Introduction to NVivo

In this session, you’ll learn how to use NVivo to effectively and efficiently analyse qualitative data. Like other data analysis tools, NVivo is no magic bullet. It doesn’t do the work for you, but it can help you organise, manage and structure your data, so that analysis and write-up of qualitative research becomes easier and more systematic.

You’ll learn how to use NVivo for the management, coding, and analysis of qualitative data. We will go over how to set up a project, how to organise, manage, code and analyse data, and how to use the system you built to present and write about qualitative findings.

The session can be experienced in various ways: either you can watch as Dr Christine Huebner explores NVivo, and guides you through the software; or you can experience the session hands-on, using sample data to experience NVivo’s basic and advanced functionalities. If you have started working on a project, feel free to bring your own data. No prior knowledge of NVivo is required, but you will need basic knowledge of qualitative research.

Please note that:

• This course will use NVivo Pro for Windows. Please note that some aspects may be experienced differently by Mac users.
• Participants will be asked to come with NVivo pre-installed on their own machines if they wish to try elements out for themselves. The WRDTP is unable to provide support with this (please arrange this yourself/with your home institution).
• The session host/s and the WRDTP team will be unable to provide IT support during the session.
• An example data set will be made available to attendees before the session.
• The session will be recorded, and the central explanation sections will be uploaded to the WRDTP website for future reference.

Outcomes:

Participants will:

• Analyse qualitative data in NVivo and understand how the software can be applied;
• Learn to manage, code and organise data;
• Learn to analyse and present data.

Contributors:

Dr Jon Dean is Associate Professor in Politics and Sociology at Sheffield Hallam University and Director of Advanced Qualitative Methods for the WRDTP. His research interests focus on charity and the voluntary sector, homelessness, class inequality, and the sociology of youth.

Dr Christine Huebner is a Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Christine’s research explores changes in political engagement and conceptions of citizenship and democracy, in particular among young people.

Important:

1. This event is online only (attendees will receive a joining link by email).

2. Bookings will close at 9:00am on Friday 9th January.

3. When booking, we ask that you use your institutional (.ac.uk) email address and complete all fields of the booking form. Thank you for your understanding.