Methodological innovations in computational support : Geo-referencing & CAQDAS

Dates

Start date: 1 September 2008
End date: 15 September 2011

Summary

The geo-referencing  project will apply and evaluate CAQDAS tools that offer GIS-type functionality, via geo-referencing a crime risk assessment methodology which explores the social environmental risk arising from crime/disorder. Geo-referencing qualitative software will enable users to add a spatial dimension to qualitative data analysis.

Currently users of GIS and of CAQDAS do not much intersect, yet the gains in being able to code, annotate and analytically manipulate visual representations of physical space with CAQDAS functionality are attractive. Using environmental scan methodology developed to support police/community crime audits, this stream will evaluate the affordances of GIS-type CAQDAS functionality and develop an exemplar study for the TCB component of the node's work.

Outputs and Guidance

For outputs created under QUIC's work on developments in how geographical data can be integrated with other forms of qualitative data, please see the materials within the Integrating Geo-Data pages.  This material provides support materials to analyse audio and transcript data generated from mobile interviews in relation to corresponding location data collected through GPS technology.  We also explore the linking of photographs and sketch maps within the analysis.  

Researchers:   Jane Fielding, Nigel Fielding, Graham Hughes, Christina Silver