In Practice
How Researchers Use QualiDialog
Five examples of QualiDialog used in academic research, evaluation and applied qualitative analysis.
Different questions, materials and settings. In each case, QualiDialog supports the analytical process while the researcher determines what the material means.
Academic research · LMU Munich
Accelerating research with multi-modal analysis
At LMU Munich, QualiDialog helps researchers revisit existing material, pursue emerging questions and move between overview and detail. The researcher remains responsible for interpretation throughout.
“QualiDialog works directly with the audio, which is amazing for the students.”
Prof. Dr. Anja Ballis
Reflectionand nuance
Public health research · UC San Diego
Finding nuance in sensitive research material—and more time to reflect
Prof. Samantha Hurst uses QualiDialog to retrieve relevant passages across interviews and examine language in context. This reduces repetitive searching while leaving space for anthropological interpretation.
“It has freed up much more time for me to be reflective.”
Prof. Samantha Hurst
Evaluation · Misereor
A transparent, expert-led analysis across 23 evaluations
Dr Susanne Friese used QualiDialog to analyse 23 evaluation summaries for Misereor’s 2025 Annual Evaluation Report. The work combined cross-project pattern recognition with systematic checking against the source material.
“AI supported structuring and pattern recognition. Interpretation and assessment remained with the evaluator.”
Methodological principle
PhD research · Community-based research
Making sense of interviews, focus groups and reflective notes
For Darian’s PhD research on fatherhood and social change in South Africa, QualiDialog supported the gradual development of themes while preserving links to participants’ accounts.
“It does not replace the human mind, it supports it.”
Darian S., PhD researcher
Applied research · Leap Research
Moving from 1,000 user reviews to focused product priorities
T. S. Lim used QualiDialog to examine 1,000 recent reviews of a mobile-banking app. The analysis distinguished recurring reliability problems from smaller, fragmented areas of positive feedback.
“We move past the ‘2.5-star’ number and into a data-driven strategy for product excellence.”
T. S. Lim, Managing Partner, Leap Research
Your research, your interpretation