QSR International (the developers of NVivo) and the International Institute of Qualitative Methodology (IIQM) are offering a research grant of US$25,000 over two years. To be eligible to apply you: * must have been awarded your PhD in 2011 or later; * must have an academic appointment at an institution of higher education; * must … Continue reading Research grant for early career scholars
Author: qualpage
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
Call for abstracts: Visual sociology
IV ISA Forum of Sociology "Challenges of the 21st Century" Porto Alegre, Brazil. July 14-18, 2020 The International Sociology Association (ISA) and Research Committee 57: "VISUAL SOCIOLOGY" invite abstracts (300 words) for presentations at the IV ISA Forum of Sociology, to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. July 14-18, 2020. Sessions: Borders, Boundaries, Walls, and … Continue reading Call for abstracts: Visual sociology
Call for chapter abstracts: Autoethnography and self-study
AUTOETHNOGRAPHY AND SELF-STUDY AS EDUCATION RESEARCH METHODS: CONTINUING DEBATES AND CONTEMPORARY APPLICATIONS Edited by Deborah L. Mulligan*, Emilio A. Anteliz# and Patrick Alan Danaher*,+,^ *University of Southern Queensland, Australia #Central University of Venezuela, Venezuela +Central Queensland University, Australia ^University of Helsinki, Finland FOCUS AND RATIONALE There is recurring and increasing scholarly interest in the ethical … Continue reading Call for chapter abstracts: Autoethnography and self-study
Using archival data to explore methodological issues
Qualitative researchers typically generate and collect new data sets to explore their research questions. Methodologists, in contrast, quite often conduct a secondary analysis of their own data sets to examine methodological issues that have emerged during their research studies. As well as using their own data sets to examine research methods, qualitative researchers can also … Continue reading Using archival data to explore methodological issues
Resources for new professors
Summer vacations are over, and in the U.S. it is back-to-school time -- with children in classrooms, professors preparing their classes, and college students starting the new semester. This week is my first week of class for the new semester. This is also the time when numerous assistant professors are beginning new positions. Below is … Continue reading Resources for new professors
The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics
With all the handbooks being published these days, it’s hard to keep up. Since I teach a course on research ethics, I’ve recently taken delivery of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics (Iphofen & Tolich, 2018). I have yet to read this text in full, but in this blogpost, I’ll provide an overview of … Continue reading The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics
Translating academic writing into trade books
Academic writers typically orient their writing to readers like themselves: other academics used to the jargon associated with any particular discipline. Yet some scholars manage to traverse the divide between the ivory tower and the general public and produce readable, enjoyable, and educational explanations of their topics of interest in the form of trade books. … Continue reading Translating academic writing into trade books
A writer’s guide to getting trim
Helen Sword’s (2007) book The writer’s diet: A guide to fit prose was published for an international audience in 2016. Sword (2016) uses healthy nutrition and fitness as a metaphor to help academic writers improve their prose. Rather than produce heart attack-inducing writing, Sword surveys academics’ language use with the aim of encouraging “fit prose.” … Continue reading A writer’s guide to getting trim
Call for papers: Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference
Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference 21-23 APRIL 2020 National Wine Centre, Adelaide, Australia Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) is the world’s biggest & longest-standing conference on doctoral education. Held every two years in Adelaide, South Australia, QPR brings together educational researchers, policymakers, university leaders, research students & research degree supervisors for the purpose of better understanding the processes, … Continue reading Call for papers: Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference
Call for papers: Journal of Praxis in Higher Education
Journal of Praxis in Higher Education (JPHE) is a new international, open access, online journal dedicated to high-quality research on praxis within, and related to, teaching, learning and researching in higher education. It is now calling for papers for its first issue to be published November 1, 2019. Praxis is a contested term that, in many contexts, is … Continue reading Call for papers: Journal of Praxis in Higher Education
