Integrating AI into Qualitative Analysis World: Methodological Implications

November 18, 2025 | 11 am - 12:15 pm (MT)

Hybrid Seminar: Tory 1-61 &

AI is now a potential feature of every stage of qualitative research activity. What does this mean for how we make design decisions, frame analysis, navigate ethics, or even describe what we do?

In this session we will together watch a short webinar, Integrating AI into the Qualitative Analysis World, by Dr. Christina Silver - an expert in computer-assisted qualitative data analysis. Then following the video, Dr. Silver and Dr. Maria Finnsdottir from the UA Digital Research Service will have a conversation about what it means to be and stay “methodologically-grounded” in the context of AI.

Dr. Christina Silver (Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey) is a global leader in the teaching of methodologically-grounded use of qualitative software known as Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS). Co-developer of the Five-Level QDA method, and Co-founder of Qualitative Data Analysis Services (QDAS), she is widely recognized for her breadth and depth of knowledge of the CAQDAS field.

Dr. María Sigríður Finnsdóttir is the Humanities & Social Sciences Specialist with Digital Research Services at the University of Alberta. She is also the chair of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s national humanities and social sciences team. Prior to this position with the U of A, María held a postdoctoral fellowship on the Borders in Globalization project at the University of Victoria. María holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto, awarded in 2024. Her research interests are in political communication, gendered representation, far-right and populist politics, and computational social science.

~The second iiQM Ways of Knowing event of 2025 will be held in partnership with the TRSI Hub Methods Seminar series.

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