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Online QDA is a set of learning materials which address common issues of undertaking qualitative data analysis (QDA) and beginning to use Computer Assisted Qualitative Data AnalysiS (CAQDAS) packages. We aim to complement courses run by, for example, the CAQDAS Networking project, many independent trainers and the large number of undergraduate and postgraduate social sciences research methods training courses.

Bex Hewett posted a link from this journal earlier on blog diaries. This is the home page. I've just got some useful information about using a case study from here (vol 3, issue 4). Useful journal! Thought it was worth posting again :-)

Using blogs as a diary in research

Thanks for this Bex, it's always good to get references to this sort of material. I have had a research blog since Nov 2008 and see it as a way to strengthen 'the researcher as research instrument' that is me. I wrote a guest post on thethesiswhisper.wordpress.com blog a couple of months ago on social media and the phd and there are a few more references in that. See http://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/social-media-and-your-phd

The notion of researcher as research instrument is a central one to most qualitative inquiry. This is a blog and readings I posted after giving a presentation to the QI SIG at RMIT in May 2009.

[Article] Feudalism & academia: UK academics' accounts of research culture http://is.gd/k72Ae (Int J Qual Studies in Education) #KM $

Research Methods Knowledge Base

Thanks Liz, very helpful guide to getting over that 'blank page' intertia.

Research project on using CHAT, Cultural Historical Activity Theory, in a project about library programmes, showing the steps in using the methodology.