SAGE Open is calling for submissions to a special collection on Organizational Cybersecurity. See the full call HERE for details. The collection welcomes papers from human, technical, and process perspectives; with any theoretical lens; and applying any methodological approach.
Call for proposals: 7th Annual Conference of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology
The 7th Annual Conference of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology will be held at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA on June 7th – 9th, 2020. The CFP, along with more information about the event, can be found on our website at http://sqip.org/sqip-2020-annual-conference/ The deadline to submit proposals is January 31st, 2020. SQIP is … Continue reading Call for proposals: 7th Annual Conference of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology
Towards racial equity in education
Vajra Watson’s (2018) book, Transformative schooling: Towards racial equity in education chronicles the work of the Office of African American Male Achievement (AAMA), a unit established in the Oakland Unified School District in California in 2010. Watson, a white woman, was invited to evaluate the work of the office of AAMA, and spent five years … Continue reading Towards racial equity in education
Evidence and research in the social sciences
Much has been written in recent years concerning “evidence” and how researchers generate and use it in the social sciences – including numerous articles on “data” (Flick, 2018), the politics of evidence, and “evidence-based” research. In his book Evidence, sociologist Howard S. Becker (2017) pursues a problem that he first observed when he began his … Continue reading Evidence and research in the social sciences
For those interested in learning more about qualitative research
Applications to the following programs at the University of Georgia for Fall 2020 are now open: Online Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies Certificate program The Phd in Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methodologies For a short screencast on the programs, click HERE. Applications for the PhD program are due by January 1, 2020. Applications for the Online IQS … Continue reading For those interested in learning more about qualitative research
Academic writing month starts tomorrow!
November is Academic Writing Month: What are you going to work on? This past week I’ve been participating in a 14-Day Writing Challenge with the National Center for Faulty Development and Diversity. The idea here is to log in every day, set a timer, and start writing. Participants are encouraged to read others’ comments and … Continue reading Academic writing month starts tomorrow!
Guidance for doing archival research
Archival collections are typically considered the preserve of historians. Yet, qualitative researchers can make use of archival collections to supplement ongoing research, explore methodological issues, or conduct a secondary analysis of archived data sets. But how might one go about entering the archives? This question is addressed by the book: The Archive Project: Archival Research … Continue reading Guidance for doing archival research
More digital tools for researchers
It seems that there are always new tools for researchers to explore. Here are a few that I've looked at lately. What have you observed? What are new digital tools that you have come across that are helpful in your research? Please share these in the comment box below! Tool Service Deep Dyve This … Continue reading More digital tools for researchers
Examining the criminal justice system using qualitative methods
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve’s book, Crook County: Racism and injustice in America’s largest criminal court, examines the work of the justice system as carried out in the largest criminal court in the US, Chicago-Cook County. In five devastating chapters, the author provides story after story as evidence supporting the key idea in the book: the justice … Continue reading Examining the criminal justice system using qualitative methods
Call for nominations: AERA 2020 Outstanding Qualitative Research Book Award
For those scholars in education, please consider nominating recently published books on qualitative research to the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Qualitative Research Special Interest Group's 2020 Oustanding Qualitative Research Book award. The Qualitative Research SIG invites nominations for the Outstanding Book Award for significant contributions to methodology of qualitative educational research. The Qualitative Research … Continue reading Call for nominations: AERA 2020 Outstanding Qualitative Research Book Award