NVivo for Literature Reviews

Session duration: 150 mins
Prerequisites: NVivo Quick Start 1, 2 and 3 plus Introducing Cases and Classifications and Asking Questions in NVivo (or equivalent knowledge)

Session Link: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/nvivo-lit-rev

Reviewing the literature is an important part of the research process. This session will cover NVivo’s literature review functionality including importing and coding literature, running queries on published material, and working with bibliographic data in conjunction with your NVivo project. We’ll also provide an example literature review project you can explore as part of the training.

Reference Management Made Easy

Session duration: 64 mins
Prerequisites: None

Session Link: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/rms

Reference Management Software (RMS) can save significant time throughout the research process, but many researchers actively avoid it or do not use it to its maximum potential. In this session we’ll provide an overview of some of the commonly used RMS (EndNote, Zotero, RefWorks, Mendeley and Citavi) and discuss the pros and cons of each. We’ll also cover why these applications are a good choice for your research, and discuss best practices to ensure you make the most of the RMS you choose. Lastly, we’ll demonstrate EndNote and Zotero so that you can see this type of software in action.

Introduction to EndNote

Session duration: Duration TBC
Prerequisites: None

Session Link: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/endnote

EndNote is reference management software that will assist you in managing your reference information and help to quickly create in-text citations and reference lists. This session will introduce some of the key functions of EndNote including creating an EndNote library and adding references, organising and managing your references, and inserting citations into your Microsoft Word documents to automatically create a reference list.

Introduction to Zotero

Session duration: Duration TBC
Prerequisites: None

Session Link: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/zotero

Zotero is a free citation manager that makes it easy to save reference information and enables you to create customised bibliographies in standard citation styles, including APA, Chicago and MLA. This session will introduce some of the key functions of Zotero including adding references to your Zotero library, organising and managing your references, creating a bibliography, and using the Microsoft Word plug-in to easily insert citations from Zotero into your documents.

Developing Qualitative Models and Diagrams

Session duration: 63 mins
Prerequisites: A basic understanding of qualitative research and data analysis

Session Link: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/qualitative-models

If a picture paints a thousand words, models and diagrams are a pretty handy technique to use when you’re faced with thousands of words in a qualitative project! In this session we’ll cover why visualisations might be useful for your qualitative research and discuss some ideas for creating a range of visualisations. We’ll also look at software that might be useful such as Word, PowerPoint, Canva and XMind.

Time-Saving Tips for Microsoft Word

Session duration: 44 mins
Pre-requisites: Basic familiarity with Microsoft Word

Session Link: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/courses/take/word-time-saving

This session covers ten features of Word that we can’t live without – you’ll wish you learned them years ago! One of the problems with Microsoft Word is that we’re often self-taught users, and therefore don’t know what we don’t know. The features introduced in this webinar will not only save you time, but they will also streamline the writing process and make document preparation considerably easier.