Welcome to the IQDA

The Irish Qualitative Data Archive (IQDA) is a central access point for qualitative social science data generated in or about Ireland. The archive frames the parameters and standards for archiving qualitative data within the Irish research community
 
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National & Transnational Cultural Flows & Place, Postgraduate Summer School, call for postgraduate students to participate. 
1st of July to 12th of July, 2013 at NUI Maynooth. Co-hosted by the Department of Sociology at NUI Maynooth and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. More information
 
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Postgraduate and post-doctoral researchers - planning to archive your research data?   6 things to bear in mind.
 
At this time of year, postgraduate and post-doctoral researchers are under pressure to meet application deadlines for scholarship and studentship research degree funding. With this in mind, the IQDA has put together a short document to assist students that plan to archive their research data with the completion of funding application forms. In particular, sections on informed consent, privacy and data protection, and the preparation of data for archiving are addressed. See more ...  
 
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Qualitative data from the Growing Up in Ireland project is now available.
 
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BROWSE

Browse our Data Archive to discover recent qualitative research that has been conducted in Ireland, or to add a catalogue record about your own qualitative research.

ACCESS

Access Our Data and find out about the qualitative data we are are currently archiving.

DEPOSIT

Deposit your data with the IQDA or add a record about your research to IQDA catalogue. Advice on preparing your data for archiving is available here, including advice on consent, anonymising, and the technology and formats that are best for archiving. The IQDA Best Practice Handbook in Archiving Qualitative Data is available for download here.

TEACHING QUALITATIVE METHODS

Download our teaching resources for qualitative methods. Qualitative data archives are a valuable teaching resource, whether to provide examples of topics, illustrate themes or demonstrate how qualitative research is conducted in the field. Junior researchers can learn by listening to the examples provided in qualitative archives.

COMPARE

Build comparisons between research locations, and extend your research over time or by triangulating with other data sources. Here you can find out about other qualitative data archives, and other digital archives worldwide.

STAY UP TO DATE

Our News Blog carries information about events organised by the IQDA, international qualitative conferences and networks, and the use and re-use of the data contained in our archives.
 
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Should you require quantitative social science data, please see the Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA). The  ISSDA holds an ever-increasing quantity of machine-readable data from surveys and official statistics (such as the Census) and makes them readily available to academic and non-profit researchers.
 
 

Irish Qualitative Data Archive
c/o National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), IONTAS Building,
National University of Ireland Maynooth,
Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland  
 
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Enquiries: iqda[at]nuim.ie