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Christina Silver
Jun 24, 20192 min read
Pat Bazeley reviews the Five-Level QDA Method
Dr Pat Bazeley is a renowned qualitative and mixed-methods methodologist with several decades experience in using and teaching...


Christina Silver
Oct 31, 20187 min read
Mindsets matter: think about how you think about CAQDAS programs
On 17th October 2018 I had the privilege of opening the Digital Tools day at the World Conference on Qualitative Research (#WCQR2018) in...


Christina Silver
May 25, 20185 min read
Can tactics inform strategies?
Analytic strategies come before software tactics: that’s the Five-Level QDA approach. But there are times when software tactics can...


Christina Silver
Mar 22, 20184 min read
A CAQDAS horror story: when tactics drive strategies
A key principle of the Five-Level QDA(R) method is that analytic strategies drive software tactics. This ensures that software use is...


Nick Woolf
Jul 7, 20172 min read
Translation in Five-Level QDA: What's in a name? Actually, quite a lot
“Translation” is the key concept in our Five-Level QDA method, so it’s important to know what it means. The word just showed up in the...


Christina Silver
May 13, 20176 min read
No 'basic' or 'advanced' CAQDAS features
This blog post is a response to Steve Wright’s reaction to this comment I made on Twitter on April 27th 2017: “There are no basic or...


Christina Silver
Jun 2, 20163 min read
Articulating the 'bleeding obvious'
Nick emphasized in his first blog post that Five-Level QDA is not a new or different way of doing qualitative data analysis but a method...

Nick Woolf
May 19, 20163 min read
What is Five-Level QDA all about?
You may be wondering what Five-Level QDA is all about. Perhaps you’re thinking it’s a new qualitative data analysis (QDA) approach, like...
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