Inspiration user case study: "I use Inspiration to prevent overwhelm!"

Stephanie Fincham-Campbell, who is completing a PhD at King’s College London, was introduced to Inspiration through the DSA a year ago and says it helps her to organise and compartmentalise information and prevent overwhelm.

Stephanie is studying addictions and exploring social networks among people with alcohol dependency and complex needs so she needed a solution to getting overwhelmed. Now, thanks to the helpful live and on-demand webinars, she uses Inspiration to its fullest to review the mountains of course literature and better understand her subject.

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“Inspiration is quite intuitive. You can quite easily just create a basic mind map, but I recently attended an online webinar on the upgrade to Inspiration 11, which really helped me learn about all the different functions. So, I didn't realise beforehand that you can flip the mind map to an outline and then see things in more detail. You can export it to Word, you can export it to a presentation too. So, I guess there was more functionality that I've learned about through the webinar, and that has been really useful.”

Stephanie has also used Inspiration to help her with her qualitative analysis; she says she “uses it to try to conceptualise her findings and identify the different themes and work out what are the different topics and how they link together.”

For Stephanie, the main benefit of using Inspiration is being able to create mind maps and being able to work visually. She likes being able to use colour to highlight different aspects of what she is working on, as well as collapse and expand different sections of work to focus on specific topics one at a time. She says “having the top-level headings to work with in the Outline view makes things so much easier.”