About the workshop

This hands-on workshop introduces importing and coding of literature review materials and key tools that are helpful when reviewing a selection of literature.

Topics covered include:

• Introducing NVivo and setting up a project
• Working with your information
• Identifying themes, topics, and ideas and collecting data to support them
• Using tools such as text search query, matrix coding query, and Framework Matrix.

Attendees of this workshop will learn how to to set up a literature review in NVivo, organize their content, and begin to identify themes, topics, and ideas. A working knowledge of NVivo is required—please see requirements below. 

 Requirements

• Before the workshop, please download and install NVivo 14 for Mac. You can download NVivo 14 and access the license key with your SFU computing ID by using the self-serve download link here. If you have any questions, please email us at nvivo-rc@sfu.ca.
• Participants need to be familiar with NVivo. If you are new to NVivo, please attend one of the introductory NVivo workshops in the Research Commons or watch one of our workshop recordings before attending this workshop.
• Participants should also have some familiarity with citation management software (Zotero, Mendeley, Refworks, EndNote, etc). Zotero will be used during this workshop.