Course outline

Aims of this course

Gain the knowledge and practice you need to begin your work with NVivo in our two-day workshop. Qualitative research software like NVivo, helps people to manage, shape and make sense of unstructured information. It doesn’t do the thinking for you; it provides a work space and tools to enable you to easily work through your information.With purpose built tools for classifying, sorting and arranging information, qualitative research software gives you more time to analyze your materials, identify themes, glean insight and develop meaningful conclusions.

Who will benefit from the course?

This workshop is for you if you are involved in analyzing data of non- numerical nature within your organization. If you are involved in qualitative type of research, attending this workshop will expand your skills portfolio to include computer assisted qualitative data deciphering. This workshop will also be valuable to employees or consultants involved in assignments that involve qualitative data (e.g. interviews, focus group interviews, individual respondents’ written feedback).

How will I benefit?

At the end of the NVivo course, you will have the knowledge to set up a project in NVivo, import your data and begin to work with it. You will also be able to use NVivo 10 to organize your content and begin to identify themes, topics or ideas. Once you have completed Nvivo Essentials, the Further Analysis with NVivo course will offer an in depth approach to analysing your information.

Course overview

Aims of this course

1. To introduce this modern statistical software package, which enables analysis of multi level data
2. To develop skills with which to analyze cross sectional and longitudinal data
3. To expose participants to lower level and upper level data

Who will benefit from the course?

This workshop is for you if you are involved in analyzing data within your organization. If you are involved in quantitative consumer research, you will benefit by learning new quantitative data analysis skills. If you are involved in qualitative research, you will expand your skills portfolio to include quantitative techniques. This workshop will also be valuable for consultants involved in assignments that produce quantitative data (e.g. usability tests, surveys and focus groups).

How will I benefit?

While most statistics software packages only function with individual data, HLM provides a more powerful solution for making predictions; from the group level to individual outcomes. For example, with this software, users can predict that leadership styles will influence individual effectiveness. Since each group has its own leadership styles, it has its own group data (upper level) while effectiveness is maintained at the individual data level(lower level). A similar phenomenon emerges in the school environment. Students at level 1, teachers at level 2 and the school at level 3. In sociology, neighborhoods function at level 2, while the individual functions at level 1. HLM software is able to see the relationships from upper level to lower level, and can also make predictions at the individual level.

Qualitative research methodology design constitutes a skill pervasive throughout research. To know how to design qualitative research, practically and pragmatically, does not simply constitute collecting and describing data, like many workshops suggest or imply. Qualitative research design becomes a highly intricate technique, only learnt and mastered through practice with skilled scientists, and not simply teachers of qualitative theory.

This workshop is, without question, unlike others. There is minimal theory, yet there is substantial instruction, focusing on junctures between theory and practice. The workshop constitutes two whole days of applying concepts, designs, and methods to data, and most importantly, achieving research results. The workshop clearly and precisely delineates the mastery of postmodern writing, following which, participants will strongly position themselves to master qualitative research writing, and to prepare for any journal submission!

The Qualitative Research Methods Design workshop covers numerous practical qualitative methodology designs central to qualitative research, as well as high-impact writing styles and writing architectures. The workshop does not deal with insignificant methodologies, but rather, those methodological designs that immediately get workshop participants working as social, humanities, and hence soft sciences researcher and analyst.

The workshop organizers offer continuous life-long support for all research projects, through the CCISUM QMC (Qualitative Methods Community).

For
Academics and students needing to write and publish research papers

Academics and students needing to write reports and theses

Academics, and professionals needing to know how to DO qualitative research

This workshop is for you!

Course overview

Publishing is an important business for academics. People write with various motives- altruism, career advancement, job promotion, fulfilling a minimum requirement for annual performance and so forth. Dissemination of research findings constitutes an essential part of the scientific research process, and writing in scientific journals becomes a means of communication of research findings.

Thus, for academics, the old adage “publish or perish” has never been truer.

This two-day workshop deals with journal publications from the editor’s perspective, while describing the nuts and the bolts of journal publications.

The course covers the importance of paper writing and publishing, the structure of a scientific paper, ways in which to prepare a research paper, conceptualizing the processes of paper submission and peer-review, dealing with paper revision and rejection, and publication ethics.

The overall aims of the workshop include to assist academic staff, researchers and postgraduate students to develop scientific writing skills with the purpose of publishing papers in high-impact journals.

The workshop boosts participants’ self-confidence to initiate and sustain quality scientific writing in journal publication.

Dr David Yoong is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya. He read his PhD at La Trobe University, his MCJ and MLing at The University of Malaya, and his BA at University Sains Malaya. His research interests include discourse analysis and research methods

Kuang Ching Hei is currently Head of the Teaching and Learning Unit, Academic Development Centre (ADeC), UM. She holds a Master of Art in English Language Teaching from Ealing College of Higher Education, London and a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the University of Malaya. She is also trained in counselling and holds an Executive Diploma in Counselling from UMCCed and is a qualified Executive Coach certified by UMCCed’s programme. She teaches on the postgraduate and undergraduate programmes in courses such as Language Acquisition, Research Methodology, Rhetorical Skills & Public Speaking and Critical Thinking. She is also a trainer focussing on mentoring and coaching workshops, classroom teaching and management, communication skills & Public Speaking, postgraduate supervision and learner diversity. She was recently absorbed as a co-PI in the SATU (Cheng Kung University of Taiwan 2013) project foucssing on Oral Cultures of the Minnan.

Professor Low Wah Yun, PhD, is the Editor-in-Chief of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health (www.aph.sagepub.com). She is also the Head, Research Management Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Prof. Low is Professor of Psychology and a Chartered Psychologist at the Faculty of Medicine. She graduated with a B.A (Hons.) from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and subsequently obtained both her M.Sc. and Ph.D (Medical Psychology) from the University of Surrey, Guildford, England. Professor Low is actively engaged in teaching, research, service and consultancy. She has published 20 books and book chapters and approximately 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, particularly in the areas of behavioral science, sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, men’s health and aging. She sits on several editorial boards of journals, and is also a reviewer for many journals. She is the co-author of the book “Writing and Publishing a Public Health Research Paper”, published by the University of Malaya Press, Kuala Lumpur, 2009.

Dr. Mohd Awang Idris, Senior Lecturer in Work Psychology, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Malaya. He had worked for several private organizations between 1996 to 2007, and hold several management positions such as Head of Marketing, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Manager, Training and Development. He joined University of Malaya in 2007.

His research interests include job stress, psychosocial safety climate, leadership, job engagement, workplace injuries and team performance. He publishes several papers in ISI-outlets publications, and also a reviewer for some well-known journals such as Journal Occupational and Organizational Psychology, International Journal of Stress Management, Cross-Cultural Management: An International Journal; and Journal Occupational Health.

Dr. Mohd Awang Idris won the Tony Winefield Thesis Prize award for the best PhD thesis in psychology for 2010-2011 from the University of South Australia, Adelaide. He is also a columnist in the “Psikologi & Masyarakat” [Psychology & Society] for the Friday edition of the daily Malay newspaper, Kosmo!

Dr. Ng Lee Luan obtained her PhD in Applied Linguistic from University of Otago, New Zealand. She teaches postgraduate courses related to research methodology and second language acquisition at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics.

Her current research interest includes computer assisted language learning, online learning, the use of computer assisted qualitative data analysis system in deciphering data in qualitative research. She is also a certified trainer for the software, NVivo.

Azirah Hashim is a Professor in the English Language Department, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics and currently Dean of the Humanities Research Cluster, University of Malaya. Prior to that, she was the Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at the same university. Her research interests include English in Malaysia and in the Region, Language and the Law, and Academic and Professional Discourse.

She is on the executive committee of the Asia Pacific Languages for Specific Purposes and Professional Communication Association and was on the executive committee of the International Association of Forensic Linguists (2009-2013). Azirah is a Fellow and Alumni of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. She currently heads the CLMV programme at the university and is coordinator of the Asia-Africa University Development Network.

Dr. Hadzantonis completed his PhD at RMIT in Melbourne Australia in Linguistic and Social anthropology.

Hadzantonis is currently engaged in multiple studies of the Linguistic and social anthropologies of various regions, with emphasis on Confucian discourses. These engagements include the studies of the linguistic anthropologies of LGBT communities, Orang Asli communities (with Geoffrey Benjamin), and Emerging vernaculars in Malaysia.

Hadzantonis is currently Senior research fellow at the University of Malaya.