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Although you’ve been working as a researcher for many years, a refresher course can be very helpful. With this workshop qualitative methods, we deal with interviews, deskresearch, observation etc. We discuss research options and – criteria. The workshop contains a presentation and a Q&A-session, so all your questions will be answered.

Although you’ve been working as a researcher for many years, a refresher course can be very helpful. With this workshop quantitative methods, we deal with survey research, experiments, secondary analysis etc. We discuss research options and – criteria. The workshop contains a presentation and a Q&A-session, so all your questions will be answered.

This workshop is aimed at coaching thesis supervisors in higher education. Every student in higher education graduates upon passing their final project or professional product. The latter consists of a great deal of applied research. Supervisors often experience similar challenges with supervising students, such as time pressure, keeping appointments, procrastination, poor quality or communication with the internship organization. During this workshop we will not only share our common experiences but also exchange tips & tricks for effective and efficient supervision.

Have you just started to work as a professional or researcher? Fresh from college? Is doing research part of your job description? Or have you been working as a professional, but you only recently started to carry out research projects? Then one of the introductory workshops or courses might work for you. Whether it’s choosing the right design, research quality, data collection or analysis, I offer a clear introduction and make sure that you can start your research well equipped. In general I work in small groups and in-company.

When doing qualitative analysis, there are a lot of software packages to choose from, some very expensive and complete, others a lot cheaper but simpler. During this workshop you will get acquainted with ATLASti, a package for qualitative analysis that’s being used in many research organizations and institutes of higher education. You will learn how to upload your data into the program, how to assign codes, create themes and visualize your diagrams. Combinations with other workshops are optional, e.g interview technique and analysis.

The software package SPSS is considered the standard when doing statistical analyses. Many higher education programs teach their students how to work with SPSS. However, it still occurs a lot that starting professionals have insufficient baseline knowledge of how the program works. This workshop leads you into uncovering the basic principles of SPSS. The target group are junior researchers / professionals or researchers that change from qualitative to quantitative analysis.

Nowadays, Thematic analysis is frequently used when analyzing qualitative material. It is a stepwise approach to uncovering interview data, audio- and video material. During this workshop I will show you how you can use the six-step-method to create fragments, codes and themes in your material and how to present the results. We do not use any expensive software during this workshop: for the analysis we will work with Word, Excel and (freeware) Taguette. A combination with other workshops is possible, e.g interviewtechnique and analysis.

During this intervision session, everyone brings a laptop with SPSS and a challenge or puzzle involving an advanced statistical analysis. During this session we work towards giving you more insight into possible solutions to your statistical problems so you can improve your (already advanced) knowledge of SPSS even further.

The purpose of this workshop is to boost your skills in (advanced) statistical analysis. I will refresh these skills by discussing hypothesis testing, bivariate and multivariate models (e.g t-test, ANOVA, regression analysis), using SPSS. And (of course) we will address all your questions, puzzles and especially requested methods.