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We're delighted to announce that our popular Research Accelerator virtual conference is back for its fourth year! We have an incredible line-up of international experts this year, who will be focusing on different ways of working as a researcher, whether that’s embracing AI or exploring visual and creative methods in your qualitative research. Early-bird pricing closes 10 November!

Visit the conference website for details and to register: https://lnkd.in/gPQG-UqQ

Speaker bios: https://lnkd.in/ghyEnpBt
Session descriptions: https://lnkd.in/gSuNNiiA

There's still time to register for our 'Ask the Experts: NVivo Trainer Panel' this coming Thursday 10th November (note: this is Wednesday 9th November for those of you in the US/UK). I'm really excited to be joined by my fellow NVivo trainers Christina Silver, Anuja Cabraal and Kristi Jackson. Believe it or not, we have around 90 years combined experience with NVivo and we're really looking forward to sharing our tips and answering your questions!

Register for free at: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/pages/webinars

Don't forget that early-bird pricing for Research Accelerator 2022 closes today! Visit the conference website for further details and to register: https://www.researchaccelerator.nz/bundles/ra2022

Our popular Research Accelerator virtual conference is back and better than ever! Attend the 5 day conference or catch some of the free pre-event webinars – the event is flexible, affordable and designed to suit your research goals! Visit the conference website for details and registration: https://bit.ly/3DsB7qy.

Our annual winter webinar series is now open for registration – please spread the word with your networks, we'd love to see as many researchers there as possible!

Registration for all webinars at: https://academic-consulting.co.nz/winterwebinars

November is Academic Writing Month ! If you haven't heard about this before, there's a useful article about it over on the Citavi blog

What is #AcWriMo? | Citavi - Reference Management and Knowledge Organization Image: canva.comFor many academics, the month of November is associated with making progress on a writing goal. In this blog post, we’ll discuss why that is, how Academic Writing Month started, and why there's such a need for it.

Have you seen our new free guide? Sign up for our mailing list and we'll send you '5 Tips for a Successful NVivo Project'. There's a lot more than 5 tips in the guide – download yours now to see what's inside! https://www.academic-consulting.co.nz/landing/

Our tip for today is actually a collection of some of our favourite coding "hacks" check them out (with videos) in this blog from the Academic Consulting archives:

Lyn's Research Hacks: NVivo Coding If you’re using NVivo for data analysis, chances are that you’re spending a fair amount of time coding – here are a few NVivo shortcuts to help save you some time.

Today's tip is applicable to any , not just . Decide how you'll identify participants in file names and the data itself, and be consistent with this throughout – read our blog post for further info: https://buff.ly/3nbcBkn

Using pseudonyms – what’s in a name? Given that confidentiality and anonymity are paramount in the research work we do, pseudonyms in qualitative research are an important consideration.

Don't forget that there's "undo" functionality in NVivo – sadly there's no "redo" option though.

Always take the time to prepare your data carefully – it doesn't matter what functionality your software has, if the data you enter is rubbish your analysis will be too!

What's in a name? Naming conventions are pretty useful when it comes to – name your files and folders sensibly when you set your project up. You'll thank yourself later!