Fifth International Strategies in Qualitative Research Conference

Van Mildert College, University of Durham (UK)
1 – 3 September 2004

Conference Programme

Wednesday (1 September 2004)

9:30 – 12:30	Pre-conference workshops

14:00 – 17:00	Pre -conference workshops

16:00 – 19:00	Arrival and registration of delegates

(registration will take place in Van Mildert’s entrance lobby)

18:00 – 19:15	Opening of the conference by Dr Lydia Martens
(the conference organiser)

followed by

Opening Address by Professor Sue Scott (Postgraduate Dean of the University of Durham)

Venue: Ustinov Room (in Van Mildert college)
	
19:30 – 21:00
	Evening Dinner

Evening free (Van Mildert’s bar will be open till 11 pm)

Thursday (2 September 2004)

8:00 – 10:00	Registration of delegates

(registration will take place in Van Mildert’s entrance lobby)

9:00 – 10:30	Paper Session 1

Session 1a: Doing Evaluation Research in Team context

1. Donna Richter and Louis Clary – Using NVivo in the Analysis of Data from a Site Visit Program

2. Claire Fox and Nathan Hughes – The Challenges of a Complex National Evaluation

3. Kim Nichols Dauner, Sara Corwin, Willie Oglesby, Kara Montgomery and Donna Richter – Using NVivo for a Qualitative Evaluation of an After-School Program

Session 1b: Grounded theory and QDAS

1. Pernilla Pergert – A Grounded Theory Study Using NVivo in the analysis and in method learning

2. Pat Chung – Using N6 to Analyze Interview Data from Carers of People with Dementia – Preliminary Analysis.

3. Ozlem Bak – Enhancing the Manual Data Analysis: A critical validation tool

Session 1C: Multi-level data and rigour in the research process

1. Chih Hoong Sin - Using NUD*IST (version 6) in Evaluative Research

2. Keith Coupland and Lynne Johnston – Using QSR NVivo in Phenomenological Research: The experience of recovering from Psychosis through Groupwork

3. Jaques de Wet and Zimitri Erasmus – Towards Rigorous Practice in Qualitative Research

Venue: Van Mildert’s break out rooms

10:30 – 11:00	Coffee & Tea

11:00 – 12:00	Round Tables 1

Session 1: “How to report convincingly and usefully?” facilitated by Linda Gilbert

Session 2: “The Practicalities of working in teams using N6/NVivo” facilitated by Silvana di Gregorio

Venue: Van Mildert’s break out room & Ustinov room

12:00 – 13:00	Keynote address by Lyn Richards
(Director, Research Services, QSR International)

“Validity and Reliability? Yes! Doing it in Software.”

Venue: Ustinov Room (in Van Mildert college)

13:00 – 14:15
	Lunch

14:15 – 15:30	Plenary by Dr Jennifer Mason 
(Director of Leeds Social Sciences Institute, University of Leeds, UK and author of Qualitative Researching)

“Ways, Means and Motives: A personal journey through 20 years of computer assisted qualitative data analysis.”

Venue: Ustinov Room (in Van Mildert college)

15:30 – 16:30	Paper session 3

Session 3a: Team-working with QSR software

1. Linda Gilbert and Silvana di Gregorio – Team Research with QDA software: promises and pitfalls

2. Dan Kaczynski and Ed Miller – Evaluation Team Design Considerations Using NVivo

Session 3b: Software in the Dissertation

1. Fiona Wiltshier – Working in Tandem: NVivo and EndNote, Paper and PC

2. Lynne Johnstone – Technical and methodological learning curves: Reflections on the use of QSR NVivo in Doctoral Research.

Session 3c: Using NVIVO in diverse qualitative traditions

1. Graham Gibbs – Narrative analysis and NVivo

2. Kristina Bennert – Using NVivo for Data Processing and Preliminary Analysis in Discourse Analytic Research

Venue: Van Mildert’s break out rooms

16:30 – 17:00
	Coffee & tea

17:00 – 18:15 	Keynote address by Pat Bazeley
(Research Support, Australia)

“Quantifying Qualitative Data: The construction and interpretation of codes”

Venue: Ustinov room (in Van Mildert college)

18:30 – 19:00 	Pre conference drinks

19:30 – 21:00	Conference Dinner

With harp music presented by 
		Flora and Corrie Norris

21:00 onwards	Ceilidh and late bar

Friday (3 September 2004)

9:00 – 11:00	Paper Session 4

Session 4a: Teaching with NUD*IST and Nvivo

1. Judith Davidson – Grading NVivo: making the shift from training to teaching with software for qualitative data analysis

2. Chris Thorn – NVivo as a Teaching Environment: Eating Your Own Cooking.

3. Dan Kaczynski, Kristi Jackson and Lyn Richards – Examining the Relationship of QDAS with theory and practice

4. Graham Gibbs, Celia Taylor, Ann Lewins and Nigel Fielding – User Needs in Learning to Use NVivo and N6

Session 4b: Strategies for analysing and managing data across the quantitative/qualitative divide

1. Alina Reznitskaya and Richard Anderson – Quantifying Qualitative Data: Using NVivo to analyze argumentative discourse Analysis: Lessons Learned

2. Lillian Smith, Donna Richter, Kenneth Watkins, Stuart Usdan and Kathleen Miner – Using NVivo to Trace Diffusion of Distance Education in Schools of Public Health

3. Marya Shegog, Jacquie Fraser and Donna Richter – Using NVivo for a Mixed Method 

4. Amândio Graça – Using NVivo to Analyse Physical Education Cooperating Teachers’ Educational Perspectives.

Venue: Van Mildert’s break out rooms

11:00 – 11:30	Coffee & Tea

11:30 – 12:30	Panel discussion facilitated by Judith Davidson, with Lyn Richards, Lynn Johnstone, Silvana Di Gregorio and Pat Bazeley

Evaluating the performance of NVivo users: What demonstrates skill with NVivo ...and why is it important to do so?

Venue: Ustinov room (in Van Mildert college)
	
12:30 – 13:30 	Lunch

13:30 – 14:30
	Round Tables 2

Session 1: “Moving without losing: a roundtable on keeping (and enhancing) the techniques that previously worked for you.” Facilitator to be decided

Session 2: “Maximising transparency in a doctoral thesis.” Facilitator Lynn Johnstone

Session 3: “Uses of Diagrams in Qualitative Research.” Facilitated by Clare Tagg

Venue: Van Mildert’s break out rooms

14:30 – 15:00	Coffee & Tea

15:00 - 16:00	Keynote address by Tom Richards
(Founder and Chief Scientist, QSR International)

“Unleash the Power Within! What Node Hierarchies are really all about, why they are at the heart of powerful research techniques, and where they can take us next.”

Venue: Ustinov room (in Van Mildert college)
	
16:00	Conference ends

Saturday (4 September 2004)

9:30 – 12:30	Post-conference workshops