MFSAS Gathering Qualitative Data Course

Event Details

Date:

Wednesday, 04 November 2020 - Thursday, 05 November 2020

Time:

All Day

Room:

ISSR, Cycad Building

Location:

Institute for Social Science Research

UQ Location:

UQ Long Pocket Site (Long Pocket)

URL:

Event category(s):

Full Description:: This course will enable participants to understand the results from administrative or survey data by investigating these findings in more depth through qualitative methods. It will cover skills to gather data from stakeholders through interviews, focus groups or visual methods in order to make evidence-informed decisions and ensure that surveys provide valid and reliable data.

Topics covered:
Designing research using the appropriate qualitative method(s)
Planning research (Including budget, ethics, sampling, participant recruitment and logistical arrangements)
Developing interview guides, consent forms and information sheets
Interviewing with confidence (including interview skills, facilitation skills, interview and focus group practice and feedback opportunities)
Understanding other qualitative methods such as observation, ethnography, cognitive/retrospective interviews, visual methods, and online methods
Enhancing the validity and trustworthiness of qualitative research
Developing a coding protocol
Computer assisted qualitative data analysis
Analysing and interpreting qualitative data
Writing up results for different audiences, PhD, peer-reviewed papers, participant summaries, or policy briefs