In funded research, the focus is on research outcomes and findings. Somebody has paid for the research and they want to know the answers. Fewer people want to know how it was done. Research processes are messy, and in qualitative research, they are usually very ‘wordy’, so if and when

Every week on Sunday evening, a bot writes the same message in our group chat: Well done on making it to the end of the week! How did this week go? Do you want to set some goals for next week? Spurred on by ideas floating around social media, my

In qualitative research, most data collection comes from conversations. It's researchers and participants talking, interviewing, running focus groups and sharing verbal information about their lives that makes for rich and revealing discourse. One of the most requested features from our users has been an automated transcription service. A way that

2022 has been a busy year at Quirkos - we launched Quirkos Web, our browser-based version, and we’ve been working on some secret big new features due to arrive in 2023. It’s also been a busy year for the researchers using our software! This year, there were at

You'll see lots of literature on qualitative analysis talk about using both codes and themes, but they are difficult concepts to explain and often the lines between them are blurred. But that's good! Usually approaches like thematic analysis or grounded theory talk about creating codes and then themes as two

Previous blogs focused on safety aspects of researching in the field [https://www.quirkos.com/blog/post/practical-advice-for-your-safety/], and one aspect of this is doing qualitative interviews in someone's home. Even though changing COVID rates and restrictions may make this more challenging, there are multiple reasons you might consider a

Qualitative analysis software should be just like using Google Docs. That means it should be easy to create a document or project. It should just work in your browser without needing to install anything. That you should be able to access your work anywhere. That it should have all the same features

This post is Part Two of a two-parter about why and how you should get to your qualitative analysis as soon as you can. The first post covers why you should start your qualitative analysis earlier than you think [https://www.quirkos.com/blog/post/when-do-you-have-enough-data-to-start-analysing/] , while this one talks

Qualitative research is one of my favourite things to think about. In particular, I have a keen interest in understanding  what influences and affects the analysis process, as well as the way we, see and interpret the data. Two years ago, over a Zoom catch up, Andreas Müller was showing

When I was a student, I found it tricky to manage big qualitative research projects with lots of text to analyse. I might have hundreds of pages’ worth of novels, or thousands of free-text responses from surveys. It was hard to look at all that data and not feel overwhelmed!