QUIC Briefing and Working Papers
Here we list Briefing and Working Papers written by staff as part of the QUIC project. These are all freely available to download as pdf documents. Material provided in some Working Papers is also avaliable as web-based resources, as indicated.
If you wish to cite any of the below papers please follow the instructions below:
Working Papers are pre-publication versions of academic articles, book chapters, or reviews. Papers posted on this site are in progress, under submission, or in press and forthcoming elsewhere. Working Papers are offered on this site by the author, in the interests of scholarship. Working Papers are not refereed.
Papers may be downloaded from this site by individuals, for their own use, subject to the ordinary rules governing fair use of professional scholarship and should be cited as follows:
Author (year). Title. Version (if applicable). CAQDAS QUIC Working Papers retrieved from http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sociology/research/researchcentres/caqdas/resources/workingpapers/ insert date.
This list will be added to frequently. We are currently working on other working papers including information on using multi-media data in CAQDAS packages and reviews of other CAQDAS packages including Transana, QDA Miner, HyperRESEARCH, MiMeG and Qualrus.
Working Papers
| Reference | Title | Authors | Format |
| QWP#001 | Choosing a CAQDAS Package | A Lewins & C Silver | |
| QWP#002 | A Lewins & C Silver | ||
| QWP#003 | MAXqda 2007 Review | C Silver & A Lewins | |
| QWP#004 | NVivo 8 Review | C Silver & A Lewins | |
| QWP#005 | DRS Review | C Silver & A Lewins | |
| QWP#006 | Transana Review | C Silver & A Lewins | |
| QWP#007 | MiMeG Review | C Silver & A Lewins | |
| QWP#008 | QDA Miner Review | C Silver & A Lewins | |
| QWP#009 | Qualrus Review | C Silver & A Lewins | |
| QWP#010 | HyperRESEARCH Review | A Lewins & C Silver | |
| QWP#011 | G Hughes, C Silver & A Lewins | ||
| QWP#012 | Using and preparing multi media data using CAQDAS | C Rivers | |
| QWP#013 | Analysing Open-Ended Survey Question Data in CAQDAS Packages: ATLAS.ti (v5 & v6) | G Hughes | |
| QWP#014 | Analysing Open-Ended Survey Question Data in CAQDAS Packages: MAXQDA | G Hughes | |
| QWP#015 | Analysing Open-Ended Survey Question Data in CAQDAS Packages: NVivo (v7 & v8) | G Hughes | |
| QWP#016 | Analysing Open-Ended Survey Question Data in CAQDAS Packages: QDA Miner (v3.2) | G Hughes |
Briefing Papers
| Reference | Title | Authors | Format |
| BWP#001 | Research Design for longitudinal case study project | A Lewins & C Silver | |
| BWP#002 | Using Access Grid Technology for the Provision of Software Training | C Silver & C Rivers | |
Feedback
We always welcome feedback concerning the relevance and usefulness of our resources. Indeed, many of the materials we provide are the direct result of repeated requests from students and qualitative researchers. So if you have downloaded any of the materials above please email us with your comments.

