NVivo (day 1): Introducing the software and qualitative analysis

Audience: PG research, PG taught

Date: Thursday 20 March 2025

Times: 13.00 to 15.00

Programme: GRADskills
Programme: MSkills

Key details: Online event. Demystify NVivo to carry out efficient, timely and organised qualitative analysis. You must install NVivo ahead of time (see Apps Anywhere) and register for both days of this two part training.

Target audience

Staff or postgraduate students in any discipline - assumes minimal knowledge of NVivo.

Course pre-work

You must register for both days of this two part training and you must install NVivo on your computer before the workshop. The University has a site license, for more information on how to download go to: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/it-support/services/software/

Course mapped to

Vitae's Researcher Development Framework domains: A1 (Knowledge base), A2 (Cognitive abilities)

Follow on course

Nvivo (part 2): Advanced features and customising your approach

Course information

PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will run online.  If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place at least two working days before so that we can allow others onto the course.

This is the first of two linked GRADskills workshops that will provide a comprehensive introduction to the qualitative analysis programme Nvivo, a powerful tool for the organisation of large and unwieldy amounts of qualitative data to facilitate efficient, effective and transparent data analysis. There are regular software updates that introduce new functions to NVivo, so now at version 12 it can be a bit bewildering and unintuitive to start using. However, once you get to know it NVivo is a relatively straightforward and very powerful tool, and these workshops will help you cut through the complexity of the interface to get to the core of the programme, making your qualitative data analysis more effective and much less time consuming.

This workshop will start with a basic overview of qualitative “coding”, i.e. grouping data under themes, and how to appropriately do that to take most advantage of the functions NVivo offers. Then we move on to creating a project and importing source material like interview transcripts. After this you will learn about coding within NVivo, how to code to a level of detail that allows you to carry out your research analysis, the difference between thematic and case coding, and how each can be used to simplify data analysis and group data to allow you to easily compare different participant perspectives.

Participants are expected to register for and attend both workshops. Part 2 will look at some of the more advanced functionality of Nvivo, as well as how to customise approaches to suit your specific research projects and methodological approaches. You will be given some questions to consider in preparation for part 2.

You must install NVivo on your computer before the workshop. The University has a site licence and you can download NVivo using Apps Anywhere.

Aims and objectives

By the end of this workshop you should be able to:

• Understand coding and carry it out
• Create a new project
• Import data
• Code data thematically and by cases in Nvivo

Tutors

Dr Mathew Smith

Course provider

IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk