This course aims to provide participants with the strategic understanding and applied skills in planning, conducting, and analyzing, reporting findings from qualitative research. At the end of the course, participants will be able to plan, conduct, and critically assess the quality of the qualitative data gathered during their data collection process. Participants will also learn how to use NVivo 12 in Qualitative Data Analysis.

Course Objectives:

• By the end of this program, participants should be able to:
  Understand the fundamentals of qualitative research
• Understand qualitative data collection and analysis methods
• Set up a project in NVivo and explore the function of NVivo
• Create, import and work with codes and nodes in NVivo
• Undertake deductive and inductive qualitative data coding using NVivo
• Manage all project materials conveniently in one project file.
• Deliver quality outputs backed by a transparent discovery and analysis process
• Justify decision making with sound findings and evidence-based recommendations
• Revisit data easily, build up the big picture perspective
• Write a qualitative research report