NVivo

NVivo

Watch all NVivo Series video lectures.

Although none of your NVivo work will be assessed until you submit your whole project, you need to be working in it constantly and developing your project iteratively between NVivo and your Research Proposal throughout the whole term.

There is no particular order of build required, and much of the work will be iterative, with cyclical returns to different stages as you progress, the order you should (loosely) be building your project is as follows:

  1. Decide your research topic and choose a name (that may change)
  2. Create an NVivo Project and give it your Research Project name (that may change)
  3. Create a Research Journal and a Research Log (or a joint Research Log & Journal) andkeep continually up-to-date with multiple entries per week
  4. Create a folder structure (which might change and rearrange as your project develops) for the management of your project
  5. Import critical literature which you have identified as valuable to the building of your research project’s definition, literature review, introduction, and other needs
    1. Update Research Log & Journal
  6. Import other data that will support your project, including images/graphics, datasets (if appropriate), social media, websites, videos or audio files
    1. Update Research Log & Journal (ad infinitum, each step of the way)
  7. Identify patterns and themes in your literature (and data, if available), using coding procedures
  8. Classify nodes and cases using classification, attributes and values
  9. Identify relationship types and relationships (both natural and abstract) as they become evident
  10. Run various queries at different stages of project progression to support identification of themes; analyse, and interrogate data
  11. Save various queries results as nodes or sets as appropriate to your project’s needs
  12. Use some of the visualisation methods (mind maps, concept maps, project maps, graphs and charts, cluster analyses, etc) as appropriate both for further exploration and analysis and for synthesis of data
  13. Ensure that your Research Log & Journal have been
    1. kept constantly up-to-date
    2. with every entry time-and-date stamped
    3. logging your actions and tracking your progress
    4. articulating your thinking process and decisions
    5. recording the changing shape of your research project and how the work you are doing in NVivo supports and inter-relates with the development of your Research Proposal (and prepares you to conduct your actual Research Project).
  14. Rename your NVivo file for submission. Required format (for marking purposes):