Leadership of the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Teachers’ Work/Teacher Unions SIG is seeking submissions for a special issue of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor. The special issue theme “Teachers’ Work in Contentious Political Times” seeks manuscripts focusing on teachers’ work in P-16 education, teacher unions, or community organizing. In this special issue, we … Continue reading Call for papers: Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor

For the last several years, people all over the world have been exposed to enthusiastic prognostications of how artificial intelligence (AI) has changed and will continue to change the ways we live and work. Over the last six months, I’ve embarked on the Sisyphean task of trying to make sense of information on AI. I’ve … Continue reading AI and Qualitative Research

2024 Theme: Research Excellence that Impacts Our World Lumivero’s Research Grant for Early Career Researchers will award $20,000 USD in funding over two years to an early career researcher making a positive impact in the world with a research project that uses NVivo, Citavi, or XLSTAT, shows promise and a contribution to knowledge, and a … Continue reading Early Career Research Grant

This week's blog post is authored by Ph.D. candidate Kathryn Polley. Kathryn is a Ph.D. candidate who studies Teacher Education in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia. A former K-12 music teacher and teacher leader, Kathryn’s research interests include pre-service teachers’ and early career teachers’ sense of belonging, sense … Continue reading Action research for teacher-researchers

Do you have a deep interest in the methodological, theoretical, and ethical procedures and challenges inherent to social science research and evaluation? Do you have an interest in expanding your knowledge of qualitative research methodologies? Come learn about qualitative programs at the University of Georgia. Register:https://bit.ly/UGAQUAL2023Thursday, December 7thNoon – 1 p.m. EST learn-about-uga-qual-2023Download

Penn State is offering a series of workshops on research methods for applied linguists. Theory and Practice in Interview Research for Applied Linguists Kathryn Roulston, University of Georgia September 15, 2023 Research Methods in Instructed Second Language Acquisition Laura Gurzynski-Weiss, Indiana University September 29, 2023 Corpus Linguistics and Triangulation  Jesse Egbert, Northern Arizona University October … Continue reading Fall workshop series: Research methods for applied linguists

by Sean N. Halpin This week’s blog post is from Dr. Sean Halpin, who is a Qualitative Analyst with RTI-International, on the Genomics, Ethics, and Translational 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 Inter-rater Reliability in Qualitative Coding: Considerations for its Use

UGA QUAL LAB Speaker Series: Dr. Ginny Boss Join the UGA Qualitative Research Program for the UGA QUAL Lab Speaker Series Monday, April 24th, 12PM – 1PM Zoom link registration: https://bit.ly/UGAQL03 Presented by:  Dr. Ginny Boss, University of Georgia During this QUAL LAB, I will discuss a project I worked on titled “Co-Conspirators and Community Care: Toward … Continue reading Finding Me in We: Covid, Qualitative Inquiry, and the Necessity of Community

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I’ve been reading Pip Williams’ novel, The Dictionary of Lost Words (2022). Situated around the turn of the 20th century in Oxford, UK, Williams’ novel explores the experiences of the middle-class protagonist, Esme. Esme contributes to the development of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in a patriarchal and classist society in which … Continue reading The “f” word and qualitative inquiry