i am a PhD students who still working on getting my proposal ready to be tested for the confirmation of candidature. I am now trying to finalize the methodology part. I am a bit confuse because I want to use thematic analysis as i have videos, audi and interviews to analyse. Can I use NVivo tool for coding with thematic analysis? I thought NVivo can do the whole thing. Honestly am so confused and feel stuck. Your advice will be highly appreciated in this regard. I feel sometimes the picture still not clear for me.
Hi Zaror,
I'm in your part of the world - based at Flinders University in Adelaide.
Yes - NVivo is more than capable of coding your thematic analysis.
The attached chapter may assist.
Hi Zaror,
As Dean mentioned it is possible to use NVIVO do code different types of data such as text, audio, video, reference database etc. The strategy of coding depends on the amount of data you have. If you have huge amoubt of text data you might identify all of them, code a sample of it and use autocoding function to apply it in all data.
Patton, M.Q., 2015. Qualitative research & evaluation methods: integrating theory and practice, Fourth edition. ed. SAGE Publications, Inc, Thousand Oaks, California. Kind Regards Roland
Absolutely, you can also use another tool like AQUAD.
I suggest the following read concerning coding:
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