Call for proposals: 2025 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative

Proposal submissions for the 2025 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (online, February 28-March 2, 2025) are now invited. The Symposium will provide scholars and practitioners of all experience levels an opportunity to present their autoethnographic and personal narrative projects and to participate in dialogue and sociability with scholars from a variety of disciplines. For … Continue reading Call for proposals: 2025 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative

Call for abstracts: 9th Biennial Postgraduate Supervision Conference

Where: Stellenbosch, South Africa When: 25-28 March, 2025 Conference theme: ‘Postgraduate Supervision as Relational’ The last few decades have seen a ‘relational turn’ across the social sciences with an emphasis on knowledge and research as relational processes. Here one focus is on the interaction among stakeholders as they generate knowledge together. Of increasing importance are … Continue reading Call for abstracts: 9th Biennial Postgraduate Supervision Conference

Early Career Research Grant

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

Call for papers: Qualitative Psychology

Researchers are invited to submit a paper to Qualitative Psychology for a special issue on discursive psychology. This journal is a publication of The Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (a section of APA Division 5). Discursive psychology (DP) is an established field of research within psychology (for overviews, see Tileaga & Stokoe, 2016; Wiggins, … Continue reading Call for papers: Qualitative Psychology

Action research for teacher-researchers

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

Culturally disruptive research: Troubling the culture of science in qualitative methodologies

Join the UGA Qualitative Research Program for the UGA QUAL Lab Speaker Series: Culturally disruptive research: Troubling the culture of science in qualitative methodologies presented by Dr. Lorien Jordan on Wednesday April 3rd from 12PM - 1PM. In this talk, Lorien confronts cultural responsivity as a method that can lure researchers into justifying their work … Continue reading Culturally disruptive research: Troubling the culture of science in qualitative methodologies

Discovering Black existentialism: A qualitative journey

Join us for the UGA Qual Lab Speaker series to learn from Dr. E. Anthony Muhammad. His invited talk is entitled "Discovering Black Existentialism: A Qualitative Journey." Monday, February 12, 2024 12:00-1:00 PM EST (US and Canada) To register, click HERE Discovering Black Existentialism: A Qualitative Journey Black Existentialism is a philosophical tradition encompassing diverse … Continue reading Discovering Black existentialism: A qualitative journey

A new resource for teaching qualitative research

With a new semester, many of us are revising our courses, and looking for new teaching ideas. Published by Routledge, The Handbook of Teaching Qualitative and Mixed Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructors, edited by Alissa Ruth, Amber Wutich, and H. Russell Bernard provides a rich array of resources for instructors of research methods. … Continue reading A new resource for teaching qualitative research

Designing qualitative studies

I’m delighted to share the new book that my co-authors and I have just published. Qualitative research design and methods: An introduction (deMarrais et al., 2024) is addressed to novice researchers who are designing and conducting a first qualitative research study. The book is organized in three parts. Part 1 encompasses getting started with theory … Continue reading Designing qualitative studies