A born teacher, sharp-minded and warm, with a great sense of humour and a boundless passion for research. Generous and warm — the kind of presence that made a whole francophone research community feel less alone with their data.
This site lives at Didier Dupont’s address
For twenty years, Didier Dupont was one of the reference NVivo trainers in the French-speaking world: training, consulting and tutoring; content analysis and qualitative or mixed methods; starting and supervising research projects. Our two names have appeared together on his site since his death in 2024.
We were friends for more than thirty years and worked together on several projects and training programmes. A sociologist and trainer, I took over after his death in September 2024. I chose to keep his name as the address: didierdupont.com remains the house, and this site is how I live in it.
Researcher · Methodologist · Qualitative analysis expert
Training and coaching for qualitative research, from fieldwork to analysis.
NVivo or open-source tools, one-on-one or with your whole team. Training and methodological support for researchers, graduate students and labs — across Europe, Canada and the wider French-speaking world.
Organizations I work with
Universities, labs, public institutions and organizations I collaborate with or have collaborated with.
Europe, Quebec, West Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
Four ways to work together
Each offer states its objectives, audience, length and price.
Software training
NVivo from beginner level to mixed methods, and Libre QDA — the open-source tools — as a full analysis workflow in its own right.
See the levels → 02Training workshops on one-on-one interviews & focus groups
Designing the guide, conducting the interview, facilitating a group, preparing the corpus for analysis. Bilingual tools included.
See the framework → 03Coaching
Research teams, thesis supervision, or a single session to unblock an analysis. Ten-hour packages, then blocks of hours as needed.
See the packages → 04For institutions
Turnkey workshops for cohorts of graduate students, in modules of two to three hours, designed with your team.
Request a quote →Method before tool
Clicking is not thinking
Software does not do the analysis. A tidy coding tree can say nothing; a fully coded corpus can lead nowhere. The tool records one thing only: the reasoning you put into it — and it makes that reasoning visible, or not.
That reasoning is what my training works on, whatever the tool. I stand for an expertise that puts software in the service of methodology, not the other way round — and I teach beyond the tool: qualitative research itself, and the pitfalls people fall into without noticing.
of fieldwork in qualitative research
qualitative interviews conducted, in health sociology
Europe, Quebec, West Africa, Indian Ocean, Pacific, Central America — remote sessions set to your clock
What participants say
“I finally understood how to structure my coding tree. Two days that saved me six months of my dissertation.”
“Rémi trained the whole team and set up our double-coding protocol. We finally work the same way.”
“A real teacher: precise, never full of jargon. Our graduate students ask for the workshop again every year.”
Not sure which option fits?
Twenty minutes on the phone is usually enough to frame what you need. It is free and there is no commitment.