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Workshops are filling up fast. Register soon to avoid disappointment.
Two half-day workshops are scheduled for November 24, and will be run by Lyn Richards from QSR.
Participants are welcome to register for one or both workshops and registration includes workshop handbook(s).
$80 registration fee for both half-day workshops includes lunch and both morning and afternoon tea.
$50 registration fee for one half-day workshop includes lunch and either morning or afternoon tea.
The workshops will be held on Nathan Campus in N34_0.05 (Science 2). If you are unfamiliar with Griffith University, please refer to N34 on the Nathan campus map at http://www.griffith.edu.au/locations/ for the location of the Science 2 building.
Workshop 1 will run from 9:00am - 12:30pm (with morning tea at 10:15)
Workshop 2 will run from 1:30pm - 5:00pm (with afternoon tea at 3:00)
A BBQ lunch will be served adjacent to the workshop room from 12:30 - 1:30 (in the open area undercroft). All participants in both workshops are welcome to attend the lunch, regardless of whether you are attending one session or two.
Car parking is available at the East Carpark however you will have drive by the main bus stop (where the security office is located) to pick up a parking permit from one of our volunteers on the day (in red shirts) before the workshops start. We will have volunteers posted next to the security office from 8:30 - 9:00 am and 1:00-1:30 to provide you with the permit (if needed). To be sure of getting a permit, please contact the conference organisers at cit-qualit@griffith.edu.au before the date indicating your interest in getting a permit.
Increasingly, researchers are at risk of making qualitative data and challenged by how they can work with such data. This half-day interactive workshop starts with the assertion that by using good tools and learning simple skills, researchers can handle qualitative data effectively, rapidly, and efficiently, with immediate results in terms of understanding and opening out of enquiry. From such a starting point, the researcher can approach positively the puzzles of qualitative data, the challenge of handling sensitively records such as interviews, field notes, or documents, and the accessible achievement of making sense of them.
This workshop was previously advertised under the title "Introduction to Qualitative Research".
This is a demonstration and discussion of the basic tools and research processes provide by the leading qualitative software package, QSR NVivo 2.0. It provides a sufficiently detailed overview to introduce the program to those who will go on to learn and use it, or who supervise researchers using it, or those who wish to evaluate the potential of qualitative computing tools. Participants will be shown and will debate the uses of each processes for management of documents and ideas, storing and use of attributes and interpretation via memos and annotations, coding, searching, modeling.
Lyn Richards (M.A. La Trobe University, B.A. Hons Adelaide University) is Director of Research Services at QSR International, teaching, writing, developing and documenting software for qualitative research. As Reader in Sociology at La Trobe University she taught qualitative methods at undergraduate and graduate levels, and wrote four research books from qualitative family research projects. These led to the development, with computer scientist Tom Richards, of the NUD*IST research project, and the founding of QSR. The NUD*IST software is now in a sixth version, (N6), with the partner software package, NVivo. A widely published writer, speaker, and teacher in the growing field of qualitative computing, Lyn has been plenary speaker in all the international conferences in the area. Her most recent book, with Jan Morse, is "Readme First for a User's Guide to Qualitative Analysis". She has taught qualitative methods and qualitative software to some three thousand researchers, in fourteen countries, and has learned from them all. Her ninth book, "Handling Qualitative Data", will be published by Sage in March 2005.
Use the conference registration form to register for the workshops.
Any enquiries can be sent to conference organisers at cit-qualit@griffith.edu.au