If you’ve spent any time in the world of qualitative research, you know it is gloriously, wonderfully messy. You’re usually swimming in a sea of interview transcripts, half-annotated PDFs, and those "aha!" moments scribbled on sticky notes that inevitably fall behind your desk. For a long time, it felt like our quantitative colleagues had all the flashy tools while we were left with highlighters and hope. That’s exactly why I’m so excited about the 4th edition of Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo.

Interviews with this year's winners of Sage's 10-year-impact award, Elo Satu and Helvi Kyngäs.

Learn how inductive and deductive styles of reasoning are used to interpret qualitative research findings.

Situational analysis invites researchers to explore relationships and patterns in the data by creating visual maps as part of the analytic process. Co-authors of the book on this analytic method presented a webinar - view it here.

Qualitative data analysis varies by methodology. Learn about approaches for phenomenological studies through this collection of open access articles.

Learn about qualitative data analysis approaches for narrative and diary research in these open access articles.

Ethnography involves the production of highly detailed accounts of how people in a social setting lead their lives, based on systematic and long-term observation of, and discussion with, those within the setting.

Qualitative data analysis varies by methodology. Discover diverse ways to analyze data for grounded theory studies in these open access articles.

Qualitative data analysis varies by methodology. Learn about approaches for action research in these open access articles.

While reflexivity is a concept quite familiar to qualitative researchers, the idea of ‘technological reflexivity’ may be less so. Find information about October 2023 events and articles.

How can you study digital culture and activism? Watch this interview with Dr. Lyndon Wray.

Look at the choices of video methods made by authors of four research articles.

This collection of open-access articles includes qualitative examples of analysis strategies to use with multimedia video data.

How do we understand and interpret visual or video data? See these open-access articles for ideas and examples.

Find a collection of open-access articles about analyzing and interpreting photos generated by participants using photovoice mmethods.

How do you analyze data in photovoice studies? Jean M. Breny, Shannon L. McMorrow offer an introduction.

The baby crying next door. Chaotic street life that permeates the apartment. Music. The tone of voices in the interview recording. Whether intentional or not, sometimes important data can be heard. How do we analyze and interpret aural data? These open-access articles offer some examples.

Learn what to do when you are faced with next steps after coding qualitative data.

How do you ensure that your analytic strategy fits the qualitative methodology and methods selected for the study? Watch this recorded presentation and learn from the explanations offered by Dr. Linda Bloomberg and Dr. Janet Boberg.

Qualitative data analysis can only get you so far - then you need to make sense of what you have found. Find open-access examples and guidance in this curated collection of articles.