The study of the institutionalization of children and adolescents, as well as their outcomes, has accompanied me since my master’s degree in psychology at the Federal University of Bahia. Currently, I have dedicated myself to the adoption process, based o...
Research Examples
Program Evaluation: Lighthouse Foundation – young women impacted by early and forced marriage
Introduction The Lighthouse Foundation is an Australian charity providing therapeutic residential care for young people at risk of homelessness. The Lighthouse Early and Forced Marriage (EFM) therapeutic program was established in late 2018 with funding ...
Capturing public feeling towards COVID-19 vaccines using MAXQDA’s sentiment analysis for Twitter data
IMPORTANT: Following changes in the Twitter API regulations made by Twitter this year, MAXQDA will no longer be able to support the „Twitter import“ function (from April 29th onwards). Nonetheless, any Tweets already imported into a MAXQDA project can sti...
Duas visões sobre adoção de crianças e adolescentes: netnografia com apoio do MAXQDA
O estudo sobre a institucionalização de crianças e adolescentes, bem como seus desfechos, tem me acompanhado desde a condução do meu mestrado em psicologia pela Universidade Federal da Bahia. Atualmente, tenho me voltado ao processo de adoção, tomando com...
An Energy Efficiency Analysis of the Portuguese Water Sector: Interview Analysis with MAXQDA
In the previous article, I demonstrated how MAXQDA was instrumental in conducting a literature review of energy efficiency in the Portuguese water sector. In this one, I will show you how I managed to conduct interviews and organize them in my research wi...
Seeing what they think: using concept maps to explore educators’ Assessment Literacy
Guest post by Dr Martin Johnson and Tori Coleman. We work for Cambridge Assessment (https://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk), a university department that develops and researches educational assessments. In this research project we wanted to consider how ...
O recurso a MAXQDA para uma análise qualitativa e quantitativa de dados
A utilização de softwares de análise de dados em qualquer investigação é, indubitavelmente, uma ferramenta de trabalho imprescindível, a par do processo habitual de revisão bibliográfica que não só sustenta a razão de ser da investigação, como também o se...
Using MAXQDA in news media research combining quantitative and qualitative data
Guest post by Maria Freitas with the assistance of Francisco Freitas. The usage of software in research is becoming commonplace thanks to the wide variety of possibilities and functions available. Software packages like MAXQDA are tools to assist researc...
Regenerative Food Systems: developing 13 principles
Guest post by Sara El-Sayed. My research explores what characterizes a regenerative food system, specifically in arid regions. Starting in the summer of 2018 I began compiling data from different thematics that were organized into MAXQDA; these included ...
Learning Research Methodology in Practice: our hands-on method
Guest post by Sonia Mano & Vanessa Fernandes Guimarães. Introduction Since 2009, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, a unit of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, has offered a course in Specialization in Science, Technology Popularization and, after 2016, a Master’s de...