The conference and workshops ran successfully last week.

The papers from the conference will be added to the Conference Series pages and the Author Index updated. This section of the site will then disappear.

Look out for news of the next conference.

The revised programme is now available with the session abstracts.

A range of pre-conference workshops for both beginners and more advanced users are available from Monday 11 to the morning of Wednesday 13 September. See the Workshops page for more details.

Monday and Tuesday – 11-12 September 2006
Two Day Introduction to NVIVO 7 – Kristi Jackson

Monday 11 September 2006
NVIVO Masterclass – Silvana di Gregorio (with Pat Bazeley and Linda Gilbert assisting)

Tuesday 12 September 2006 AM
Mixed Methods - Pat Bazeley

Tuesday 12 September 2006 PM
“Writing it Up”: strategies and standards for writing your NVivo project – Lyn Richards

Wednesday 13 September 2006 AM
Assessment Innovations Using NVivo 7 – Dan Kaczynski

Wednesday 13 September 2006 AM
Moving Up from N6/NVIVO 2 to NVIVO 7 – Christina Silver and Clare Tagg

The following keynote sessions are planned for the conference - see the Keynote Sessions page for more details

Are we there yet? - Growing maturity in qualitative tools and methods
Chris Thorn
Director, Technical Services, Winconsin Center for Education Research


Multiple Perspectives : Our journey with CAQDAS
Ann Lewins & Christina Silver
Research Fellows, CAQDAS Networking Project, University of Surrey


Many pathways, one package: using NVivo for different methodological purposes
Pat Bazeley
Research Support Pty. Limited


Farewell to the Lone Ranger? On the trend to Big and Team research (with software, of course), and the future of 'qualitative'
Lyn Richards
Founder of QSR

Contributions are encouraged from any discipline and from students, teachers and researchers. Conference sessions, workshops and round table discussions will cover a wide range of topics related to issues of learning software, ways of teaching it and supervising projects, and strategies for research in many methods and disciplines.

See the Call for Papers page for more details.

Send abstracts of up to 600 words by email attachment to c.silver@surrey.ac.uk by the deadline of 1 July 2006.


Conference enquiries by email to strategies.conference@durham.ac.uk

QSR will be present at the conference. If you have a question (or a suggestion) for them this is your opportunity to ask. Use the Questions for QSR page to send in your question. The collected questions will then be grouped and summarised to get the maximum value from the time available for QSR's answers.

The booking form is now available on Durham University's Online Conference Registration site.

Submitting a paper or session proposal

Contributions are encouraged from any discipline and from students, teachers and researchers. Conference sessions, workshops and round table discussions will cover a wide range of topics related to issues of learning software, ways of teaching it and supervising projects, and strategies for research in many methods and disciplines.

See the Call for Papers page for more details.

Send abstracts of up to 600 words by email attachment to c.silver@surrey.ac.uk

Conference enquiries by email to strategies.conference@durham.ac.uk

See the Fees page for details of the fees and accomodation costs.

See the Overview page for details of:

Who should attend

What can you contribute

Conference sessions including this year workshop sessions for both starting and advanced researchers

What you will get from attending

The next conference in the Strategies in Qualitative Research series will be held at the University of Durham, UK 13-15 September 2006.

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