Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Summer Institute in Anti-Racist and Decolonizing Research Methods, “Revolutionizing Research for Social Change,” held at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, June 24-28, 2024. The Institute is completely free! PhD students and advanced master’s students interested in pursuing careers in research are invited to learn about and … Continue reading 2024 Summer Institute in Anti-Racist and Decolonizing Research Methods
Category: Conducting qualitative research
UGA Qual Lab Speaker series
Join the UGA Qualitative Research Program for the UGA QUAL Lab Speaker Series. Title: Queer(ing) (Dis)Comfort and Vulnerability in Qualitative Research Presenter: Dr. Stephanie Anne Shelton, The University of Alabama Date: Monday, November 6th from 12PM - 1PM EST Where: Zoom Register at: https://bit.ly/UGAQL05 Qualitative scholars often design research that invites participants to share their … Continue reading UGA Qual Lab Speaker series
UGA Qual Lab Speaker Series
Title: Temporalities in/of Ethnography: Queer(ing) Time in Studying School Literacy and Language Practices Presenter: Dr. Ryan Schey, Department of Language and Literacy When: Wednesday October 11, 2023 Time: 10:00 AM-1:00 PM EST Register:https://bit.ly/UGAQL04 Abstract: Ethnographers studying oral and written oral language practices discuss time as an integral part of ethnography, such as the traditional idea … Continue reading UGA Qual Lab Speaker Series
Designing studies using walking interviews
For researchers exploring research questions to do with space, place, and people’s mobility and everyday routines, walking interviews can be a useful method. Although going along with participants during daily activities and asking them questions about activities and routines has long been part of an anthropologist’s toolkit, there has been a surge in interest and … Continue reading Designing studies using walking interviews
Tips for organizing a qualitative research project
Older researchers like I am are likely to have numerous boxes or filing cabinets filled with records from prior research projects. These boxes or file folders include printed transcripts, fieldnotes, or drafts of manuscripts writing up findings, and copies of published articles relative to the topic. For scholars in 2022, however, records are likely to … Continue reading Tips for organizing a qualitative research project
Using Photovoice in Qualitative Research
This week's screencast and blogpost are authored by Ana Soler. Ana Soler is the Chairperson of the National Association of Educational Translators and Interpreters of Spoken Languages (NAETISL: https://naetisl.org/). She completed her degree in Social Work at Georgia State University, her Master’s Degree in Public Health at Emory University, and is a Ph.D. in Special Education … Continue reading Using Photovoice in Qualitative Research
Qualitative Research Design
Uwe Flick (Freie Universität, Berlin) completes his set of handbooks on qualitative research this year with the publication of the two-volume set, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design (Flick, 2022a, 2022b). At over 1,200 pages, this volume is much larger than either of the two prior handbooks on qualitative data collection (Flick, 2018) and … Continue reading Qualitative Research Design
Undergraduate Research Teams and Collecting Qualitative Data: Some Considerations
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
Analyzing qualitative data
The NVIVO community is partnering with SAGE MethodSpace on this free webinar series showcasing the researchers in the book, Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Research: After the Interview edited by Charles F. Vanover, Paul A. Mihas, and Johnny Saldaña, SAGE Publications, 2021. These webinars are designed to help novice and experienced researchers with pragmatic ‘how-to’ strategies for all … Continue reading Analyzing qualitative data
A beginner’s guide to conducting archival research
Archives preserve records from what has gone before to ensure accountability among leaders, to record what has happened in the past, and to preserve people's cultural identities and heritage. In our book Exploring the archives: A beginner’s guide for qualitative researchers (2021), Kathleen deMarrais and I introduce qualitative researchers to archival research. We discuss why … Continue reading A beginner’s guide to conducting archival research
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