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NVivo 15 training — Beginners

A single, progressive programme built entirely around your own research project. No detached theory: every operation in the software answers a concrete analytical question.

“Clicking is not thinking.” The software is a means, not an end.

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Ten hours, shaped to your project

Four to five sessions of two to two and a half hours, one-on-one or in a small group of up to eight. Sessions are spaced one to two weeks apart so you can work on your own corpus in between.

Session 1 · 2 h

Diagnosis and fundamentals

Understanding your research question and your corpus
Clarifying your analytical objectives
The NVivo interface: project, sources, nodes, memos
Importing your first sources — documents, transcripts, archives

Session 2 · 2–2.5 h

First codes and structure

Coding together: moving from your data to codes
Inductive vs deductive approaches — and hybrid designs
Building a code tree that fits your question
Organizing memos and analytical annotations
Your first independent coding between sessions

Session 3 · 2–2.5 h

Coding and calibration

Feedback on your own coding, and adjustments
Refining the tree: edge cases, overlaps
Staying systematic — the same approach throughout
Exploring your coded corpus step by step

Session 4 · 2–2.5 h

Analysis and output

Queries and targeted searches in your project
Analysis matrices: crossing dimensions, cases, subgroups
Extracting and synthesizing passages for your analysis
Moving from code to analytical interpretation
Post-training plan and support

A frequent question

“My library already runs a free NVivo workshop”

It does, and it is worth attending. University libraries — UQAM among them — offer an introduction to NVivo to their graduate students, and I always recommend starting there when it is available: it costs nothing and it demystifies the interface.

But it is a two- or three-hour session, for a large group, on sample data. Which is exactly why students come to me afterwards: they have seen the buttons and still cannot code their own corpus. What the format cannot give — because no short session can — is the ten hours spread over several weeks, working on your material, with someone reviewing your coding decisions between sessions.

So the two are not in competition. Take the library workshop for the interface; come to me for the analysis.

Resources provided

·A personalized NVivo 15 getting-started guide

·Sample code trees — deductive, inductive, hybrid

·Templates for documenting your analytical process

·A glossary of qualitative and software terms

·Post-training access: two support emails included

What you will be able to do

·Manage an NVivo project from setup to analysis

·Build a code tree appropriate to your question

·Code systematically, and document how you did it

·Extract and synthesize the analytically relevant passages

·Carry out a first qualitative analysis and interpret it

·Ask the right questions for what comes next — calibration, modelling, writing

Optional add-ons

Option A

NVivo resource blog

Access to 15–20 video and text tutorials built from real cases: creating and organizing a first project, importing and preparing sources, resolving difficult coding cases, extracting and synthesizing, troubleshooting common errors.

Flat fee · unlimited access

Option B

Guided coding

I code 30–50% of your corpus following the tree we build together. It gives you a working base and a calibration point for your own coding.

Hourly rate · hours depend on corpus size

Option C

Inter-rater calibration and methodological report

For teams: I coordinate coding in pairs or trios, run an inter-coder agreement test (Cohen’s kappa) and produce a formal methodological report.

Flat fee by team size — 2 to 4 coders

Pricing

Two regimes — institutional and student — both degressive per person as the group grows. The per-participant price appears on your quote.

One-on-oneFull rate

Small group · 2–3Reduced per-person rate

Medium group · 4–6Further reduced

Large group · 7–8Lowest per-person rate

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Who it is for

·Graduate students — master’s and doctoral

·Researchers and clinicians new to qualitative methods

·Research teams moving to computer-assisted coding

·Interdisciplinary teams starting a qualitative project

Prerequisites

·No prior knowledge of NVivo required

·Being engaged in a qualitative research project, or defining one

·Having access to NVivo 15 during the training

·A stable internet connection — sessions run by videoconference