It’s no surprise, then, that programs for storing and analysing data have become so popular. But when you have a data set of over 200,000 words the prospect of doing a traditional pen-and-paper qualitative analysis quickly becomes unappealing. Spending the day lining up my coloured highlighters and lighting up my data set sounds pretty close to a perfect day at ‘work’. I soon created a twitter account that meant I could network quickly and easily with other scholars with similar interests, get quick-fire updates on conferences I couldn’t attend and live-tweet about those I could.Ĭomputer technology has also revolutionised the way I approach qualitative analysis. I could then access the quick notes I made on my phone or tablet on my PC later. Evernote allowed me to make notes when I had sudden inspiration on the go: on the train, in the park or on the school run. When I started working on my PhD in 2013, having not really written academically for 10 years, I was delighted to find that programs like Mendeley and EndNote had made child’s play of the once time-consuming and painstaking task of referencing. Advances in computer technology have made researchers’ lives an awful lot easier.
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