Guest post by Alysia Mann Carey. Since writing my last research diary entry, I have been doing work throughout the Northern Cauca region in Colombia. This entry will discuss my participatory and collaborative research on Development, Intersectionality, a...
Transferring Fieldnotes to MAXQDA: Digital Ethnography Research Example
Guest Post by Melinda González. In my first Fieldwork Diary Entry, I began by summarizing my project, which is situated across three field sites – Puerto Rico, New York, and digital media (Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram) in the aftermath of Hurricane M...
Communicating Health and Wellbeing Research Results with MAXQDA – Global Health Project Example
Guest post by Jessica Penney. Welcome to my final #ResearchforChange fieldwork diary entry! In this post, I will be explaining some of my research results and how I got there with the help of MAXQDA 2018. Then, I will discuss how I used MAXQDA to support...
Understanding Changing Conceptions of Health using MAXQDA – Interview and Focus Group Analysis Example
Guest post by Jessica Penney. Welcome to Part 2 of 3 of my fieldwork diary entries! In this entry, I will discuss how I used MAXQDA 2018 to analyze the data I collected. In my next post, I will discuss how MAXQDA allowed me to tailor conference presentat...
How to Present Fieldwork Data Analysis Results with MAXQDA
Guest Post by Lukas Maximilian Müller. While my last two fieldwork diary entries addressed the main method used in my research – causal process tracing – this one will discuss how MAXQDA is not only helpful in carrying out data analysis, but also a very ...
Fieldwork Across Diasporas – Early Fieldwork Analysis Phases and MAXQDA
Guest Post by Melinda González. This is my first fieldwork diary entry about my experiences with using MAXQDA as I embark on my dissertation research about community organizing across the Puerto Rican diaspora in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. My prim...
The Necessity of Categorizing Qualitative Data: Coding to Enrich Fieldwork Data Collection
Guest post by Ruijie Peng. After being in the field for about eight months, I have now collected many kinds of data including dozens of interview transcripts, hundreds of pages of field notes, analytical memos and summary notes. Even with all the materia...
Investigating the Human-Animal Relationship among the Even People of Siberia using MAXQDA
Guest Post by Aivaras Jefanovas. This is the first fieldwork diary entry about my research with the human-animal relationship among a small Even community of reindeer herders/hunters of the Yakutia North. The article will describe my fieldwork experience...
Ethnographic Data Collection and Analysis Strategies with MAXQDA – Grounded Theory Research Example
Guest post by Haitao Yu. Despite significant social and economic progress during the past two centuries, economic development - ironically - has put some communities’ livelihoods in peril through globalization. As the 21st century unfolds, sustainable de...
When Quantitative Methods Falter: A Mixed Methods Research Approach using MAXQDA
Guest post by Timothy Silberg. This is my third and final fieldwork diary entry about analyzing data using MAXQDA software. One component of the research investigates how land tenure institutions, social relations, and other components of a political-eco...