Kien Nguyen-Trung PhD

Interested in recent debates sparked by the open letter and commentary by Jowsey et al. that rejects GenAI in reflexive qualitative research? I’ve documented almost everything you need to know to follow these debates here bit.ly/3WYiQuu

Pleased to share our latest publication on Higher Education. Using #thematicanalysis, we told stories of how #internationalstudents place-make during #COVID-19 pandemic. Check it out here rdcu.be/eMg6Z

How to understand behaviour's drivers in the context of wicked problems? We propose an integrated framework, SeCOM-B model to support this. Check it out, it is Open Access

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Pleased to see my book on conquering PhD #scholarships published in Vietnam by Hong Duc publisher. This 240-page book offers a comprehensive guide to successfully apply for scholarships, ranging from searching for your sense of purpose, to developing a compelling research proposal and application.

In #qualitativeresearch, many try to quantify findings or imagine them as a single event—a moment of epiphany, a clear-cut boundary between question and answer. In reality, a conceptual leap is not a sudden moment. It’s an accumulative, iterative, flexible process. Check out this brilliant article

It’s nice to talk with My @sumernet.bsky.social about our gender equality, disability and social inclusion in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the Southeast Asia. I shared some experience we had from our project with Hanoi Association of People with Disabilities in Vietnam.

ChatGPT in thematic analysis: Can AI become a research assistant in qualitative research? - Quality & Quantity Despite an emerging body of scholarship on applying generative AI (GenAI) to qualitative data analysis, this area remains underdeveloped. This article evaluates how GenAI can support thematic analysis using a publicly available interview dataset from Lumivero. It introduces Guided AI Thematic Analysis (GAITA), an adaptation of King et al.’s (2018) Template Analysis. This framework positions researchers as a reflexive instrument and intellectual leader while thoroughly guiding GPT-4 in four stages: data familiarization; preliminary coding; template formation and finalization; and theme development. Additionally, the article proposes the ACTOR framework, a simple approach to combining different effective prompting techniques when working with GenAI for qualitative research purposes. Findings reveal GenAI’s capacity for analyzing the data, generating codes, subcodes, clusters, and themes, along with its adaptive learning and interactive assistance in organizing unstructured data and developing trustworthiness. However, this model has some key limitations in terms of its restricted context window for processing large datasets, its inconsistent outputs requiring multiple prompt attempts, the need to move across workspaces, and the lack of relevant training data for qualitative research purposes.

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New OA article by TASA member Kien Nguyen-Trung

ChatGPT in thematic analysis: Can AI become a research assistant in qualitative research?

Thrilled to share my new paper on a Guided AI #ThematicAnalysis (GAITA) approach to using #genAI in #qualitative research. I also propose ACTOR, a simple prompting framework to guide AI. Check it out link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thanks Andrew. I will have a look.

Does it enable multiple languages translation? Thanks for sharing

It amazes me how my daughter (5 years old) can capture so many details in her drawing. This was done 4 hours after the trip.

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OA article by TASA member Kiên Nguyễn et al

Vulnerabilities of people with different types of disabilities in disasters: a rapid evidence review and qualitative research

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Vulnerabilities of people with different types of disabilities in disasters: a rapid evidence review and qualitative research Despite the growth of disaster scholarship, the topic of how and why climate-related disasters and extreme weather events vary among people with different types of disabilities remains unexplored. To....

Please check out our open access paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Pleased to share that our paper on vulnerabilities of people with different types of disabilities in #disasters has been published in Disasters. This paper, using a #rapidreview and #qualitative fieldwork, is the result of a collaborative work between Monash University and DP Hanoi in Vietnam.

From Numbers to Narratives: Becoming a Qualitative Researcher in the Global South From Numbers to Narratives: Becoming a Qualitative Researcher in the Global South

Please check out my open access paper here vje.vn/index.php/jo.... The Special Issue also covers a range of different “qualitative journeys” by different scholars.

How have you navigated the ups and downs to become a #qualitative researcher?
For me, a Global South scholar, it’s meant seizing every opportunity to learn from mentors, connect with participants, read methodological literature, stay active in publishing, and write authentically.

Very happy to share that my paper on the use of ChatGPT in thematic analysis has been accepted for publication in Quality and Quantity. In this paper I propose a Guided AI Thematic Analysis (GAITA) that adapts Template Analysis for working with GenAI. #qualitative #dataanalysis #generativeAI

I love #visuals. They can demonstrate complicated relationships and abstract ideas in eye-catchy forms. I really had a great time drawing this illustration of different #thematicanalysis #qualitative approaches.

Thanks for sharing those details. It does not surprise me. In my experiment with theme development, GenAI could only generate descriptive rather interpretative themes.

Are you trying to develop themes with AI here?

Check out Gale et al. (2013) paper on Framework Method Analysis. Their paper proposes an adapted version of Framework Analysis that Ritchie and Spencer’s original approach.

Great thanks for sharing our work Christina. Appreciate it

Our paper follows recent attempts such as Morgan (2025), Friese (2025), Hayes (2025) in applying #conversational methods to develop themes, skipping coding. These attempts imply the potential of #GenAI in facilitating a #paradigm shift in approaching to #qualitative data analysis.

Pleased to share our working paper on generating #themes without #coding with #generativeAI. The paper presents an innovative six-stage approach to work with GenAI to directly construct themes and interpretation in #qualitative data analysis. Check out our paper here osf.io/preprints/os...

Sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing. I look forward to reading it

Great. Thanks for sharing Jess

(PDF) From numbers to narratives: Becoming a qualitative researcher in the Global South PDF | In this paper, I narrate my journey of becoming a qualitative researcher from the Global South. My transformation has been facilitated by five... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

This paper highlights the importance of learning from different "teachers": fieldwork #mentors, diverse #communities and marginalised groups, key #methodology methodologists and literature, writing and publishing process, and our #authentic self.

Thanks for sharing, Michael. I will read it thoroughly.

then your research can be categorised into that basic qualitative research as Merriam and Tisdell proposed. /2

Thanks for engaging with this figure, Michael. I think your question is on point since Creswell's five approaches don't include the common practice that uses interpretative qualitative approach with thematic analysis like yours. If you don't align your research with any of the five approaches../1