2023: NVivo for PC

*For HDR/MRes Candidates. MQ Staff/Researchers please email gr.development@mq.edu.au to check availability*

Please note this workshop will be delivered across two days:

Part 1: Thursday, 16 November 2023, 1:15pm – 4:30pm

Part 2: Friday, 17 November 2023, 1:15pm – 4:30pm

 Pre-requisites:

·          Familiarity with concepts of qualitative data analysis, e.g. coding, memo etc.

·          Have texts to analyse, or collected data (e.g. interviews/focus groups)

·          Data in Word or PDF that you can analyse. Please do not bring numerical datasets in Excel or CSV files. 

Course Description:

This course aims to give you practical NVivo skills that can be applied directly to your research project. You will get the most benefits if you have texts that you can analyse.

Throughout the day, you will:

·          get to know the NVivo workspace

·          learn how to create a project

·          import data sources

·          create codes, memos, annotations

·          conduct basic queries of codes and texts

Download, Install, Set up NVivo 20:

·       To download NVivo 20, go to the MQ IT services page and click on the NVivo link. Follow the NVivo installation steps, and set up NVivo on your laptop or hard drive of your computer. Please do not download and install NVivo when you are logging into the MQ network using "app stream" or you are in a "virtual lab". Once you have installed NVivo, copy the NVivo licence key (16 character/number sequence) which is provided in the installation steps, to activate NVivo.

·       If you encounter difficulties downloading NVivo, contact IT Service Desk.

·       If you have started a project in NVivo 12 and want to continue using NVivo 12, you do not have to download and install NVivo 20. There is not much difference between the two versions and you will be supported on using NVivo 12 during this course. If you want to use NVivo 20, follow the download and installation steps above. Your NVivo 12 file will be automatically converted to NVivo 20 format and you will not lose any data. Once your file has been converted to NVivo 20, you will not be able to convert it back to NVivo 12.

What to bring:

·       Your device with NVivo 20 already downloaded and installed on your laptop/computer.

·       Interview data or texts that you wish to analyse. Two or three interview texts/interview transcripts/journal articles are sufficient.  Please read over your texts a couple of times beforehand so you are familiar with your data, and take some time to think about how you want to analyse it (themes, concepts, issues, categories etc.);

·       Please have at least two large screens visible for the workshop, eg connect your laptop to an external monitor or use two devices that you can log in to Zoom: one to view the instructor screen and the other for you to work on NVivo. This way you can share your screen with the instructor if you need assistance during the workshop.

Mac users: NVivo on Windows and Mac are separate software applications with different project file formats, features, and layouts. Although this workshop is designed specifically around NVivo for Windows, Mac-based NVivo users are welcome to attend this workshop noting that the Mac version of NVivo differs in program layout so please refer to the relevant guide (which will be circulated before the workshop) for reference.

To help the workshop facilitator, please indicate that you are a Mac user in the Special Needs box when registering

Graduate Research Students