Boost your qualitative data analysis (NVivo)

NVivo is a powerful tool for organizing and structuring your material for qualitative and mixed methods analysis. Learn how to code and retrieve in NVivo and get an introduction to useful NVivo functionalities.

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Learning outcomes

NVivo is designed to help you organize, analyze, and gain insight into unstructured data such as interviews and open surveys, and allows you to explore respondents' answers across details you register about the respondents.

After attending the course you will:

  • Understand NVivo's user interface and concepts
  • Be familiar with central functions and how to use these
  • Know how to import and structure source material
  • Be able to code and classify (e.g. tag content and register details about informants), annotate (write in-text notes), and retrieve material
  • Know how to visualize coded material

Registration

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Practical information

Please bring your computer with either NVivo for Windows or the application Omnissa Horizon (VMware) for UiO Programkiosk (all UiO Mac users) downloaded and installed. Test that it works before the course. Please see the course preparation page for how to install the software and import files.

Be sure to complete the entire preparation process well in advance of the course. If you need assistance with any of it, you can ask us, the local IT manager at your unit, or UiO's central IT Help at  it-help@uio.no. 

Working methods

Demonstration with practical examples and exercises. Instruction in English, but we can also answer questions in Norwegian. 

Target group

PhD candidates at University of Oslo

Teachers

Anne Sæbø, PhD and colleagues from the Digital Scholarship Centre / University Library.

Questions about NVivo? Ask the NVivo team at the library.

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Published Nov. 1, 2024 8:42 AM - Last modified Feb. 26, 2026 8:48 AM