Guest post by Medha Nayak. In recent years, lethal encounters between humans and elephants have made headlines in Odisha, a state in eastern India. Media reports from the last five years (between 2014-2019) show 379 elephant deaths due to various reasons...
Research Examples
Exploring and visualising historical narratives with MAXQDA – Visual tools praxis example
Guest post by Maciej Talaga. Traditionally, historical research made modest use of qualitative data visualisation methods, instead focusing on crafting written narrations (Topolski, 2012). However, such a data storytelling strategy, albeit methodical and...
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...
Refugee Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Research: Mixed Methods with MAXQDA Stats Example
Guest post by Ghenet Besera & Milkie Vu. Picture of Atlanta, our field site Project Background and Context The state of Georgia in the U.S. is a top destination for refugees in recent years. While refugee women are at risk for poor sexual and rep...
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...
Using MAXQDA to Understand Perspectives on Mathematics Assessment – Education Research Example
Guest post by Natalie Nóbrega Santos, Vera Monteiro & Lourdes Mata - Centro de Investigação em Educação, ISPA – Instituto Universitário. What is assessment? “…[it] is to give grades because good grades lead to a good job, to have money and then a g...
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...
Studying Leisure and Recreation in the Guidelines for Brazilian Physical Education with MAXQDA – Content Analysis Example
Guest post by Fernando Resende Cavalcante. The aim of this article is to demonstrate how MAXQDA was used in the Content Analysis (Bardin 2016) phases of my research project on the analysis of leisure and recreation within the guidelines for Brazilian Phy...
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 ...
7 Reasons Why MAXQDA is the Ideal Analysis Tool for Your Next Research / Consultation Project
Guest post by Jared Bothwell, Managing Director, PublicVoice. MAXQDA is a powerful computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS). This may sound very technical, but in layman’s terms, MAXQDA is software, which helps researchers and analys...