Research Through Design: Qualitative Analysis to Evaluate the Usability -- Understanding Participatory Policymaking Processes: Discourse Analysis in Psychosociological Action Research -- Combined Use of Software that Supports Research and Qualitative Data Analysis: Potential Applications for Researches in Education -- Use of the Software IRAMUTEQ in Qualitative Research: an Experience Report -- Implementation of Focus Group in Health Research -- The Informal Intercultural Mediator Nurse in Obstetrics Care -- Potentialities of Atlas.ti for Data Analysis in Qualitative Research in Nursing -- Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software. Using the NVivo and Atlas.ti in the Research Projects Based on the Methodology of Grounded Theory -- Unpacking the Relationship Between Learning to Read and Mental Health: Using an Ethnographic Case Study Approach -- Reverse Logistics Companies’ Perspective: A Qualitative Analysis -- E-mentoring: a Content Analysis Design -- Occupational Therapy’s Intervention on Mental Health: Perception of Clients and Occupational Therapists About Intervention Priorities.

This book contains an edited selection of the papers accepted for presentation and discussion at the first International Symposium on Qualitative Research (ISQR2016), held in Porto, Portugal, July 12th-14th, 2016. The book and the symposium features the four main application fields Education, Health, Social Sciences and Engineering and Technology and seven main subjects: Rationale and Paradigms of Qualitative Research (theoretical studies, critical reflection about epistemological dimensions, ontological and axiological); Systematization of approaches with Qualitative Studies (literature review, integrating results, aggregation studies, meta -analysis, meta- analysis of qualitative meta- synthesis, meta- ethnography); Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research (emphasis in research processes that build on mixed methodologies but with priority to qualitative approaches); Data Analysis Types (content analysis , discourse analysis , thematic analysis , narrative analysis , etc.); Innovative processes of Qualitative Data Analysis (design analysis, articulation and triangulation of different sources of data – images, audio, video); Qualitative Research in Web Context (eResearch, virtual ethnography, interaction analysis , latent corpus on the internet, etc.); Qualitative Analysis with Support of Specific Software (usability studies, user experience, the impact of software on the quality of research.