I started my fieldwork on regenerative food systems in the summer of 2018. I intended to explore what a regenerative food system in arid regions is, what its characteristics are, and what practices people employ. The research began with a literature revie...
Writing Myself out of the Quarantine Slump: Getting Started with MAXQDA’s Literature Review Function
One day while on Twitter—my social media platform of peace and refuge--, I came across a tweet asking about personal coping mechanisms dealing with writing your dissertation during quarantine. I sat there and thought: Truthfully, how have I been coping? W...
Embarking on a Journey with MAXQDA through an Energy Efficiency Analysis of the Portuguese Water Sector: Reviewing Literature
Welcome to my first Field Diary Entry! Here I will try to highlight the Portuguese water sector’s significant energy consumption and existing energy efficiency potential that is not properly exploited. This brief framework will help to understand the rele...
Ethnographic Study of an Enterprise: Long-Term Data Collection and Analysis with MAXQDA
Guest post by Haitao Yu. My data collection started in 2017 when I was using MAXQDA 12. Now, as I’m revisiting the data, MAXQDA 2020 has been released. Over the last three years, the software has been making my life easier to organize and revisit the lar...
Research in the Wake of a Cyclone: Visualizing Code Co-Occurrences with MAXQDA Research Example
Guest post by Raka Sen. This fieldwork diary entry builds upon my article about Indexing by Typology and Coding for Variables with MAXQDA. Since I last wrote, there was a Cyclone in my fieldsite in early November 2019. After wrapping up my coursework for...
Coding – Optimizing, Rethinking – Coding: Ethnographic Data Analysis with MAXQDA Research Example
Guest Post by Aivaras Jefanovas. This is my third and final #ResearchforChange fieldwork diary entry about how I have been applying MAXQDA in my Ph.D. research on human-animal relationships in a small Eveny community of reindeer herders/hunters in the No...
Collective Action as a tool to advance Dalit women’s access to justice – Analysing Focus Group Discussions with MAXQDA
Guest post by Lisa van Aalst. Dear reader, I am happy to be writing my second and final Field Research Diary entry on my research journey with MAXQDA. As part of my Master thesis, I conducted research on the topic: “Dalit women and Access to Justice - A...
Salinity Intrusion in the Sundarbans: Indexing by Typology and Coding for Variables with MAXQDA – Crosstab Analysis Example
Guest Post by Raka Sen This is my first fieldwork diary entry about collecting and coding sociological data in the Sundarban Mangrove forest of India and Bangladesh. The Sundarbans are one of the most climate-vulnerable regions globally. Climate Change ...
Editing Automatically Created Interview Transcripts with MAXQDA: Research Example “Women Dismantling Biases in Mathematical Spaces”
Guest post by Weverton Ataide Pinheiro. This is my first blog post about my research journey with MAXQDA. My research project was born out of questions regarding why mathematics departments across the world are still predominantly composed of men. Speci...
Investigating Strategies used by Dalit Women to Gain Access to Justice: Fieldwork and Data Transcription with MAXQDA
Guest post by Lisa van Aalst. This is my first fieldwork diary entry from my research journey with MAXQDA. As part of my master's thesis, I'm conducting research on the topic: “Dalit women and Access to Justice - An Analysis of accessing justice for the ...
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