About Us

Contact Us

IQDA c/o NIRSA,
IONTAS Building,
National University of Ireland Maynooth,
Maynooth,
Co. Kildare,
Ireland
email: iqda[at]nuim.ie

This site is managed by: Ruth Geraghty
Email: ruth.geraghty[at]nuim.ie
Telephone: +353 (1) 708 6171
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About the Irish Qualitative Data Archive (IQDA)

The Irish Qualitative Data Archive (IQDA) is a central access point for qualitative social science data generated in or about Ireland. The archive contains qualitative datasets that include interviews, pictures and other non-numerical material. It also frames the parameters and standards for archiving such data within the Irish research community.

This national programme for archiving qualitative data is a valuable tool for both the research community and the public record. The archive provides online access to all new qualitative data generated within the Irish Social Science Platform, and to selected existing data. The IQDA has established protocols to ensure that newly generated qualitative data are documented and stored in ways that facilitate sharing and re-use through online access. This will help to promote high standards of data collection and management.

The archive is also a valuable resource for teaching, especially in research methods. The IQDA is building on existing archiving projects being undertaken by NIRSA at NUIM both relating to photographs (NIRSA photo archive and the Ned Cassidy photo archive, the latter in conjunction the Irish Architectural Archive (IAA) and NUIM library).
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Irish Qualitative Data Archive Management Team

Dr. Aileen O'Carroll
Manager and Research Associate
For information about the IQDA please contact Dr. Aileen O'Carroll at
email: aileen.ocarroll[at]nuim.ie
phone: 00 353 1708 3304

Prof. Rob Kitchin
Director of NIRSA
email: rob.kitchin[at]nuim.ie

Dr. Jane Gray
Programme Leader
email: Jane.gray[at]nuim.ie

Dr. Mary Gilmartin
Research Associate (Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth)
email: Mary.Gilmartin[at]nuim.ie

Dr. Adam Winstanley
Research Associate (Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth)
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Irish Qualitative Data Archive Advisory Board

Dr. Libby Bishop
Senior Research Archivist (Timescapses and Qualidata)

Dr. Robert Miller
Deputy Director of ARK (ARK Qualitative Archives and Queens University Belfast)

Dr. Arja Kuula
Finnish Social Science Data Archive/University of Tampere, Finland

Dr. Paul Lewis
IT Advisor (National Centre for Geocomputation and the Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth)
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IQDA Projects

Family Rhythms
Dr. Jane Gray, Principal Investigator. Email: Jane.Gray[at]nuim.ie
Dr. David Ralph, Post Doctoral Researcher. Email: David.Ralph[at]nuim.ie
Ms. Ruth Geraghty, Research Assistant. Email: ruth.geraghty[at]nuim.ie

RACcER: Re-use and Archiving of Complex Community-Based Evaluation Research (2009 - 2010)
Hazel O'Byrne, Research Assistant
Julius Komolafe, Research Assistant

More information about our projects

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Irish Qualitative Data Archive Interns

2010: Niall Gilmartin (Summer Intern, RACcER Project)
2010: Linda O'Keeffe (Summer Intern Sociology Department, NUI Maynooth)
2009: Keith Dooley (Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth)
2008: Rebekah Burke (Summer Intern, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth)
2008: Isoken Ekonorue (Summer Intern, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth)
2008: Nicola Dunne (Summer Intern, Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth)
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