Bem-vindo à minha primeira entrada do Diário de Campo! Aqui tentarei destacar o consumo significativo de energia do sector da água português e o potencial de eficiência energética existente que não é devidamente explorado. Este breve enquadramento ajudará...
Research Examples
Women’s Experiences in the Mathematics Department – An Analysis through MAXQDA Color and Data Coding
Guest post by Weverton Ataide Pinheiro. This is my second and final research report from the 2019 MAXQDA Research for Change grant awarded by VERBI Software and MAXQDA. When I proposed this project one year ago, I was intrigued by the fact that people fr...
Qualitative Data Management with MAXQDA- Climate Change Adaptation Research Example
I recently completed all my dissertation data management and analysis using MAXQDA 2020 Analytics Pro. This article describes the process I used to manage a large qualitative data set and the different tools I used in MAXQDA for conducting and completing ...
Analysing drawings with MAXQDA: Human-Elephant Interaction Research Example
In my previous post, I shared the steps to analyse responses of local community members which were obtained through Focus Group Discussions. As a part of the same project I attempted to collect responses of school children on the subject of elephants. For...
Using Grounded Theory with MAXQDA to Explore Regenerative Food Practices
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...
MAXQDA’s Unusual Applications: Corpus-Based Linguistic Research for Reconstruction of Historical Somatics
Guest post by Maciej Talaga. Corpus in linguistics refers to a body of documented instances of “real world” utterances, usually in a digitised form enabling processing its contents with computer-based tools. Thanks to their organic nature and size, corpo...
How I used the search and autocode functions of MAXQDA to access knowledge about COVID-19
Post by Prof. Dr. Udo Kuckartz. At the beginning of February 2020, in the early days of the coronavirus period, our knowledge about the virus which causes COVID-19 was very limited. As the virus spread, a great need for information arose in all sections ...
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...