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Tuesday, May 19, 2026 When AI Misses the Point: The Car Wash Challenge

A simple car-wash prompt reveals why AI can sound helpful while missing the actual goal. In this episode, we explore what this means for AI literacy, ...

Tuesday, December 23, 2025 Traveling at the Speed of Our Souls with AI

Tom and Lisa discuss my response to a call for chapters on "AI-free research", a new Routledge volume championing slow, handmade scholarship...

Thursday, June 12, 2025 GenAI - To Use or Not to Use

In this episode, Lisa and Tom take on a series of objections and concerns that Dr. Susanne Friese has heard repeatedly over the past month in conversa...

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 Human & AI: Orchestrating Meaning in Qualitative Data

In this episode, Lisa and Tom discuss my article: Conversational Analysis with AI - CA to the Power of AI: Rethinking Coding in Qualitative Analysis (...

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 Life without Coding in Qualitative Analysis: Dream or illusion?

Is coding still essential in qualitative research—or can generative AI offer a smarter way forward? In this episode, Dr. Susanne Friese takes you on a...

Tuesday, December 31, 2024 Fireside Chat: Looking back at 2024. Live with Dr Susanne Friese

Join us for a special live edition of the AI-in-Qualitative-Research podcast, where René van der Valk and I reflect on a transformative year in qualit...

Tuesday, December 24, 2024 AI and the Future of Qualitiative Research

This podcast is based an article - yet to be published on the QualAI blog of the CAQDAS networking project. The title of the blog will be: Embracing t...

Sunday, December 15, 2024 Q & A: Levering AI Responsibly

This podcast discusses a range of questions asked by researchers attending a webinar on "Ethically Leveringy AI in Qualitative Research". The question...

Thursday, November 28, 2024 Qualitative Research Community in Crisis

In this episode, our AI hosts dive into a heated email exchange that unfolded after the announcement of QInsights, our AI-powered app for qualitative...

Friday, November 22, 2024 The Great Unlearning

This episode is based on a conversation between Sidi Lemine, CEO of Jade Kite, and Dr Susanne Friese, written up by Sidi with the title "The Great Unl...

Sunday, November 10, 2024 AI and Human Bias: Looking into the mirror

oin hosts Lisa and Tom as they delve into Dr. Susanne Friese’s thought-provoking blog on the potential for bias in AI systems used for qualitative re...

Thursday, October 31, 2024 Ethical AI in Qualitative Data Analysis: A Collaborative Approach

In this episode, we challenge the notion of AI as a one-click solution for automating qualitative analysis, and instead, advocate for its use as an in...