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:: Qualitative Thinking
We offer a wide array of options for qualitative research design to help you in any phase your project might be in. Long experience on the field guarantee our services.
Art and science as well as rigour and creativity meets to create the indispensable tools needed to enhance your experience of conducting interpretative inquiry.
Qualitative data analysis, modelling strategies and skills integration linked to qualitative software are our areas of expertise. We offer training, support and consultancy on using:
Our goal is to bring you the best support to enjoy qualitative research as a collective effort for presenting clearly your models and findings as well as for developing narrative and hermeneutics strategies.
Methodological rigour and knowledge on qualitative software routines are merged in our consultancy to enhance the researcher,s creativity and facilitate the visualization of complex relations.
We have been trained by the qualitative software developers and have been in permanent contact with them regarding the newest versions of each program. So our knowldege is updated regularly since we have participated in the development and evolution of qualitative software new tools.
:: The Art of Text Analysis and Visual Sociology
With a strong, academic and professional relationship with the international scientific community witch is involved in the interpretative traditions of qualitative inquiry, we are able to provide the best training and consultancy on both basic and advanced skills related to qualitative computing and qualitative thinking.
We offer different service options:
consultancy in any phase of your project
individualized sessions
training for research teams
particular seminars by topics
skills integration
Our expertise on qualitative text analysis together with our innovative approaches for visual data analysis, in micro and macro levels, are at the reach of your hands provided by professionals who are inspired by interpretative traditions associated to qualitative analysis.
:: International presence:
Qualitative Computing Consultancy has trained and/or taught qualitative software to researchers at:
Australia: QSR International
Brazil: Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora and Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina.
Colombia: Universidad del Cauca and Universidad de Antioquia.
Chile: Universidad Cardenal Raúl Silva Henríquez and Universidad de Chile.
Spain: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Universidad de Granada, Instituto de Empresa and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Azcapotzalco, Xochimilco e Iztapalapa); Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (Unidad Ajusco and others); El Colegio de Sonora; El Colegio de México; Universidad Iberoamericana, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes; Universidad de Yucatán; Universidad La Salle, Universidad de Guadalajara and Universidad de Guanajuato, among others.
Paraguay: Centro Paraguayo de Estudios de Población.
Puerto Rico: Universidad de Puerto Rico.
US: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ResearchTalk Inc. and University of Houston.
Collaboration with software developers. Being a beta tester is good but Qualitative Computing Consultancy has also prepared tutorials, data and project examples for Spanish versions of software programs as:
MAXqda 
ATLAS.ti 
NVivo 
QDAMiner 
Participation on Editorial Boards. Some active members of Qualitative Computing Consultancy belong to qualitative research on line resources Editorial Boards:
FQS Qualitative Sociology Review Qualitative Research in Psychology
Some recent workshops and/or preseantations in seminars or congress:
GABEK CAQDAS 2007 QI 2009 SURREY 2008 QI 2010
Selected contributions related to methodology. They are available to be downloaded:
Estudios Sociológicos Casa del Tiempo Sociologías
Some conversations:
Kenneth Gergen Janice Morse Juliet Corbin
References and/or links to other associations Qualitative Computing Consultancy is related to:
Taos Institute Comparación CEPAL
Institutional link:
Qualitative Inquiry Group, UAMI, México QIG
Follow us at: https://twitter.com/qualcomputing
:: Forthcoming:
Seminar “Qualitative Computing: Diverse Worlds and Research Practices” in Istanbul, Turkey. February 24-26, 2011 http://www.qualitativecomputing2011.net/
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