Field Work Diary

The Necessity of Categorizing Qualitative Data: Coding to Enrich Fieldwork Data Collection

ElizabethMonday, December 10, 2018

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

ElizabethMonday, November 26, 2018

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

ElizabethMonday, November 19, 2018

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

ElizabethMonday, October 29, 2018

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…

Indigenous Research Methods and MAXQDA

ElizabethWednesday, October 17, 2018

Guest post by Jessica Penney. An Indigenous Research Methods-guided MSc dissertation project in Labrador, Canada: Understanding Changing Conceptions of Health using MAXQDA Welcome to my first fieldwork diary entry! This will be the first blog entry of …

Collaborative Research with MAXQDA – Transcribing and Coding Multimedia Fieldwork Archives

ElizabethMonday, September 17, 2018

Guest post by Alysia Mann Carey. Since writing my last fieldwork diary entry, I have arrived in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. This entry will discuss my participatory and collaborative research with the community-based political organization, Reaja (React), …

Tracing Causality within Complex Data Sets using MAXQDA

ElizabethWednesday, July 25, 2018

Guest post by Lukas Müller. From Data Output to Analysis and Back AgainMeeting stakeholders at the Laotian Ministry of Science and Technology In my last fieldwork diary entry I wrote about how, by using MAXQDA's Code Matrix Browser and Complex Codin…

Visualizing Gendered Experiences with MAXMaps

ElizabethMonday, July 9, 2018

Guest post by Timothy Silberg. This is my second fieldwork diary entry about my research conducted with MAXQDA, investigating socioeconomic drivers of parasitic weed (Striga spp.) control practices in Malawi. In my first blog post, I mentioned that I wou…

Participant Observation Methods and MAXQDA

ElizabethTuesday, June 19, 2018

Guest post by Ruijie Peng. Getting Grounded in the Field - Analyzing Participant Observation Data with MAXQDA's Visual Tools This fieldwork diary entry is an update to my previous research phase, in which I had just arrived in rural China to begin my ye…

Framework of Intimacy Analysis with MAXQDA

ElizabethTuesday, May 8, 2018

Guest post by Alysia Mann Carey. This is my first blog post about my research journey with MAXQDA. Currently, I am in the process of writing an article about some of the fieldwork and analysis I have already done, using MAXQDA. The paper concentrate…