Cal State San Bernardino will be the site of the three-day institute on Qualitative Research with ATLAS.ti, a qualitative data analysis platform, beginning today, Wednesday, June 22.
CSUSB faculty and graduate students will attend the sessions, which will be led by Ricardo Contreras, the director of ATLAS.ti Training and Partnership Development Division. The institute represents a partnership between the Office of Academic Research and the Information and Technology Services division.
The purpose of the institute is to assist scholars with their qualitative data analysis projects.
“The Summer Institute on ATLAS.ti represents a unique opportunity to provide intensive training to the faculty of California State University, San Bernardino,” Contreras said. “The ATLAS.ti software is used by researchers worldwide as they engage in the qualitative analysis of their research data.
“Since the late 1980s, ATLAS.ti has been a leader in the field of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis, providing researchers with a workbench that facilitates the exploration of unstructured or semi-structured data, the identification of meanings, and the visualization of relationships,” Contreras said. “I am excited for having the opportunity to teach in this Summer Institute and I look forward to a long-term collaboration with the faculty and students at CSUSB.”
The institute was organized by Mihaela Popescu, a CSUSB associate professor of communication studies and the faculty associate with Academic Technologies and Innovation at the university. CSUSB faculty and students will be able to participate in a second qualitative research institute in September.
Contreras is an applied anthropologist with an undergraduate degree from the Universidad de Chile and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of South Florida. He is an international consultant on computer-assisted qualitative data analysis, with a particular emphasis on ATLAS.ti.
He provides services to ATLAS.ti Scientific Software Development GmbH, based in Berlin, Germany, and directs the company’s training division as well as its office in the United States. Contreras’ research interests includes community health and migration, and he is the co-principal investigator on the National Science Foundation-funded project Managed Migration and the Value of Labor, which involves ethnographic field work in communities of Mexico and Guatemala.
Visit the ATLAS.ti website for information on the company.
For more information on the Summer Institute on ATLAS.ti, contact Miheala Popescu at popescum@csusb.edu.