About the author(s)

Hello, I am Dr. Colin Curtain and I am a lecturer from Australia at the University of Tasmania. I have many interests including clinical pharmacy, computer programming, research, statistics and clinical decision support. I completed a PhD evaluating computerised clinical decision support in 2014. When doing my PhD I used R as the statistics program of choice. This is where my interest in qualitative data analysis and the use of RQDA came from, which ultimately led to this project. I am currently teaching in post-graduate clinical pharmacy and supervising Masters and PhD research. Google Scholar Publications

Originally when doing my PhD I analysed qualitative survey data via thematic analysis using RQDA. After some installation difficulties with RQDA, I thought this could be reproduced in Python. I thought I would share QualCoder in the hope that it may help others. I generally work with Linux Ubuntu, and Windows. I work on the programming for this in my spare time, as a hobby.

If you use QualCoder and publish your results, I would really appreciate it if you can let me know.

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Since version 3.6 Dr Kai Dröge has been heavily involved with Qualcoder development, particularly with artificial intelligence features and more

Dr. rer. soc. Kai Dröge, University for Applied Science, Lucerne, Switzerland and Institute for Social Research Frankfurt, Germany. Kai is an experienced researcher and teacher of qualitative methods. His research interests are wide-ranging and include the sociology of emotions and intimate relationships, digital life and new media, and questions of economic and labor sociology. Recently, he has focused on the methodological challenges and opportunities of integrating AI into qualitative research. He is also the creator of noScribe, a popular open-source transcription tool aimed especially at qualitative interviews.