


Support for doctoral level students and research professionals at all levels of experience and industry backgrounds.
Karen I. Conger, PhD
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Qualitative Research Consultant
and NVivo Software Specialist
Making Sense of Your Data
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Karen I. Conger, Ph.D.
Qualitative Research Consultant, NVivo Specialist
Providing Remote Support Services for Qualitative Researchers
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Welcome to my site! Scholarly and meaningful research work requires integrity, honor, objectivity, respect and confidentiality. Whether you're a professional researcher, faculty member, or a doctoral candidate in the final phases of completing your dissertation, I provide quality support tailored to your needs, and I am honored to work with you in your research studies! Please browse the services below and then contact me to discuss your specific needs. I can help you!​
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Qualitative Services - Coding/Consultation
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Support Services for All Researchers using Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Methodologies
Advanced level researchers are empowered by my remote support and resources to successfully complete studies utilizing mixed methods and qualitative methodologies. My clientele include professional research directors at corporate and university levels; individual university faculty conducting their own research; and graduate-level doctoral candidates utilizing qualitative and mixed-method methodologies in their dissertation studies.
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Accelerated Support to Meet Deadlines
By customizing each research project either one-on-one or as a part of research team(s), I am able to support and accelerate the analytical part of each study while meeting your important deadlines.
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Specialized Services for Graduate-Level Students - Doctoral Candidates
My research expertise and services move graduate level students (one-on-one) forward to complete your dissertations or those of you at that pivotal point known as A.B.D. (all but dissertation). For those students who feel stuck, struck, or sunk with that designation, I can help replace those three letters with completed academic credentials (e.g., Ph.D.).
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Scholarly Research - Meeting and Exceeding Expectations
Many professors, former clients, and graduate committee chairs and members, refer colleagues and students to me, because they trust me to provide the scholarly support that is expected at advanced levels of research. I only work with like-minded individuals - it is a mutual agreement of understanding, honor, and respect to meet or exceed expectations.
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Experience
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Qualitative Research Consultant, NVivo Specialist, Adjunct Faculty - Doctorate Program
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Coding/consultation projects (remote)
NVivo training workshops and consultations (remote and on-site)
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1998-Current - Independent Consultant
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2023-2024 - Owner/Consultant, QDA Sense LLC
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1998-2022 - Owner/Consultant, DataSense LLC (Concurrent, USA distributor/reseller for NVivo Software, QSR International, AU; and Adjunct Faculty, Walden University - see below.)
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Adjunct Faculty (Remote) - Walden University, Minneapolis, MN.
(Concurrent with DataSense LLC - see above)
Adjunct faculty (remote) - Teacher, committee member of various qualitative graduate-level dissertation committees in the doctorate education programs at The Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership at Walden University, Minneapolis, MN.​
My doctorate is from Walden University. This remote adjunct faculty position was done concurrently for a few years while also fulfilling my consulting responsibilities in my research consulting companies and independent work. The university work at the institution from which I graduated with my doctorate was valuable to me; of course, I understood scholarly work from a personal and student perspective, but this experience provided the institutional 'insider' perspective. As a result, I regularly receive referrals from many professors and committee members from many universities for their students and they state that my work enhances the students' understanding; it does not overtake it! In many cases, I am told the reason some students are able to finish is because I am a motivator! I tend to do that because I believe in life-long education and I am always enrolled in something, and I learn so much from this work and my clientele!
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If you can use some help whether or not you need motivating, please contact me. It is so simple! Plan ahead though. I cannot accept last minute projects. Those are the only clients I have had to turn away and I really do not like to do that, but I am already working with wonderful people and helping them. So, when you are writing that proposal and have a good idea of what you are doing and know you will need help with making sense out of that data, let me know. I will then give you a quote, pencil you in upon your approval, and adjust as needed if you stay in touch. My penciled in clients become permanent ink at some point! Contact me!​​​​​​
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Random Quotes and Simple Truths Just For The Fun of It:
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"Everything is qualitative."
- A physicist
"If they'll cheat, they'll lie."
- High school counselor - after observing a student cheating on a math test and then denying it.
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"Then don't."
- Teenager - Response to adult not wanting to start an optional personal care routine again after a long illness.
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​More to come just for the simple truths they convey! All qualitative, for sure! Send me your favorites and I'll post them!​​
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