Analysis of Qualitative Data

This live online course provides an understanding of, and experience in using, the skills and techniques involved in conducting qualitative interviews. (NatCen trainers) * Price: £330 for SRA members, £440 for non-members. It runs over two days and uses Zoom software *
This two-day course gives participants an understanding of, and experience in using, the skills and techniques involved in conducting qualitative interviews to a high standard. It will be delivered via a combination of taught and practical sessions. The trainers all have extensive experience of conducting in-depth interviews for qualitative studies.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be:
This course requires some prior knowledge or experience of conducting qualitative research.
You will find the course useful if:
Mehul Kotecha joined NatCen as a Senior Researcher in March 2008. He has led on a number of qualitative studies including evaluations of back to work programmes (e.g. process evaluation of the Support for the Very Long-Term Unemployed Trailblazer programme), research into financial and material circumstances in old age (e.g. exploring the relationship between material deprivation and pensioner poverty and a study which explored older people's attitudes towards the principle of automatic awards of Pension Credit), and research into education and skills (e.g. a study exploring motivations and barriers to part-time post-16 education).
Mehul has worked with a diverse range of respondents and has experience of a range of qualitative methods - including in-depth interviews and focus groups. Prior to this, Mehul was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, based at London South Bank University - where he also received his doctorate in Sociology.
Sarah Frankenburg is a Research Director working in the Household Surveys team. She has previously worked on the English Housing Survey and on a series of evaluation projects looking at early years and school age interventions.
Before working at the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), Sarah worked at a small social research organisation where she specialised in researching issues concerning adults with learning disabilities and people in contact with the criminal justice system.
Sarah has an MSc in the History and Philosophy of Science from Imperial College London and University College London, and a BSc (Hons) in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method from LSE.
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