MIT x Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute: AI and Qualitative Research

​Discover how researchers at MIT are using AI to analyse interviews, focus groups, and open-ended survey data faster and more rigorously, and how you can adapt the same workflows, software tools, prompts, and ethics checks in your own projects.

In this session, you’ll see real examples of how MIT studies use large language models for coding, thematic analysis, and narrative building, and you’ll learn simple, repeatable ways to plug similar steps into your current or next study.

Whether you’re a graduate student, honours student, academic, supervisor, or research support professional, you’ll leave with clearer ideas about when AI truly saves you weeks of work and when it undermines quality.