given the recent discussion of qualitative analysis tools this seems relevant. Ben Begin forwarded message:

From: Randy Banks <randy@essex.ac.uk> Date: 11 August 2006 13:43:58 BDT To: ASC Announcements <asc.announce@essex.ac.uk> Subject: [CONFERENCE] - ASC - Words instead of Numbers Programme - 2006-09-29 - London Reply-To: admin@asc.org.uk

************************************************************** *** an announcement from The Association for Survey Computing. *** Apologies for any cross-postings **************************************************************

Words instead of Numbers. The status of software in the Qualitative Research World. A one-day conference on Friday 29th September 2006 at Imperial College, London

The programme for the conference is now available and includes:

* Keynote Address - Malcolm Rigg; PSI

* Introducing Framework and its role in increasing quality and transparency in the analysis of qualitative data - O'Connor, Woodfield & Gerrard; NatCen

* Exploiting Digital Records: New Resource Tools for Qualitative Research in Contemporary Social Science – Crabtree et al; University of Nottingham

* CAQDAS versus Desktop Search Engines: Access without Coding - Rettie; Kingston University

* Managing Large Scale Qualitative Research, Two Case Studies - Butler & Vince; Ipsos MORI

* Toward an Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Text Analysis Methods – Peladeau; Provalis Research

* Practices, Methods and Community Tools for Sharing Qualitative Data – Corti; UK Data Archive

Full details about the confence, as well as a booking form, can be found on the ASC web site at http://www.asc.org.uk/

Potential exhibitors should contact the ASC at the address below.

Many thanks for your attention to this.

Randy Banks

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