On October 15, New Scholars hosted a webinar featuring Stine Grodal and Henri Schildt on using AI for qualitative studies. Here is A Best Practice Guide to AI-Augmented Qualitative Research based on Stine and Henri's paper and their webinar. 1.0 Introduction: A New Frontier for Qualitative Inquiry New artificial intelligence (AI) tools are fundamentally reshaping the landscape of knowledge work, creating both significant opportunities and profound challenges for the qualitati

AI and qualitative research As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) rapidly transforms the landscape of scientific research, qualitative scholars are confronted with an unprecedented technological challenge: Can this emerging tool—powered by large language models (LLMs)—truly fulfill the humanistic task of qualitative data analysis, which is fundamentally rooted in interpretive work? In their recent publication, Nguyen and Welch (2025) offer a systematic and incisive re