This week’s guest blogpost is by Dr. Alisa Smith, who is a Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Smith examines the misdemeanor courts, case processing, and legal consciousness on decision-making. In this blog post, Dr. Smith discusses the benefits of developing a research team of undergraduate students to conduct large-scale … Continue reading Undergraduate Research Teams and Collecting Qualitative Data: Some Considerations
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Kathy Roulston is a professor in the Qualitative Research program in the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. She teaches qualitative research methods, and has written on qualitative interviewing.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9429-2694
Kathryn J. Roulston on ResearchGate
My books include:
Interviewing: A guide to theory and practice, see:
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/interviewing/book272521
Interactional studies of qualitative interviews. See:
https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.220
What’s new in qualitative interviewing?
The first journalistic interviews were conducted in the early part of the 19th century. By the early 1900s, researchers had taken up interviews as a method and were asking questions of people using lengthy surveys. Over the past century, interviews have become one of the most widely used research methods in social sciences research across … Continue reading What’s new in qualitative interviewing?
How many interviews are enough?
This week's guest post is from Jiyea Park, who is a doctoral candidate in the Learning, Leadership, Organization Development at the University of Georgia (UGA). Jiyea was born in South Korea and has lived in Korea, China, and the U.S. Before joining UGA, Jiyea completed her undergraduate and Master's degrees in Lifelong Education at Soongsil … Continue reading How many interviews are enough?
Engaging Patients in Patient Education Research: A Short Review of Qualitative Approaches
This week’s blog post is from Dr. Sean Halpin, who is a Senior Research Associate with Evidera, a component of Pharmaceutical Product Development, on the Patient-Centered Research team. Dr. Halpin has over a decade of experience leading socio-behavioral studies across a wide range of chronic and infectious disease areas and has published numerous journal articles … Continue reading Engaging Patients in Patient Education Research: A Short Review of Qualitative Approaches
Thinking about qualitative methodology as a career?
The Qualitative Research Program at the University of Georgia is seeking applicants for the Ph.D. program in Qualitative Evaluation and Research Methodologies to begin in Fall 2022. If you would like to learn more about the program, register to attend a virtual panel discussion among graduates from the program on February 15th, 2022. RSVP here: … Continue reading Thinking about qualitative methodology as a career?
Postcard from The Qualitative Report (TQR) 13th Annual Conference
What better way to welcome the new year with a postcard from a qualitative conference? For those of us who have visited Fort Lauderdale in sunny southern Florida, we missed traveling to an in-person conference in January. On the other hand, because the conference was virtual for the 2nd year, it enabled over 1,000 eager … Continue reading Postcard from The Qualitative Report (TQR) 13th Annual Conference
Drawing on popular culture to teach qualitative research methods
As we end another year and prepare for a new one, many people will likely be revising their course syllabi for teaching qualitative research methods in 2022. If you need a bit of inspiration, here are some ideas from a range of scholars on how to incorporate popular media in teaching qualitative research. Enjoy! Comics … Continue reading Drawing on popular culture to teach qualitative research methods
Poetic inquiry
This week's post and screencast is authored by Ayça Fackler. Ayça Fackler is a Ph.D. candidate in Science Education in the Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia, expecting to graduate in 2022. Her research interests include scientific models and modeling, multimodality, emergent bi/multilingual learners in science education, and history and philosophy … Continue reading Poetic inquiry
Academic writing month
November is Academic Writing Month, which now exists in several different forms, including: National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo, involves pledging to write 50,000 words in 30 days. NaPoWriMo ("30 poems in 30 days") AcWritMo (hashtag #acwrimo), an informal network of academic writers. And if those alternatives don't appeal to you, Helen Sword is inviting writers to join … Continue reading Academic writing month
Assistant Professor of Qualitative Research
The Qualitative Research Program in the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy at the University of Georgia invites applications for the position of tenure track Assistant Professor with expertise in qualitative research methodologies to begin in August 2022. The Qualitative Research Program offers a Graduate Certificate in Interdisciplinary Studies (IQS) (https://online.uga.edu/degrees-certificates/graduate-certificate-interdisciplinary-qualitative-studies), which is offered … Continue reading Assistant Professor of Qualitative Research
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