Using Software in Qualitative Research by Ann Lewins

Using Software in Qualitative Research by Ann Lewins

Using Software in Qualitative Research is an essential introduction to the practice and principles of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS), helping the reader choose the most appropriate package for their needs and to get the most out of the software once they are using it. This step-by-step book considers a wide range of tasks and processes, bringing them together to demystify qualitative software and encourage flexible and critical choices and uses of software in supporting analysis. The book can be read as a whole or by chapters, building on one another to provide a holistic sense of the analytic journey without advocating a particular sequential process. Accessible and comprehensive, Using Software in Qualitative Research provides a practical but analytically-grounded guide to thinking about and using software and will be an essential companion for any qualitative researcher.

′This book is an important and updated addition to the scarce literature [available] for choosing a software package to support the analysis of data in qualitative research…[T]he clear, concise, and practical language as well as the numerous pictures…will help any confused, technologically anxious user feel more competent in using technology for…analysis′

Forum: Qualitative Social Research

The text is like having Ann or Christina at

your shoulder guiding you through,

explaining not only the practical steps, but

why you might want to do something in

the first place. A good marriage of

methodological reflection and practical

know-how.

Duncan Branley
Goldsmiths College, University of London

[The] authors have written a very helpful

step-by-step guide, comparing different

software packages, including ‘real

research’ examples and proposing

interesting tasks to the reader. This is a

long awaited textbook.

Wilma C. Mangabeira
Middlesex University

Christina Silver, PhD, is a qualitative researcher and teacher of all the major CAQDAS packages, including ATLAS.ti, Dedoose, MAXQDA, QDA Miner, Qualrus, NVivo, and Transana. She manages the CAQDAS Networking Project, based at the University of Surrey, UK. The project provides information, advice, training, and ongoing support in different software programs designed to facilitate qualitative and mixed-methods analysis. Christina also undertakes research, training, and consultancy via her consortium Qualitative Data Analysis Services Ltd. and is the coauthor, with Ann Lewins, of Using Software in Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide (SAGE Publications, 2014). Christina has trained thousands of researchers and students to use qualitative software since 1998. Her textbooks coauthored with Nick Woolf, Qualitative Analysis Using ATLAS.ti/MAXQDA/NVivo: The Five-Level QDA® Method, were published by Routledge in 2018.

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ISBN 13	9780761949237
ISBN 10	0761949232
Title	Using Software in Qualitative Research
Author	Ann Lewins
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2007-04-12
Number of pages	304
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