About

Dr. Alessio Pruneddu.

Hallo everyone and welcome to the Q-sortware website. I am Alessio Pruneddu, the person behind this website and the services offered with the Q-sortware. I completed a PhD in psychology at the University of York with a thesis about personality, change and attitude towards change. In the attempt to administer a series of questionnaires using different response formats, I conceptualised a software aiming at a smooth completion for participants and with a set of handful options for the researcher who is designing the project.
Since the initial version of the software was launched in 2010, many changes, amendments, and improvements were made until 2011, where I presented the Q-sortware in its current version at the Q-conference held in Birmingham, (Pruneddu & Zentner, 2011). At the moment, the software is used worldwide and I am proud to write that many students and professors from different countries and disciplines considered the Q-sortware a valuable option for their research. The software is free for anyone and if you go to the 'Join' page of this website, you will find out how to request an account. The intellectual property of the software belongs to the University of York.

Since October 2017, a new application is now available for professional data collection. Based on the previous experience with the Q-sortware, the Q-sorTouch aims to be an alternative for those interested in an advanced tool for data collection in social sciences. Among the advantages offered, there are the opportunity to administer Q-sort based on images and/or sounds, the randomization the stimuli included in each test/q-sort, and a new very friendly UI (User Interface) with which design procedures. Similarly to what was offered with the Q-sortware, the Q-sortouch can work with many response formats, such as multiple choice question, open questions, semantic differentials and obviously Likert scale tests, among the others. In addition to this, the Q-sortouch is available on touch screen devices, such as tablets, mobile phones and so on, therefore representing and absolute cutting edge tool for research designs at all levels.

In the next future, I plan to launch the Q-sortouch, a brand new web application for the administration of Q-sort on-line. Based on the previous experience with the Q-sortware, the Q-sortouch aims to be an alternative for those interested in an advanced tool for data collection in social sciences. Among the advantages offered, there are the opportunity to administer Q-sort based on images and/or sounds, the opportunity to randomise the stimuli included in each test/q-sort prepared and a new very friendly UI (user Interface) with which design the procedures. Similarly to what was offered with the Q-sortware, the Q-sortouch will be able to offer a number of response formats, such as multiple choice question, open questions, semantic differentials and obviously Likert scale tests, among the others. In addition to this, the Q-sortouch can work on touch screen devices, such as tablets, mobile phones and so on, therefore representing and absolute cutting edge tool for research designs at all levels.