CAQDAS Networking Project

CAQDAS stands for Computer Assisted Qualitative Data AnalysiS and was coined by our Founders, Professors Nigel Fielding and Ray Lee. The CAQDAS Networking Project was established in 1994 and grew out of the first conference that brought together pioneers in the field that Fielding and Lee organised, along with Professor Nigel Gilbert. That conference resulted in an edited volume of papers by methodologists and software developers (Fielding and Lee 1991/1993), which provides an historical context to the early development of qualitative software and is therefore a seminal work in the development of CAQDAS technology and its adoption by researchers.