13-14th Sept. | Qualitative Methods in Urban Mobility Research

Instructor

Hannah Hook (Ghent University, Department of Geography)

Location

Room 2.2

Learning objectives

  1. Introduce doctoral researchers to the basic techniques of qualitative methods and provide knowledge on how to perform reproducible research.
  2. Provide doctoral researchers with the skills to design research and data collection protocols.
  3. Explain how technological transitions, such as the invention of GenAI, can affect qualitative research, and the implications for biases and ethics.

Schedule Day 1 (13 Sept.)

9:30 Lecture: Introduction to Qualitative Research
Workshop: Designing a Qualitative Study Using Case-Based Methods
13:00 Lunch
13:45 Lecture: Practical Guidelines for Analyzing Textual Data
Workshop: Developing Data Collection Protocols
Presentation: Research Plans and Protocols

Schedule Day 2 (14 Sept.)

9:30 Lecture: Integrating AI into Qualitative Research
Workshop: Manual coding of textual data
12:45 Lunch
13:30 Workshop: Coding with ChatGPT:
Presentation: Demonstrating insights from qualitative research