This is an updated version of the article Transcribing Audio with MAXQDA 11. In most cases when you conduct and record interviews, you end up with an mp3 audio file that needs to be transcribed. Transcription is often done with a foot pedal, which can be...

In most research projects the code system changes a lot during each step of the analysis. New codes are created, codes are renamed, combined, differentiated or sometimes even deleted. How many times have you deleted a code and later wished you had kept it...

Sometimes, when you are working on a MAXQDA project with a really long and complex code system structure you might find that you want to pursue coding for a specific theme, and use certain codes that are spread out across your code system. This might mean...

The field of discourse analysis includes different approaches and methodologies. There is neither a unified theory on what discourse analysis actually is nor a certain method used to do research on it. Within the Social Sciences it’s often interesting to ...

This tip of the months was written by Elgen Sauerborn, who is a PhD student at the sociology department of the Freie Unversität Berlin, Germany. I started my PhD on women in leadership positions and emotional labor in 2013. Working towards finishing my...

About Dr. Uta-Kristina Meyer This tip of the months comes from Dr. Uta-Kristina Meyer, who is an educational scientist and teaches at the University of Marburg, Germany. She started using MAXQDA to manage excerpts during her college education and has...

Use the Smart Publisher to export your codes and your coded segment into a ready-to-print word document. Each code is automatically turned into a chapter of the report, and each chapter contains all of the quotes that belong to this code. This makes it re...

This tip of the month shows you how to transfer your MAXQDA projects from MAXQDA for Windows to Mac and the other way round! (more…)...

You have coded all of your data - now what? The most important notion here is that a software will not interpret your data for you. MAXQDA has powerful and easy-to-use tools that help you during the steps you take to interpret your data, but no qualitati...

Imagine you are working in a reasearch team using MAXQDA. You started to analyze 5 interviews and another team member has worked with 5 different interviews from the same research project. Now you want to merge your interviews into the same MAXQDA project...