• Dissertation writing

    Saturday, November 12, 2011

    The first edition of Locke, Spirduso, & Silverman’s Proposals that Work broke ground for academic publishing of reader friendly books offering advice to graduate students on thesis, dissertation and proposal writing. I’ve listed a few titles below. New venues entering this academic publishing pipeline include Youtube videos. Below is an engaging example of Peg Boyle [...]

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    IIQM – an impressive center

    Wednesday, March 30, 2011

    As I’ve written before, few university centers exist that support qualitative research. The University of Alberta sponsors an Interdisciplinary Center called the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology. In addition to providing faculty support, the center sponsors an annual conference and a journal that is free to subscribers. I would love to visit their center to [...]

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    Peshkin on interpreting data

    Tuesday, November 16, 2010

    I recommend Peshkin’s article to graduate students and instructors searching for well written discussions on researcher subjectivity and interpreting data. The study presented in the paper focuses on the academic achievements of Native American youth. He writes to a wider audience of researchers and offers counterpoints where alternative interpretative decisions could have been made. The [...]

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    Welcome!

    Saturday, April 24, 2010

    Welcome to my blog about qualitative inquiry. I began writing in April 2009 about teaching and mentoring qualitative research and my work as faculty coordinator of the Center for Qualitative Inquiry at Texas Woman’s University, Denton Texas USA. An overreaching goal is to open up dialogue. I look forward to your comments.

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    Landing on goals for a unique center

    Saturday, April 24, 2010

    Stories about how we set out to define and achieve the goals of setting up a Center for Qualitative Inquiry at Texas Woman’s University.

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    Video Analysis- Interactional Ethnography Perspectives

    Friday, April 23, 2010

    Dr. Judith Green is an incredibly prolific writer. I use a great deal of her work in my courses. In 2007, she published an invaluable chapter on video data analysis. The title of the chapter is: Epistemological issues in the analysis of video records: Interactional ethnography as a logic of inquiry. In Goldman, R., Barron, [...]

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    Centers, conferences, & focus groups

    Friday, April 23, 2010

    The International Institute of Qualitative Inquiry is based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain USA. Dr. Norm Denzin is the director of the center. The center sponsors an annual conference. The Sixth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will be held May 26-29, 2010. I was pleased to learn that Drs. Greg Dimitriadis & George Kamberelis be [...]

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    International contemplations

    Thursday, April 22, 2010

    US researchers can have a rather angsty relationship with the rest of the world when they fail to notice their international audience in their writing. This is precisely what I want to avoid. I want to thank my international audience of readers, particularly those who take the time to rss my blog posts. Today I [...]

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    QDA Miner

    Thursday, April 22, 2010

    An impressive workshop was announced today via the Qualitative Research for the Human Sciences list (QUALRS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU) I have not used this software and hope to learn more about the benefits for users working with multiple data sources. 14th & 15th June 2010 QDA Miner 2-day Introductory Workshop, University of Surrey, UK QUIC and the CAQDAS [...]

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    Confessions

    Sunday, April 18, 2010

    Many thanks to comments from Kip Jones. I look forward to following his blog and learning from him. In regards to delving deeper, as a relatively newbie blogger I recognize that I tend to focus energy on the formatting of the theme, etc. Having my theme go down this past week didn’t help (thank goodness [...]

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    Kip’s World: Embracing Serendipity

    Sunday, April 18, 2010

    I’ve enjoyed reading Dr. Kip Jones’ Blog at http://kipworldblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/embracing-serendipity_18.html He is a Reader in Qualitative Research, Centre for Qualitative Research Leader, Performative Social Science Group, School of Health & Social Care and The Media School, Bournemouth University, UK. I am also rapt in the video post that he provided on his website entitled: “Beyond Text: relations of [...]

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    Methodspace

    Sunday, April 18, 2010

    An interesting site called Methodspace “is the home of the Research Methods community from across the world”. Based on my reading, the site appears to be supported by Sage Publications. After being granted access to the site I was pleased to learn that many wonderful colleagues have posted to the site and have begun sharing [...]

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    Video Analysis

    Friday, April 16, 2010

    Baker, W.D. & Green, J. (2007). Limits to certainty in interpreting video data: Interactional ethnography and disciplinary knowledge, Pedagogies, 2(3). This is an amazing article. The uncertainties of analysis and our developing interpretations can be the most difficult issues for new researchers and those who are new to qualitative inquiry. Baker & Green reveal a [...]

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    Conversational Analysis Tutorial

    Friday, April 16, 2010

    A good friend reminded me of a wonderful tutorial on conversation analysis found at: http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~ssca1/intro1.htm CA is now a settled discipline, developed since the pioneering work in the sixties by the sociologist Harvey Sacks. What it has accumulated as insights and findings can be brought to bear on any set of data where language is used [...]

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    Rigor in Qualitative Research

    Friday, April 16, 2010

    How do you support graduate students who are new to qualitative inquiry in understanding rigor in qualitative research designs? This chapter supports me well in this goal. I have used this chapter reading for quite a while in my advanced qualitative design and analysis course is entitled: Rigor in Qualitative Research: The assessment of trustworthiness [...]

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    Epistemology

    Friday, April 16, 2010

    I want to begin posting about “additional readings” that I use in my qualitative research courses. Epistemology & Educational Research by Gregg Kelley (2006). In Green, J., Camilli, G. & P. Elmore (eds.). Handbook of complementary methods in education research. Washington: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates & American Education Research Association. I like to begin the semester [...]

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    It just takes 120 seconds

    Friday, April 16, 2010

    We have provided access to voice recognition software since the Center for Qualitative Inquiry opened its doors. Early on we used Dragon Naturally Speaking for pc users and MacSpeech IListen for mac users. Last year we upgraded to MacSpeech Dictate for mac users. The software was easier to train than earlier versions of mac packages. [...]

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  • Dialogue and Representation Conference

    Wednesday, April 14, 2010

    Members of the DISCOURS@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG list posted the following call today: Call for Papers
: DIALOGUE AND REPRESENTATION IADA — International Association for Dialogue Analysis
13th International Conference on Dialogue Analysis
www.dialogue-representation.org April 26-30, 2011
Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada

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  • Analysis – it’s not about the software

    Wednesday, April 14, 2010

    A wonderrful discussion thread on QUALRS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU about using software for data analysis broadly, and grounded theory specifically, included reference to the following text that discusses phases of analysis through reading and reflection. While I prefer to be able to organize my data via a software program and engage in similar processes described in the discussion, I [...]

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  • NVivo 9

    Tuesday, April 13, 2010

    Cynthia Jacobs of QSRInternational posted the following message today about the upcoming version of NVivo. NVivo 9 software will be released in October 2010. NVivo 9 will allow researchers to import and work with databases and spreadsheets including Excel, Access, and text delimited files. You can work with data in a ‘table view’ or a [...]

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  • International Marxism and Psychology Conference

    Tuesday, April 13, 2010

    A QUALRS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Post received today: The preliminary program for the 2010 Marxism and Psychology Conference (August 5-7, 2010 – Prince Edward Island) is now available on the conference website: http://vre.upei.ca/mprg

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  • Manchester Ethnography Group

    Tuesday, April 13, 2010

    Wishing that I could attend the upcoming Manchester Ethnography Group Seminar tomorrow. The following message came via Jacqueline Eke: A reminder that our final spring seminar takes place tomorrow, Wednesday 14 April: Max Travers (University of Tasmania, Australia) In search of court culture: explaining juvenile detention rates in three Australian states. http://www.mmu.ac.uk 4.00 – 6.00pm [...]

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  • Representation in Ethnography

    Monday, April 12, 2010

    A wonderful edited text written by John Van Maanen (Tales of the Field) is entitled: Representation in Ethnography (Sage Publishing). The text includes chapters by wonderful authors such as Harry Wolcott, Laurel Richardson, Michael Agar.

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  • Contours of culture

    Monday, April 12, 2010

    I’m currently reading and recommending: Contours of culture: Complex ethnography and the ethnography of complexity By Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, William Housley

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  • The long interview

    Monday, April 12, 2010

    A “small” text published by Sage entitled: The Long Interview, by G. McCracken. McCracken writings about key theoretical and methodological issues relating to his “simple four-step model of inquiry”. 1. Review of analytic categories 2. Review of cultural categories 3. Discovery of cultural categories 4. Discovery of analytic categories. He outlines states of the analytic [...]

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  • Imperial Eyes

    Monday, April 12, 2010

    A few years ago I was reviewing literature relating to intersubjectivity. I happened upon a wonderful text by Mary Louise Pratt entitled: Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. At the time that the text went to press, Dr. Pratt was a Professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, and of Comparative Literature, at Stanford [...]

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  • Journeys through ethnography

    Monday, April 12, 2010

    A wonderful text that I have returned to recently is Laureau, A. & Shultz, J. (1996). (eds.). Journeys through ethnography: Realistic accounts of fieldwork Boulder, Co.: Westview Press. This text brings readers back to early conversations by scholars such as William Whyte, author of Street Corner Society and Suan Kriefer, author of Beyond Subjectivity. The [...]

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  • Irish Qualitative Data Archive

    Friday, April 2, 2010

    I couldn’t agree more with The Weekly Qualitative Report Resource of the Week selection of the Irish Qualitative Data Archive: This website provides access to qualitative data, including photographic data, specific to Ireland. Those with qualit ative research to contribute may also add a catalogue record through the site. Coincidently, I am heading to Ireland in [...]

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  • Storytelling, Narrative, and Antenarrative

    Sunday, March 28, 2010

    The following conference notice was posted today via the The Discourse Studies List <DISCOURS@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>: The 20th Annual Standing Conference for Management and Organizational Inquiry (sc’MOI) will be held April 14-16, 2011 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Theme will be: Storytelling, Narrative and Antenarrative: A Celebration of the Contributions of David Boje. Join the sc’MOI network at [...]

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  • Autoethnography

    Sunday, March 21, 2010

    I include Ellis, C., & Bochner, A. P. (1996). Composing ethnography: alternative forms of qualitative writing. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press. as an Interactive Book Presentation text as an option for students to read (see interactive book presentation assignment posts). Students are surprised by the date of the publication and wonder if it is a [...]

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  • Interactive Book Presentation Texts: Course 1

    Sunday, March 21, 2010

    The first course in the doctoral level qualitative research courses that I developed and have been teaching for several years is entitled: Qualitative Research (an introduction) is currently offered every fall semester. The course is organized around four major assignments: Highly Collaborative Assignments: Interactive Book Presentation Discussion leading of assigned reading Independently developed assignments that include [...]

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  • Interactive Book Presentation Assignment: Course 2

    Saturday, March 20, 2010

    My doctoral level Advanced Qualitative Research Design and Analysis Course (course 2 in series, offered every summer session) is organized around four course assignments: Leading dialogue, Research notebook, Interactive Book Presentation, and a “Mini” research proposal I’ve posted about books available for selection for the The Interactive Book Presentation. But, I have been remiss in providing further [...]

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  • VizThink

    Friday, March 19, 2010

    VizThink is devoted Visual Data explorations: http://vizthink.com/blog/2010/03/04/pivot-a-turning-point-for-visual-data-exploration/

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  • Summative Analysis

    Friday, March 19, 2010

    I received the following notice from the Qualitative Research for the Human Sciences <QUALRS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> list: Qualitative Research Unit Want to learn a New Qualitative Analytic Technique? “Summative Analysis: An Introductory Workshop” Wednesday 26th May 2010 Room 104, Digital Technium, Swansea University Time: 9.45am for 10am start until 12pm Price: £35 (£30 for students) including light [...]

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  • Talking data

    Sunday, March 14, 2010

    Talking Data: Transcription and Coding in Discourse Research. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993. I have included this text as an “interactive book presentation text assignment” option in my Qualitative Research Design and Analysis course for several semesters. The text is not an introduction – students do need to own a firm grounding in the wider [...]

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  • Conversation and Discourse Analysis

    Sunday, March 14, 2010

    Wooffitt, Dr Robin. Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis: A Comparative and Critical Introduction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Ltd, 2005 Chapters 1 & 2 are invaluable resources for supporting newcomers in understanding the differences between conversation analysis and discourse analysis.

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  • Doctoral Student Seminar / Narrative Research

    Saturday, March 13, 2010

    The Narrative Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association will be hosting a doctoral student seminar. Details distributed via the listserve: Beginning two years ago, a tradition of bringing together doctoral students was started in the Narrative Research SIG. Dr. Stefinee Pinnegar, co-chair of the Narrative Research SIG, also organizes Invisible College. She has again [...]

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  • “Primary texts” for teaching

    Saturday, March 13, 2010

    Currently, I use Marshall, C. & G. B. Rossman (2006). Designing qualitative research (4th). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications as a primary text in my Qualitative Research Design & Analysis course. Because my courses are attended by graduate students from multiple disciplines it is important for me to select texts that include multi-disciplinary discussions of theoretical perspectives, [...]

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  • Transcription support

    Saturday, March 13, 2010

    I received the following notice via the Qualitative Research for Human Services Listserve: Provided below is a resource for transcription work, if you ever have a need for it in your current or future research work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CabbageTree Solutions offer low cost and high quality audio transcription service. The team can transcribe a range of audio recordings of teleclass, [...]

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  • Conversation Analysis

    Saturday, March 13, 2010

    In previous posts I refer to “entering conversations and the road to now” and the need to read primary sources in order to join the conversations about particular methodologies or theoretical turns in the road. I offer students the opportunity to select George Psathas’ text on conversational analysis: Psathas, George (1995). Conversation Analysis: The Study [...]

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  • Gaining access

    Tuesday, March 9, 2010

    Few texts are devoted to the important topic of gaining access to research sites / participants. I include Feldman, M. S., Bell, J., & Berger, M. T. (2003). Gaining access: a practical and theoretical guide for qualitative researchers. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press as an  ”interactive book presentation text” option in my qualitative research methods [...]

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  • Discourse as data

    Tuesday, March 9, 2010

    Yates, S., Taylor, S., & Wetherell, M. (2001). Discourse as data: a guide for analysis. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage. A student wrote this insightful review of this text: When attempting to choose a book that would lend itself to giving a novice such as myself an overall understanding of goals, uses and procedures of discourse analysis [...]

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  • Spradley: Staples and classics

    Tuesday, March 9, 2010

    James Spradley was a professor of anthropology. His texts provide a wonderfully accessible discussion of “steps” in ethnographic data collection and analysis. Spradley, J. (1979). The ethnographic interview. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers. Spradley, J. (1980). Participant observation. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers.

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  • Writing up qual research

    Tuesday, March 9, 2010

    Wolcott, H. F. (2008). Writing up qualitative research (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. Wolcott’s Writing Up Qualitative Research is written for a doctoral student audience. He shares helpful insights andd advice on how to write your dissertation after you’ve completed your research. One of my students wrote: “Wolcott’s helpful book addresses everything from how to [...]

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  • Terms and definitions

    Sunday, March 7, 2010

    Graduate students are often surprised to learn that the field of qualitative research includes so many specialized terms used differently or interchangeably. Schwandt’s text has kept pace with new literature and changing definitions of what counts as current definitions and who gets to decide. Schwandt, T. A. (2007). The SAGE dictionary of qualitative inquiry (3rd [...]

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  • Narrative Inquiry: Call for papers

    Monday, February 22, 2010

    Narrative researchers – A new publication opportunity was announced today via the AERA Narrative studies SIG group. The call is up at: http://ineducation.ca/contribute

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  • Learning how to ask

    Monday, February 22, 2010

    Charles Briggs (1986) text entitled: Learning how to ask: a sociolinguistic appraisal of the role of the interview in social science research (Cambridge University Press) addresses important issues relating to the interpretation of interview data. Readers who are new to literature on “speech communities” may want to read Edward Hall’s books (e.g., Beyond Culture, The [...]

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  • Learning from strangers

    Monday, February 22, 2010

    Another text that I include as an option for students to read is by R.S. Weiss (1994): Learning from strangers: the art and method of qualitative interview studies. (The Free Press). Those who are new to qualitative research and interviewing find this text to be a valuable “how to” book that includes a clear theoretical [...]

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  • Early childhood qual research

    Monday, February 22, 2010

    Another “interactive book presentation” text that is included in my qual classes is J. A. Hatch’s (2007) Early childhood qualitative research. (Routledge). While the title tends to attract early childhood doctoral students, the content is valuable across disciplines. A focus of the text is on a variety of qualitative methodologies and how these approaches can [...]

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  • The Professional Stranger

    Monday, February 22, 2010

    When I teach qualitative research courses, I incorporate primary and secondary text readings. I refer to the secondary text as the “interactive book presentation” text. Students negotiate the selection and reading of one additional text from a list provided. They read the text, interact with their small group about their text via Blackboard, and make [...]

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  • Conference on language and gender in African contexts

    Thursday, February 4, 2010

    SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS DATE: 13 – 15 APRIL, 2010 VENUE: CONFERENCE CENTRE, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, ILE-IFE, OSUN STATE, NIGERIA We are pleased to invite you to attend the International Conference on Language and Gender in African Contexts scheduled to take place at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, from 13-15 April, 2010. Similar events on [...]

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  • Professional transcription services

    Tuesday, February 2, 2010

    The Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst offers professional transcription from a variety of audio file formats. Please contact us today for more information: qdap@polsci.umass.edu. Audio transcription services are billed at $22 per hour. It is typical to estimate 5 hours of transcription per 1 hour of audio, depending on [...]

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  • Spring Seminars: Manchester Ethnography Group

    Friday, January 22, 2010

    The Manchester Ethnography Group announced the following schedule for their spring seminars: Firstly, we want to re-iterate our call that we are always looking for speakers who have interesting materials / ideas that they would like to discuss in one of the Manchester Ethnography Group Seminars.  If you would like to do so / have [...]

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  • Mention in Weekly Qualitative Report

    Monday, January 11, 2010

    I am so pleased to write that this blog was listed in the January 4th edition of The Weekly Qualitative Report under Qualitative Research Resource of the Week! Link directly to: http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/WQR/wqr3_1.html

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  • IPhone App for Ethnographic Research

    Saturday, January 9, 2010

    The December issue of the Weekly Qualitative Report included a link to a fascinating site containing information and a YouTube Video describing an I-Phone/Touch app for ethnographic work. I am posting prior to downloading of the app. My initial impression is that the developer has framed the application for “consumer” ethnographic work. The video presentation [...]

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  • Linguistics and Education

    Monday, December 21, 2009

    Linguistics and Education is an international peer reviewed journal publishing work in the areas of: text/corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, functional grammar, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, conversational analysis, linguistic anthropology/ethnography, language acquisition, language socialization, narrative studies, gesture/ sign /visual forms of communication, cognitive linguistics, literacy studies, language policy, and language ideology.

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  • Discourse Processes

    Monday, December 21, 2009

    Discourse processes is a peer-reviewed journal publishing work in the discourse area from the perspective of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse psychology, text linguistics, ethnomethodology and sociology of language, education, philosophy of language, computer science, and related subareas are invited to contribute.

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  • Summer Inst in Qual Research

    Sunday, December 20, 2009

    SUMMER INSTITUTE IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PUTTING THEORY TO WORK Monday 19 – Friday 23 July 2010 Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK The MMU Summer Institute in Qualitative Research will provide the opportunity to learn about current trends in theory and methodology, in dialogue with leading theorists. What are the current trends [...]

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  • Center for Digital Storytelling

    Saturday, December 19, 2009

    The Center for Digital Storytelling offers an amazing experience to all! I provide the direct link on my Qualitative Research Blackboard course sites and love to hear my students reactions when they happen upon the link. Listen Deeply, tell Stories! Blurb from the site’s homepage (http://www.storycenter.org/) Every community has a memory of itself. Neither an [...]

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  • Qualitative Research for Human Sciences

    Friday, December 18, 2009

    The Qualitative Research for Human Sciences is another valuable discussion list. The list is hosted by the University of Georgia. The following link provides instructions for joining along with archives of list posts and discussions since September 1991. http://listserv.uga.edu/archives/qualrs-l.html

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  • Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT)

    Friday, December 18, 2009

    I received the following notice today from the Qualitative Research for the Human Sciences Discussion List. I’m not familiar with this analysis tool and would appreciate receiving feedback from others. Their website requires registration but is free to users as a beta version: http://pcat.qdap.net/ The Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT) is Web-based, university-hosted software engineered [...]

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  • Manchester Ethnography Group

    Thursday, December 17, 2009

    I recently joined the Manchester Ethnography Group Seminar mailing list for discussions hosted by Manchester Metropolitan UniversityDepartment of Sociology faculty.

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  • Ethnographic Studies

    Thursday, December 17, 2009

    Ethnographic Studies is a refereed journal focusing on work in ethnography and ethnomethodology. The website notes that the journal also provides a forum for sympathetic research in other human sciences, such as psychology and history. Its aim is to promote qualitative inquiry. The policy of the journal is to publish empirical studies but also theoretical [...]

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  • Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research

    Thursday, December 17, 2009

    The Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research is a peer reviewed publication. The homepage for the journal and the annual conference is located at: http://www.cedarville.edu/academics/education/eqrc/journal/journal.htm

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  • Ethno and CA News

    Thursday, December 17, 2009

    An extensive site (http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/emca/) dedicated to ethnomethodology and conversation analysis is maintained by Paul ten Have, retired Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Antropology, Faculty of Social  and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam. The site includes calls for papers, upcoming conferences, and researcher resources.

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  • Educational Action Research Network

    Thursday, December 17, 2009

    Any educator in any country may use the Action Research Network tool for sharing research and viewing the research of others. Register at: http://actionresearch.altec.org/

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  • Presentation Zen

    Thursday, December 17, 2009

    There are so many publications and websites about what counts as the worst Powerpoint / Keynote presentations. However, few sources provide real support in how to develop high quality slides and how to deliver your message(s) in an engaging way. I highly recommend Garr Reynolds book and blog site entitled Presentation Zen. He is a renowned [...]

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  • Conference in Ecuador

    Saturday, December 12, 2009

    A conference announcement was posted today from Lucia Astidillo, University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador: SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL, CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador 5-7 January 2010 http://www.SustainabilityConference.com Ecuador, 5-7 January 2010 and New Zealand, 5-7 January 2011- Call for Papers

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  • The Qualitative Report (TQR)

    Sunday, December 6, 2009

    I’ve posted previously about the Qualitative Report co-edited by Ronald J. Chenail, Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University: The December 2009 issue of The Qualitative Report (TQR) is now ready! Volume 14 Number 4 is viewable online and available for your reading pleasure at http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR14-4/index.html. TQR 14-4 marks our last 10 article issue because starting with March 2010 we [...]

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  • AERA Qual SIG

    Sunday, November 1, 2009

    In the most recent newsletter of the American Education Research Association Qualitative Research SIG group includes a thought provoking virtual interview by Dr. Valerie Janesick with Dr. Judith Green, a Professor and Director of the Center for Literacy & Inquiry in Networking Communities, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara. Prologue from Judith: [...]

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  • Why Twitter matters for qualitative researchers

    Wednesday, October 7, 2009

    I love Kumeugirl’s blog post on why Twitter matters for qualitative researchers. Her marketing based qualitative approach is a valuable resource.

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  • Writing Fieldnotes

    Wednesday, October 7, 2009

    In chapter 4 of Emerson, Robert M., Fretz, Rachel I., & Shaw, Linda L. (1995). Writing ethnographic fieldnotes. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, entitled writing up fieldnotes II: creating scenes on a page, we are reminded: To view writing fieldnotes simply as a  matter of putting on paper what a field researcher has heard and [...]

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  • What are practices of sharing resources?

    Monday, October 5, 2009

    Recently, I grapple with models of sharing resources. A university culture is unique in its particular practices for sharing. Questions that keep surfacing in my mind include: What would count as a social best in the practices of sharing? How would it be defined? By whom? What conditions would sustain the model constructed? It seems [...]

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  • The lived experience of the ethnographer

    Monday, October 5, 2009

    Try writing an ethnography of something very close to you. A story from the beginning of your life that takes you to the present moment. A family, silence and secrets, a few spoken words, a death, memory and love. An intimate culture to be certain. This will take you beyond questions of participant-observation, unstructured data, [...]

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  • Entering conversations / the road to now

    Friday, October 2, 2009

    When I teach qualitative research classes my students wonder why I include “older” texts in our list of readings. They have been socialized to believe that current conversations in research are the most relevant. When it comes to understanding research methods it is important to go back further – we can always find our way [...]

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  • “Brown Bagging It” for Qualitative Research Sessions

    Friday, October 2, 2009

    Last fall semester we began offering informational presentations to assist faculty and graduate students with “hands-on” experiences in using software. My graduate assistants and I work together in identifying the topics and content. They have taken on the major part of the presentations and now excel at developing and delivering hands-on activities and eye-catching slides. [...]

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  • Voice Recognition Software

    Friday, October 2, 2009

    Visitors to our Center for Qualitative Inquiry often ask about voice recognition software. We currently provide users with access to MacSpeech and Dragon Speaking Naturally software. Voice recognition software has improved dramatically over the past few years. While you still need to train the software to recognize your voice by reading passages, this now only [...]

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  • QSR launches NVivo 8 video

    Friday, October 2, 2009

    QSR International has ramped up user support for NVivo version 8 by adding video clips in addition to the screen shot web based tutorials.

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  • LINGUIST list

    Tuesday, July 14, 2009

    I subscribe to an interesting list from the LINGUIST list . The site offers “a peer-reviewed database of language and language-family information, and recommendations of best practice for digitizing endangered languages data”. A recent thread on the e-mail list has centered on requests for resources on understanding and doing CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis). Of course, [...]

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  • Digital Story Telling

    Monday, July 6, 2009

    An important component of teaching about qualitative research is to provide students with a variety of experiences in various genres and approaches to qualitative inquiry. Digital story telling is a wonderful way of approaching this instructional goal. Two wonderful resources to check out if you are interested in digital story telling. The first is the [...]

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  • Qualitative Inquiry Journal

    Monday, July 6, 2009

    Another important journal that focuses on qualitative research is the Qualitative Inquiry Journal published by Sage. http://qix.sagepub.com/

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  • International Review

    Monday, July 6, 2009

    The INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH is a peer reviewed journal that encourages the use of critical, experimental and traditional forms of qualitative inquiry in the interests of social justice.

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  • Upcoming international conference

    Monday, July 6, 2009

    The International workshop on Computer-Aided Qualitative Research Asia 2010 will be held in the city of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia on the 3 & 4 February 2010. http://www.merlien.org/upcoming-events/caqr2010-kl.html Key objectives of the workshop: Developing a deeper understanding on the implications of software choice on research Promoting best practices for using software tools in qualitative research Providing networking opportunities for [...]

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  • Looking outside the U.S.A.

    Monday, July 6, 2009

    An important component in providing support to researchers at Texas Woman’s University’s Center for Qualitative Inquiry is to share resources. We try to support novice qualitative researchers by directing their gaze toward resources available within and outside the USA. For example, in a recent Weekly Qualitative Report, The Centre for Narrative Research, at the University [...]

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  • Exploring qualitative designs & resources

    Thursday, July 2, 2009

    An incredible resource for new and experienced qualitative researchers is available at a site called The Qualitative Report located at http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/web.html The site provides an expansive database of definitions and hyperlinks to high quality websites detailing a vast number of qualitative research approaches.

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  • My “telling case” continued

    Tuesday, June 30, 2009

    I began by writing a proposal that laid out current needs. Setting up a needs statement requires identifying the gaps in services and support. That was not difficult. At the time, the only research software provided to faculty and students was for SPSS for statistical analysis. Like most universities, faculty made individual decisions and purchases [...]

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Resources

Nov
12

Dissertation writing

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The first edition of Locke, Spirduso, & Silverman’s Proposals that Work broke ground for academic publishing of reader friendly books offering advice to graduate students on thesis, dissertation and proposal writing. I’ve listed a few titles below. New venues entering this academic publishing pipeline include Youtube videos. Below is an engaging example of Peg Boyle [...]

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Apr
24

Welcome!

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Welcome to my blog about qualitative inquiry. I began writing in April 2009 about teaching and mentoring qualitative research and my work as faculty coordinator of the Center for Qualitative Inquiry at Texas Woman’s University, Denton Texas USA. An overreaching goal is to open up dialogue. I look forward to your comments.

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Apr
24

Landing on goals for a unique center

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Stories about how we set out to define and achieve the goals of setting up a Center for Qualitative Inquiry at Texas Woman’s University.

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Apr
23

Centers, conferences, & focus groups

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The International Institute of Qualitative Inquiry is based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain USA. Dr. Norm Denzin is the director of the center. The center sponsors an annual conference. The Sixth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will be held May 26-29, 2010. I was pleased to learn that Drs. Greg Dimitriadis & George Kamberelis be [...]

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Apr
22

QDA Miner

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An impressive workshop was announced today via the Qualitative Research for the Human Sciences list (QUALRS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU) I have not used this software and hope to learn more about the benefits for users working with multiple data sources. 14th & 15th June 2010 QDA Miner 2-day Introductory Workshop, University of Surrey, UK QUIC and the CAQDAS [...]

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