Using NVIVO in Qualitative Research | Date: 28 April 2011, 03:43
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Using NVIVO in Qualitative Research
By Professor Lyn Richards
* Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
* Number Of Pages: 240
* Publication Date: 1999-12-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0761965246
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780761965244
Product Description:
This is a book about using qualitative software, for students, teachers, practitioners and participants in qualitative research. It explores what can be done with the latest qualitative research package, QSR NUD·IST Vivo (NVivo), described as the new generation of research software. The book is designed to be used in learning about what the software can do and the research strategies and approaches it supports. Using clear language and examples it explains each of the processes of data editing, exploration, coding, linking and searching available with the software’s tools. The integration of these processes is explored, with emphasis on the ways the researcher can build up a project, and the ways webs of data are linked and understanding developed and tested. Much more than a manual, the book offers practical advice with each section, addressing a range of research approaches and priorities. Each chapter starts with an overview and includes tips on design issues and ways of flexibly managing your project.
The book includes a demonstration CD-ROM of QSR’s NVivo software. The CD carries six tutorials with detailed, step by step online instructions, and the software’s full interactive Help. It also carries over 20 instructional movies demonstrating the processes discussed in the book. Students can use the book whilst working on the tutorials or on special projects using their teacher’s own data; research clients or supervisors can use it to view and review projects being conducted in NVivo.
About the Author
Lyn Richards is a sociologist and qualitative researcher who pioneered qualitative software and services for qualitative researchers and now is an independent teacher, writer and consultant. Her academic qualifications are from the universities of Adelaide (Politics B.A.) and La Trobe (Sociology M.A.) where as Reader in Sociology she taught qualitative methods at undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research was in migrant studies and family, health and women’s studies. Those projects led to experiments in handling of qualitative data with computers, and with Tom Richards she designed the pioneering NUDIST software (for Nonnumerical Unstructured Data, Indexing, Searching and Theorizing). The next ten years of their professional lives were in QSR International, the company they founded to develop and support the use of NUD*IST and later NVivo. As Director of Research Services Lyn taught and consulted in projects in 13 countries, teaching thousands of researchers, writing methods texts and software documentation, personally training most of the 70 trainers worldwide who supported the software and many of the professors who used it in class.
Her tenth book, (if you count books on software) was Handling Qualitative Data: a Practical Guide (Sage, London), telling of much she learned over these years of helping researchers who often had no academic training but wished to do justice to their data, across countries, disciplines and contexts. Like her earlier book with Janice Morse, Readme First, it has been widely used in academic and ‘outside’ research worlds, and both books have been translated to Japanese.
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