This week's guest blogger is Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez. Luis is a social work Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Georgia and a Doctoral Minority Fellow with the Council on Social Work Education. His research focuses on the wellbeing of Latinx, LGBTQ+, and immigrant communities, with a particular attention to the experiences of people living at the … Continue reading Reflexivity in qualitative research
Month: April 2021
Call for papers: The Science and Art of Value in Healthcare: Measures, Voices and Methods
Frontiers in Public Health is a multidisciplinary open-access journal which publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research and is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians, policy makers and the public worldwide. The journal aims at overcoming current fragmentation in research and publication, promoting consistency in pursuing relevant scientific … Continue reading Call for papers: The Science and Art of Value in Healthcare: Measures, Voices and Methods
Call for proposals: Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Conference
33rd Annual Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Conference (EQRC) June 14-15, 2021 Sponsored by the University of Nevada at Las Vegas' (UNLV) College of Education, we invite scholars to participate in the conference by presenting research projects among a broad spectrum of topics. Employment of traditional ethnographic and qualitative research projects provides the common thread for … Continue reading Call for proposals: Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Conference
2021 Visual Sociology and Visual Methodology Awards: Call for nominations
May 1, 2021 is the deadline for submitting nominations for the International Visual Association's (IVSA) 2021 Rieger and Prosser Awards. Rieger Awards are for outstanding work in visual sociology (as a thesis/dissertation or as a project/paper) by graduate students. Prosser Awards are for outstanding work in visual methodologies by beginning scholars. AWARDS: Award winners for … Continue reading 2021 Visual Sociology and Visual Methodology Awards: Call for nominations
Exploring phenomenology
Much qualitative research is based on fundamental assumptions of phenomenology, even though this may not be acknowledged by researchers. Unfortunately, novice researchers sometimes assume that this means that any research study that examines human experience is “phenomenology.” Not so. There are many forms of phenomenological inquiry inspired by different philosophical strands of thought. Melissa Freeman’s … Continue reading Exploring phenomenology
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