools like ChatGPT and such were gaining traction, but Stuart recounts, machine learning isnβt new in our field, he first started developing them almost 20 years ago, and if youβre not yet familiar with what his tools can do, I hope this chat will get you motivated to find out what they can really doβ¦ Find out more about Discovertext Check out Stuart's LinkedIn Profile Read Stuart's paper on rigor and flexibility in computer-based qualitative research: Introducing the Coding Analysis Toolkit Read the CAQDAS Networking Project's independent review of Discovertext
The latest episode of my #CAQDASchat podcast is out!
I'm chatting to the FAB-U-LOUS Kristi Jackson about loads of #QualitativeMethods & #QualitativeSoftware topics.
Grab a cuppa & enjoy
#transparency #DigitalTools #CAQDAS #QualitativeResearch #qualitative #QualitativeMethods
Dr Kristi Jackson is a qualitative researcher, methodologist and trainer and co-author β with Pat Bazeley β of the very well-renowned textbook Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo. Kristi has an enormous amount of experience through her own research and the consultancy, coaching and training she does through her business, Queri, and she shares some of this with us in this episode. We begin with how Kristi got interested in qualitative tools, and why she focused on transparency and digital tools for her dissertation, which leads us to chat about the role of software and the subcultures in our communities of practice. We chat about what we both enjoy most about teaching, the challenges of self-learning and issues with the emphasis in academia around individual career paths and expertise rather than collective learning and collaborative practices. Then we get on to metaphors, analogies, personalities and how our brains work in the context of teaching, learning and using qualitative tools. We finish up reflecting on pivotal moments in the past, and what she thinks we need to consider in the CAQDAS field as we move forward, and that gets us talking about being stuck in old conversations and some creative ideas for qualitative tools of the future. Episode links: Kristi's dissertation : Qualitative methods, transparency and qualitative data analysis software: Toward an understanding of transparency in motion Kristi's book (co-authored with Pat Bazeley) Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo (Sage Publications) Kristi's LinkedIn profile
Had such a great time this morning editing the next episode in my podcast #CAQDASchat with a very good friend and inspiration to me, Kristi Jackson
If you're at all interested in #QualitativeAnalysis #QualitativeSoftware #QualitativeMethods you don't want to miss this one. Coming soon, watch this space
New #CAQDASchat podcast episode - I'm chatting with Prof Udo Kuckartz, the brains behind #MAXQDA about his interest in #qualitative methods & software development, thoughts about the relationship between methods and tools, the future of qualitative computing ... and much more... #CAQDAS
Professor Udo Kuckartz is the brains behind the qualitative software program, MAXQDA, one of the leading CAQDAS packages, and also Emeritus Professor at Phillips University Marburg in Germany. In this episode, Christina chats with Professor Kuckartz about how he first became interested in the use of computers for qualitative analysis, when he was doing his doctoral dissertation, and about his background and focus as a sociologist and methodologist. We also discuss the relationship between methods and technology and what has changed over the years. This episode is full of insights from someone who has been a key figure in the CAQDAS field right from the outset, and full of interesting insights about the past, present and future. Episode links: MAXQDA software https://www.maxqda.com/ MAXdays2023 free virtual conference https://www.maxqda.com/maxdays Professor Udo Kuckartz's ResearchGate profile https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Udo-Kuckartz
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