Getting a foot in the door with qualitative research

Most of the examples the blog has covered so far have been about using Quirkos for research, especially with interview and participant text sources. However, Quirkos can take any text source you can open on your computer, including text PDFs (but not scanned PDFs where each page is effectively a photograph). So why not use Quirkos like a reference manager, to sort and analyse a large cohort of articles and research? The advantage being that you

A quick look at the British Library thesis catalogue suggests that around 800 theses are completed every year in the UK using qualitative methods*. This suggests that 7% of the roughly 10,000 annual British PhDs completed use qualitative methods. There are likely to be many more masters theses, and even undergraduate dissertations that use some qualitative methods, so the student demand for qualitative training is considerable.   Usually,