MAXQDA Professional Trainer

Qualitative Research Methods, Qualitative Content Analysis, Interview Analysis, Focus Group Discussions, Ethnographic Methods, Visual Tools

In Research: Since 2010 I have worked in various qualitative research projects and I always used MAXQDA for the analysis. To give you an insight into my research, I summarize the most important aspects of my projects in the following:

1. For my PhD thesis "Gender - Metal - Video Clips" (2010-2014; Institute of Musicology/University of Graz)
2. For the FWF/DFG research project "After Bologna: Gender Studies in Entrepreneurial Universities" (2012-2014; Institute of Sociology/University of Graz & ZIFG/TU Berlin)
3. The research project "Political Participation in the Austrian region Voitsberg" (2014-2015; Spectro/Graz & Vienna)
4. In the FWF PEEK research project "GAPPP: Gamified Audiovisual Performance and Performance Practice" (2016-2017; Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics/University of Music and Performing Arts Graz)
5. Currently I am working at the Web Literacy Lab at the FH JOANNEUM – University of Applied Sciences Graz

Teaching: Teaching: Since 2014, I have worked as a MAXQDA teacher at the GMZ - Grazer Methodenkompetenzzentrum (Methodological Competence Centre in Graz, Austria). Furthermore, I have taught qualitative research methods within various academic curricula at different universities since 2009. In my courses, I have always discussed MAXQDA with my students and I have introduced them to employ MAXQDA for different analysis strategies, such as grounded theory, qualitative content analysis or discourse analysis.

Some examples of research reports and publications about the above mentioned projects:

Eva Goldgruber, Susanne Sackl-Sharif, Robert Gutounig & Julian Ausserhofer (2017). Social Media as a Crisis Communication Arena: Digging into New Communication Spaces. In: A. Skarzauskiene & N. Gudeliene (Eds.): Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Social Media (ECSM). Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 115-123.

Gerlinde Malli & Susanne Sackl-Sharif (2015). „Researching One’s Own Field. Interaction Dynamics and Methodological Challenges in the Context of Higher Education Research [47 paragraphs]”, in: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 16(1), Art. 11, nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1501111.

Gerlinde Malli & Susanne Sackl-Sharif (2015). „Researching One’s Own Field. Interaction Dynamics and Methodological Challenges in the Context of Higher Education Research [47 paragraphs]”, in: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 16(1), Art. 11, nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1501111.

Susanne Sackl-Sharif (2016). Gemeindestruktur- und Landeskrankenhausreform. Eine vergleichende Analyse von Bürger_innenbeteiligungen im Bezirk Voitsberg. Online-Monographie. Wien: Spectro, http://www.spectro.st/PUBLIKATIONEN/Gemeindestruktur-und-Landeskrankenhausreform.

Susanne Sackl-Sharif (2015). Gender – Metal – Videoclips. Eine qualitative Rezeptionsstudie. Opladen/Berlin/Toronto: Budrich UniPress.

Gerlinde Malli, Susanne Sackl-Sharif & Elisabeth Zehetner (2015). Nach Bologna. Gender Studies in der unternehmerischen Hochschule. Eine Untersuchung in Österreich und der Schweiz. Online-Monographie. Universität Graz: UniPub, http://unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugroa/download/pdf/478245.