By the end of the PhD, all NWSSDTP-funded students are expected to have undertaken training in qualitative methods to a level that would allow students to understand and interpret a range of phenomenological or textual data. Competency should be developed in the methods appropriate to the student’s specific discipline.

Typically, students specialising in qualitative methods would be expected to be able to:

• Use Analytic methods for offline and online textual, aural and visual data
• Engage in participatory, multi modal and arts-based research approaches
• Historical, comparative and archival methods
• Undertake discourse, content, or narrative analysis
• Competency in analysis of qualitative data, using a computer assisted data analysis package, such as NVivo, MAXQDA, or Atlas-ti.

NWSSDTP Training Catalogue Under Development