FIVE STEPS FOR CONDUCTING EFFECTIVE QUALITATIVE RESEARCH by Sarah Brown

Qualitative research can be a little complex than the quantitative research. In the latter, you only need to sum up the numerical data and statistics that you find into a conclusion. However, in the former, you need to write the whole research from an evaluative point of view. You have no numbers or figures to back up your analysis and you need to use the power of your words to deliver a study that speaks volumes.

Following five steps can help you create an effective qualitative research that could leave a lasting impression on your readers.

Step#1: Evaluate the Research Questions That Need To Be Addressed

The first and foremost step when conducting a research is to evaluate the research questions that need to be addressed. You need to decide on a topic for your research and then narrow down your choices to the queries that you need to address within the topic of your research. After you decide on the questions, only then can you move on to the next step.

Step#2: Formulate a Plan for Carrying Out Your Research

After you evaluate what questions you need to address in your research, your next step should be to formulate a plan that can help you carry out your research. You need to evaluate the list of people who will be the part of your research and the places you will be carrying your research out at. Then you need to formulate the time intervals that you will be carrying out your research in, and finally the methodology that you will use in order to carry out the plan.

Step#3: Collect All the Data Needed For Conducting Research

Try to be an observer and start collecting all the data that you need for your research. Ask people away if you want to, read out on the previous researches and ask the big fish in the pond to help you out with your research. Qualitative analysis is normally done in a small environment with lesser number of participants, as quantity tends to degrade the quality of the analysis needed for the research.

Step#4: Analyze the Statistics and Generate Results

You might have asked an easy question as a topic of your research that generated your results in yes, no or a maybe. All you need to do, in order to compile your findings into conclusion, is group the similar answers together and then evaluate the results. You can also take help of nifty software and seniors in the field to create perfect results needed for your research.

Step#5: Evaluate the Results and Draw Out A Conclusion

Make use of questionnaires and surveys to evaluate the results and draw out a conclusion. Evaluate what you believe might be the results, take in a feedback from the seniors and professionals in the field and draw out a conclusion. When you take all the factors into consideration, you will be amazed to see the effectivity of the results.

With these five steps, you can effectively conduct a qualitative research without any need of further obstructions or hassles coming your way.

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Credit to : http://uthmag.com/five-steps-conducting-effective-qualitative-research/

Biodata of Speaker

Hj. Kamaruzaman Jusoff (ResearcherID: F-1014-2010) was born in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia on 28th March 1958. He received a PhD in Forest Engineering Survey (a multi disciplinary field) from Cranfield University, England, UK in 1992 under the Committee of the UK Vice– Chancellor’s Overseas Research Student Award (ORS). His postdoctoral work on Advance Digital Image Processing was with The University of Dundee, Scotland under the sponsorship of British Chevening Research Scholar Award. He was a Professor (Grade VK6/B) with Universiti Putra Malaysia and has been a Visiting Professor/Scholar/Scientist with Harvard, Kyoto, Yale University and an Erasmus Mundus Professor with Lund University, Sweden and ITC, The Netherlands. In April 2013, he was offered a Grade VK5/A Professor with the UTM Perdana School of Science, Technology & Innovation Policy but declined the offer.

He was attached with Universitas Hasanuddin (UNHAS) in Makassar, South Sulawesi for a month as a Consulting Editor for International Journal of Agricultural Systems (IJAS) cum Visiting Expert Professor with UNHAS Program Pascasarjana. He has also been invited twice to deliver keynote talks to postgraduate students and staff at the Oxford University Center for Environment (OUCE), Grenoble Institute of Technology in Grenoble, southern France and University of Maryland@ Baltimore County (UMBC), USA in the area of forestry airborne hyperspectral imaging and advance image processing. He has authored/co-authored and published more than 300 papers on top of his four technical (Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging for Forestry & Agriculture Applications) and four non-technical books including his three popular books entitled “Secrets of Successful Journal Writing & Publication Revealed”, “Academician Career Roadmap” and “The ABCs of PhD”. As of 21 Oct 2013, his has an H-Index (GS) of 13 with 975 total number of citations and 844 number of new citations in the last 5 years (since 2008) to all his cited publications.
He has been invited by almost all the Malaysian public (UPM, UKM, USM, UTM, UM, UIAM, UiTM, UTHM, UTeM, UniMAP, UPSI, UMP, USIM, UUM, UPNM, ASWARA), private universities and colleges (Monash University Sunway Campus, Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus, UNIRAZAK, MMU, UTP, UNISEL, UniKL, KISDAR/KUISAS, KUIS), private organizations/Foundation/NGOs (IKIM, YaPEIM, IEM) Polytechnics (POLIKB, POLISAS), Ministries (Peninsular Malaysia Forestry Dept HQ, IHMMoH, AKEPT-MoHE/MoE) and research institutions (MPOB, MIMOS, NUCLEAR) to conduct 1-4 days Workshops on Journal Writing & Publishing, Postgraduate Research Proposal Writing and Research Methodology since 2007. In 2012-2013 alone, he has been invited more than five times to Indonesia to conduct similar workshops at UNHAS, UNDANA, UNIMED, UMI, and UNHALU to selected Indonesian academics to assist them in international Scopus/ISI ranked journal publishing.

Recently, he has also been invited to conduct High Impact Journal W&P by Beaver & Beaver Management Solutions (PTY) Ltd, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Upon his return from The Harvard Forest, Harvard University in 2010, his deep interest covers the art of journal writing and publishing across a multi, inter and transdisciplinary field of arts, humanities and social sciences applications to the human aspects of forestry, engineering, higher education, academic leadership, IT and Islamic development. He is currently serving 10 international ISI/Scopus/Citation/Direct Open Access indexed journals covering multi/cross disciplinary fields of sciences, social science, arts and humanities as Chief Editor/Editorial Board Member/International Scientific Advisory Board Member. On personal front, Hj. Kamaruzaman’s approachable personality renders him a referral point for advice and insights for budding academics in the world of academia. Having taken the lead, shared and with his noteworthy achievements of lasting value to human kind and of university importance, he seldom, if not hardly fails to let down those who seek his assistance, advice and assurance from his words of wisdom. Indeed, Hj. Kamaruzaman Jusoff, an outstanding persona in the world of academia and leadership, deserves the standing ovation.

Want to know more about Professor Hj. Kamaruzaman Jusoff? Come join us in this workshop;

Course Title: Three Days Workshop on High Impact Journal Writing and Publishing

Date: 22 & 24 August 2014 (Friday & Sunday) 
Time: 8.30 a.m. - 5.30 p.m. 
Venue: MPWS Training Centre, 63-1, 63-2, Jalan Kajang Impian 1/11, 
Taman Kajang Impian, Seksyen 7, 43650 Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor 
Speaker: Professor Hj. Kamaruzaman Jusoff 

Registration Fee: RM450 (early bird rate) until 10 July 2014

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One Day Workshop on Qualitative Analysis Using Nvivo 

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19 February 2014 (Wednesday) | By Dr. Siti Uzairiah Mohd Tobi

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Qualitative Research and Data Analysis using NVivo software

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This is some info about Qualitative Research and Data Analysis using NVivo software.

What is Qualitative Research?

• Qualitative research is all about exploring issues, understanding phenomena, and answering questions?
• It analyzed the unstructured information through the data gathered from the related research topic.
• It gains insight into people’s attitudes, behaviors, value systems, concerns, motivations, aspirations, culture or lifestyle.
• It’s used to inform decisions, policy information, communication & research.

What is Qualitative Research software?

• Helps people to manage, shape and make sense of unstructured information.
• It does NOT do the thinking for you; it provides a sophisticated workspace that enables you to work through your information.
• It has tools for classifying, sorting and arranging information.
• It gives you more time to analyze the materials, identify the themes, glean insight and develop meaningful conclusions.
• ‘TRY & ERROR’ OR ‘TRY & ADJUST’

What is NVivo?

NVivo is software that helps you easily organize and analyze unstructured information, so that you can ultimately make better decisions.

 Whatever your materials, whatever your field, whatever your approach, NVivo provides a workspace to help you at every stage of your project - from organizing your material, through to analysis, and then sharing and reporting.

“NVivo is more than a simple qualitative data analysis program; it is a vital resource for planning, team coordination, literature reviews, research design, data analysis and reporting.”

Chris Atchison, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Simon Fraser University)

NVIVO as computer aided software

Computer aided software need to be treated as an aided tool (Nacos et al., 1991) and not as a replacement for highly developed human capabilities of reading, transcribing, and translating written matter. 

It is vital for a researcher to have the skills and ideas to challenge their analysis by undergoing a manual procedure to ensure the reliability and validity of doing research.

Researchers need to bear in mind that, only they know what they are trying to seek from the raw data, and how they could possibly manipulate the data towards the right direction.

What does NVivo help you achieve?

• Spend more time on analysis and discovery, not administrative tasks.

• Work systematically and ensure you don’t miss anything in your data.

• Interrogate your information and uncover subtle connections in ways that simply aren’t possible manually.

• Rigorously justify your findings with evidence.

• Manage all your material in one project file.

• Easily work with material in your own language.

• Effortlessly share your work with others.

At the end of the program you should be able to start your analysis using NVivo to cater your research need by providing/reporting your result in systematic way.

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Course Title : One Day Workshop on Qualitative Analysis Using NVivo

Date » 28 October 2013 (Monday) Time » 8.30 a.m. - 5.30 p.m. Venue » Wisma R&D, Universiti Malaya Speaker » Dr. Siti Uzairiah Mohd Tobi Registration Fee » RM180 Medium » English Website » http://postgraduateworkshop.com/nvivo/

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