2025 Virtual Conference
Workshops ONLINE
June 16-17, 2025
If you registered for the SPSA's annual conference in January 2025, you automatically have access to workshops taking place during the online follow-up conference. If you did not attend the January session, you can register for the virtual summer meeting through the SPSA's website, or contact spsa.conference@spsa.net.
If you have not already done so, upload your SPSA conference registration confirmation to your KiND Profile and you will then be able to select your workshop(s).
As part of this Summer’s Virtual Conference we are also offering several free one-on-one consultations with two of our experts. Spaces are limited, so make sure to book your session now!
Managing Your Academic Journey: Confronting Everyday Challenges
with
Dr. Diana L. Gustafson
June 16th, 2025
12:00pm - 3:30pm (EDT)
In this workshop, Dr. Gustafson will walk you through some of the everyday challenges graduate students encounter in their academic journey. Her goal is to create a virtual space where you can reflect on the many factors shaping your experience. That means strategies for managing factors that are within your control and contextualizing those factors that may derail you.
Dr. Gustafson will offer practical tools that support productivity and enhance writing practices, strategies such as nurturing the student-advisor relationship, preparing for when things go sideways (because they will) and changing your relationship with publication rejection. She will invite you to shift your mindset when dealing with internal challenges, such as crises of confidence, creative anxiety (AKA writer’s block) and safeguarding your well-being. Because your time is valuable, the conversation will focus on issues participants consider most important.
Approaches and Tools for Qualitative Data Coding
with
Dr. Lea Sgier
June 17th, 2025
10:00am - 1:50pm (EDT)
This workshop aims to provide participants with some basic tools for approaching their qualitative data analysis (and/or understanding how published analyses have come about).
The first half is an introduction to the logic of coding and will take the participants through the key steps of the coding process (pre-analysis, construction of a coding scheme, coding and categorising, pattern-seeking and interpretation, writing-up). We will also discuss different ways how this process is typically implemented (formalised vs less formalised ; inductive vs deductive, etc.), as well as different layers of this process, moving from rather descriptive to more analytical levels.
The second part of the workshop consists in a short introduction to software-assisted coding, with the example of MaxQDA. We will look at the basic functions of MaxQDA and what the software can (and cannot) assist us with. We will then very briefly discuss other available softwares (such as Nvivo, Atlas.ti or Dedoose), as well as the use of AI-tools (that are starting to be included in some softwares) for qualitative data analysis.
This workshop is designed for participants who are beginning to analyze data and want to learn how to get started.