Dr. Muhammad Ismail is the founder and principal consultant at QDA Specialist, Pakistan. QDA Specialist is the third best consulting agency across the globe in providing qualitative research and data analysis related services. In addition, academically, Dr. Ismail is attached with Iqra National University Peshawar (Pakistan) as an Assistant Professor in finance and qualitative research. He received his PhD degree from IMSciences (Pakistan) and Griffith Business School (Australia) under HEC Pakistan's split degree program. In the region, Dr. Ismail is the only certified professional trainer in computer assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) packages, bibliometric analysis, biblioshiny, data visualization, and references and citations management. In addition, he is a certified MAXQDA professional trainer, Quirkos certified trainer, certified ATLAS.ti professional trainer, certified trainer with QDA Miner, certified trainer with HyperRESEARCH, and Mendeley advisor in the region. While working in the field, Dr. Ismail worked with Afghan Commissionerate for Afghan Refugees (Pakistan), UASAID (Pakistan), CPPR (Pakistan), Election Commission (Pakistan), Glow Consulting (Pakistan), Riphah International University (Islamabad), Marymount University (USA), and Istanbul Sabahattin University (Turkey). Methodologically, he is keenly interested in interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA), qualitative content analysis, thematic, sentiment and semiotic analysis, constant comparative analysis, thematic analysis, disclosure analysis, and index development.
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Dr. Shafiullah Jan associated with QDA Specialist as an independent consultant and trainer in discourse analysis. Currently, he is an associate professor of Islamic banking and finance and research chair at Center for Excellence in Islamic Finance, Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar Pakistan. Dr. Jan obtained his doctorate from Durham University and Master from the University of Glasgow, UK. Dr. Jan is famous for his expertise in analyzing qualitative data using ATLAS.ti, MAXQDA, and NVivo.
Mr. Abdul Basit is the independent consultant and trainer at QDA Specialist. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in Islamic Business and Finance from the Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan. Mr. Basit is the expert of ethnography, thematic analysis, and content analysis using ATLAS.ti and Quirkos. He trained hundred of individuals and organizations in qualitative data analysis using CAQDAS with special focus on the applications of ATLAS.ti and Quirkos.
Mr. Mansoor Khan is the independent consultant and trainer at QDA Specialist. Mr. Mansoor is the expert of grounded theory, narrative research, and case study research designs. He published his research work in different international methodological journals. Currently, he is the doctoral candidate at the Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan. Mr. Mansoor hold very rich expertise in ATLAS.ti and in Dedoose.
I have attended few modules, which includes atlasti and mendeley . I am very satisfied with the content of traning as well as methodology adopted by a trainer. I would definitely recommend trainer for professional training
Dr Khwaja Aftab Qadir Kan , Assistant Professor at University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Muzaffarabad. PakistanIt's my absolute pleasure to recommend Mr. Muhammad Ismail for MAXQDA and Quirkos training. I learned alot from his advanced level session in qualitative data analysis through computer assist data analysis softwares. Adorable and appreciated the training contents and his way of training.
Ms. Wan Rosman Abdullah , Phd Scholar at University of Malaya, MalaysiaI myself know Mr Ismail as one of the best trainer in qualitative data analysis softwares especially in Quirkos, Atlas.ti, and MAXQDA. I attended his training and found him an excellent trainer. I would recommend QDA Specilist for the aspirant research students and faculty.
Rahman Ullah Khan , Phd SchoolarThe Quirkos training we received is of high significance not just for my PhD research but for my overall academic progress as well. I found your training very interesting and informative. It was only in this training that I found the simplest and most easily accessible software not just for my QDA but also for my literature review papers. You have magnitudes of knowledge with reference to research and QDA and you must keep on spreading this knowledge for the benefit of this field and the researchers altogether. Thank you very much Ismail for bringing up this training to us!
Bakhtmina Zia , PhD Research Scholar