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 become easier and 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, organise and 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 sit and watch as Dr Christine Huebner (Sheffield) 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 prerequisite knowledge of NVivo is required. Basic knowledge of qualitative research is necessary.

Please note:

• This is a bring-your-laptop course for 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. Installation of NVivo on your computer is not the responsibility of the WRDTP. You should arrange this yourself with your home institution.
• The session will not provide IT support. If there is an IT problem with your software during the session, we will not be able to fix it.
• 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:

• Analysing qualitative data in NVivo and how the software can help you
• Managing, coding, and organising data
• Analysing and presenting data

Contributors

Dr Christine Huebner, is a Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Her current research focuses on how young people want to be engaged in political processes and how they look at things like citizenship, identity, and political participation.