Beginner and Advanced NVivo Workshops for the Humanities

Are you a humanities or social science scholar whose research involves working with a large amount of qualitative data and materials, including texts, images, archives, survey, and social media data? Do you have narratives or interviews that need to be transcribed and coded? Are you looking for a more defined method to capture, organize, and visualize your data?

The Center for Social Science Scholarship and the Inclusion Imperative Humanities Teaching Labs at the Dresher Center for the Humanities are sponsoring two training workshops -- one introductory, one advanced -- on NVivo 12. This data analysis software package is free and available to all faculty, staff, and graduate students via a UMBC site license, on both Mac and PC platforms. The workshops will explore the value of using NVivo for a wide range of projects and are open to all CAHSS faculty and graduate students. The concepts and procedures presented in these workshops are easy to adapt for research in a variety of fields -- including sociology, anthropology, psychology, education, history, communication, linguistics, etc. -- as well as multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary projects. NVivo supports a range of qualitative approaches, including grounded theory, discourse analysis, thematic content analysis, historiography, evaluative strategies, as well as mixed methods approaches.

The introductory workshop on March 11, 2019, will explore computer-assisted analysis with NVivo 12 and why it is valuable in a range of humanities and social science fields. Participants will focus on the basic principles of using NVivo, including how to transcribe, code, analyze, and catalog different types of data and how to pull out research themes for further analysis. Lunch will be provided.

The advanced workshop on Sept. 23, 2019, will focus on essential features for project customization and archiving. Participants will learn NVivo 12’s advanced automated transcription techniques, how to design tree nodes and create codebooks, and will cover the fundamentals of quantitative and qualitative data management for mixed methods analysis.

Both workshops will be hands-on, small group events, led by Dr. Claude-Julie Bourque, NVivo expert trainer and professor from the University of Montreal.

Registration is required for each event separately. Participants can attend either or both workshops. Participants will need to bring your own laptop, with NVivo 12 downloaded in advance. Please sign up early, as we have a limited number of seats for each workshop!