2024 has been a very productive year indeed. Our Web app and transcription service has grown and improved, and has now incorporated some of the most requested features from users. We launched our free course on qualitative research and refreshed our manual to make it clearer and reflect the many

From the outside, getting an academic journal paper published can look pretty straight-forward. Write a ‘good’ paper about your research, submit it to a journal, get some comments back from the referees or reviewers, make some edits, re-submit and wait for the accolades to pour in once it’s been

I'm not sure how it's snuck up on us, but Quirkos is 10 years old today! It was on October 8th, 2014 that we released the first public version of Quirkos, at a party at a pub in Leith, I pressed the 'upload' button,

This guest blog-post ties in with the International Creative Research Methods Conference 2024, by Dr Jess Mannion: a Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Social Care and Social Work at Manchester Metropolitan University. She specialises in co-produced research with people with learning disabilities on sexual citizenship using visual and

Knowing a range of theoretical frameworks can help you examine your qualitative data through a new lens. So, I invite you to keep reading even if you don't consider yourself a 'feminist researcher'. This post will talk about some important concepts in feminist research and how

We've just made a buck of improvements to Quirkos Web - our simple qualitative software tool that works directly in your browser. The biggest new feature is the Merge functionality, allowing you to easily merge one or more projects together. This helps working with team-members who are offline,

When you finally get qualitative data in your hands, after planning, ethics approval, sampling and recruitment, collecting your data and getting it transcribed, it’s an exciting, and long-awaited moment. It's almost impossible to resist the temptation to jump straight into coding and exploring this intriguing and rich

We have created a course to help you learn qualitative research step-by-step by carefully selecting from our large collection of Quirkos blogs, webpages, and videos. The theme is ‘Doing Qualitative Research’ and you can take the course right now for free. The benefits of the Quirkos curated course: Doing Qualitative

Our users have had some fantastic achievements this year. Just from Google Scholar alone, in 2023 they completed and published approximately 20 monographs and book chapters, 170 journal articles and 180 doctoral and master's theses...