Training Workshop: Analysing Qualitative Data
Date:
Thursday 11 November 2010
Location: Board Room, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester (Directions)
Workshop organiser: Jennifer Mason and Brian Heaphy (Morgan Centre, University of Manchester)
Workshop summary
This course will cover key principles in qualitative data analysis. It will examine how qualitative data can be managed, interpreted, analysed and used to build and substantiate convincing arguments. The course will involve presentations from the tutors, and a participative workshop where participants will be encouraged to draw on their own research experience and examples, and/or to engage with practical examples provided by the tutors.
The focus throughout will be on principles of qualitative analysis, and how these can be put into practice. The course will involve some practical engagement with qualitative data. Although the course will address the use of qualitative analysis software packages, it will not involve hands-on or technical training in their use, and it will be conducted in a seminar room, not a PC cluster.
The course is ‘intermediate’ level, and is designed for people who have experience of generating qualitative data, but who have less experience of analysing them. Ideally, participants would be in or near the position of having their own qualitative data to analyse.
Participants will be invited to bring a small excerpt of their own qualitative data (eg text or pictures that can be brought in hard copy) for use in the participative workshop section of the day.
Programme
| Time | Session |
| 9.15 | Arrival, tea/ coffee and registration |
| 9.45 | Introduction and aims |
| 10.00 | What kinds of questions can qualitative data address? What kinds of knowledge can they produce? What are we aiming for in our analyses? |
| 10.30 | Strategies for making sense of qualitative data.
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| 1.00 | Vegetarian Lunch |
| 2.00 | Participative/practical workshop – analysing qualitative data |
| 3.30 | Building and substantiating an argument with qualitative data |
| 4.00 | Tea/Coffee and Close |
Fees
Standard NCRM fees apply:
- £60 - staff of academic or not-for-profit organisations
- £30 - student/unwaged
- £220 - other
How to apply for a place
The deadline for applications has now passed. If you have applied for a place on this course, you will be notified via email week commencing 25 October 2010.
Directions
The Arthur Lewis Building is building number 36 on the campus map
If you are heading from the city centre down Oxford Road, watch out for a pedestrian bridge over the road with University of Manchester on it. Just past the bridge, you will see a big building on the left that looks like a giant tin drum. Arthur Lewis is opposite this building.