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Whether in product and software development, urban planning, participatory construction projects, or organizational development, qualitative research is always helpful when it comes to understanding people’s needs, motives, and contexts of meaning. This is why qualitative approaches are also used in numerous disciplines beyond the social sciences. There are a wide variety of data collection and analysis methods as well as research approaches, of which interviews, focus groups, qualitative content analysis, ethnography and grounded theory are only the best known.

The workshop “Data Literacy: Basic Knowledge of Qualitative Research (QR)” is aimed at KIT students of all disciplines who want to get to know this specific way of producing data and knowledge and who want to acquire first basic knowledge in the field of qualitative research.

The course deals with central epistemological basics, various methods of data collection and analysis as well as quality criteria, research ethics and research data management. Theoretical impulses are combined with sample studies and practical exercises.

After the course

•  you will know the methodological basics of QR;
• have an overview of application areas and central methods of QR;
• you will know the quality criteria of qualitative research;
• you will have e a first impression of data from qualitative research and its specifics;
• know basic aspects of good scientific practice and research data management as well as ethical research conduct.

Work Expenditure:

1 ECTS: preparation for the workshop (material will be provided by mail 2 weeks in advance, 5 h working time), active participation in the workshop, independent work on an exercise after the workshop.

Lecturer:

Alexa Maria Kunz: The data-loving sociologist is deputy managing director at the House of Competence (HoC) and heads the MethodenLABOR there. With her knowledge of research, data collection and analysis, she provides optimal support for students in the field of qualitative research.