As a lecturer I really appreciated how Lyn made us all feel like a group on a journey together during the webinar, even though we couldn't see and hear each other. She did a great job of navigating a group that had a range of NVivo experience, and a range of expectations. I liked every part of the experience - Andrew on the message system; getting to 'put up my hand'; just learning about how to participate in a webinar was great - it was seriously good fun! I really liked that it was quick, snappy, and focussed on some clever stuff I was still trying to work out myself.

When I booked [the online training course] I wondered if it would be value for money, and it definitely is. You can waste so much time and effort without knowing those tips and tricks. I taught myself NVivo with a book from the library but for the more advanced features it’s better to be shown tips by an expert. It helps that you are a researcher who can really vouch for the value of certain software features.

Undertaking a part time PhD can be a very isolating experience but making contact with Academic Consulting for one to one NVivo support was a turning point for me. I had reached a point with my research where I didn’t know where to turn with my data analysis. In a very few emails, I had a date and time set up to meet with Lyn who was entirely flexible about timing, despite the fact that we were in different time zones. Her experience as a researcher and educator together with her confident expertise with NVivo made for a fun, motivating and useful session.

Thanks so much for the BYO session today. We really enjoyed your supportive teaching style, and ability to 'let go' when we needed to learn ourselves. We are very appreciative of what you did, and the time you gave to us. We all feel much more confident now to pick up the pace on using NVivo and will continue to learn as we go.

I was a newbie to statistical analysis but gained enough knowledge from the session to begin my data analysis. The accompanying booklet you handed out has been invaluable!! It was an informative, well organised, and non-stressful learning workshop which I will be highly recommending to other postgrad students.

When analysing my doctoral data on how the intersections of age, gender, ethnicity and class influence career longevity, I approached Lyn for advice. Intersectionality is notoriously difficult to operationalise but with Lyn’s assistance a coding method was designed. Without Lyn’s creativity and expertise this would not have been possible. The methodology developed from this study has been written up and published in Work, Employment and Society and Lyn has continued to provide developmental support in successive research projects.