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Back from the Advanced Semiotics Course

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Update from London, having just completed the MRS's Advanced Semiotics course, run by Malcolm Evans.
The course was a great refresher and reminder that we can do so much with this really useful discipline.  Semiotics gives us the conceptual tools and language to help us analyse how our culture influences and shapes people's behaviour - including predicting future behaviour.

The outcome for the client is a cultural map which defines the 'now' and the 'what might be'.
Gill Erault also demonstrated the semiotics of language, equipping us with tools for analysing all forms of business communication.

Watch this space for further developments of our approach to semiotic research in Australia, or contact me on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 19:35
 

Qual analysis training

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Sue Bell and Lynne Freeman delivered a one-day introductory course on qualitative analysis at the AMSRS Winter School in Sydney on July 31st 2009.

At the Advanced Qual Analysis course in Melbourne in April,  I shared my  "3 stages, 4 rules, 4 principles and 4 challenges" model of analysis.

I am continuing to work on the content of these courses: the revised introductory courses, will cover at the least some aspects of coding, including automated coding, and the three analytical skills:  deduction, induction and abduction. The new more advanced course will cover models of thinking, and discourse analysis.

Last Updated on Sunday, 04 October 2009 21:50
 

Investment Risk workshop

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Yesterday, I took part in an industry workshop hosted by the Financial Services Working Group (FSWG) on how to communicate investment risk.  I was able to share some of the findings from our recent project for FSWG on superannuation and managed investment PDSs.
 

Back from Summer School

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Presenting at the qual analysis workshop at the AMSRS Summer School confirmed my belief that qual analysis is a hot topic in research

  • The term 'analysis' covers a broad range of activities during a qual research project, and is not necessarily a distinct stage as it is in quant. 
Last Updated on Thursday, 12 March 2009 09:27 Read more...