Guest post by Deana Kotiga, Freelance Cultural Researcher and Strategist AI DISCALIMER: A note before you begin: this article, which argues that large language models cannot do what human ethnographers do, was written with the help of one. The structure was workshopped with an LLM. Some sections were drafted collaboratively, then pulled apart and rebuilt. […]
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by Christina Silver, Director. CAQDAS Networking Project I was invited to give the keynote at the MAXDAYS 2026 Europe virtual conference that took place on the 17th March. I was grateful for the opportunity to talk about the relationship between methodology and technology, which is something I’ve spent much of my career thinking about. This […]
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By Sam Ladner, PhD Independent Researcher and Foresight Strategist Sam Ladner is a sociologist and student of the future of work. After having spent years working in the technology sector, she is now an independent researcher and consultant. She is currently authoring a book called Practical Foresight which will be published by Routledge. Connect with […]
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by Christina Silver, Director. CAQDAS Networking Project (also posted on the QDAS blog) I got a bunch of interesting comments on my LinkedIn post asking who’d be interested in what I think about AI in qualitative research, and why, so here goes…. There are 6 sections. I could actually write a post the length of […]
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by Sarah L Bulloch. Teaching Fellow at the CAQDAS Networking Project At the CAQDAS Networking Project we have worked with lots of different teams of researchers over the years, supporting them with how they can operationalise their objectives and research questions using computer assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDAS) packages. This blog post highlights some of […]
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Guest post by Kai Dröge, Institute for Social Research Frankfurt, Germany, and University for Applied Science, Lucerne, Switzerland. Together with Colin Curtain, he develops QualCoder, an open-source QDA software with included AI support. Guest posts express the views of guest contributors and do not necessarily represent the views of the CAQDAS Networking Project or constitute […]
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