Video in Qualitative Research
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Video in Qualitative Research: Analysing social interaction in everyday life (Sage 2010), by Jon Hindmarsh, Christian Heath, Paul Luff, offers one of the few in-depth discussions of “fine-grained analysis of social organisation, culture and communication” captured in video data. The text is written for classroom use and offers exercises at the end of each chapter to support learning and instruction. I highly recommend the text for new researchers. The overall goal of the text is to provide practical guidance in using video data in qualitative research. Examples of transcripts and photographs...
UK Summer Institute
Monday, June 14, 2010
I’ve been AFK during my trip to Ireland and look forward to sharing some of the resources that I acquired in the mail during my vacation. Today a reminder came through regarding the following: Summer Institute in Qualitative Research: Putting Theory to Work 19-23 July 2010, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Read More
Tech Talk
Monday, May 17, 2010
I am honored to work with two talented research assistants in the Center for Qualitative Inquiry. Marlene Montgomery and Dhrumil Patel bring many strengths and background experiences to their ongoing support of faculty and graduate student users. As mentioned previously, I currently serve as the newsletter editor for the American Educational Research Association Qualitative Research SIG. In followup to their Workshop presentations I invited them to contribute articles for the new tech talk column of the newsletter. The newsletter has an international readership and their articles are quite popular...
How to curate your data
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
I discovered this book last evening while searching through Left Coast Press’ catalog for new resources on Oral Histories and interviewing. Curating Oral Histories From Interview to Archive Nancy MacKay (Author) 156 pp. / 8.50 x 11.00 / Oct, 2006 Hardback (978-1-59874-057-8) Paperback (978-1-59874-058-5) I am adding this book to my shelf because it was written by a curator and promises to provide new researchers with easy to understand oral history materials management. I especially appreciate the inclusion of ethical considerations in her discussion. I’ll write again about this book...
Ph.D. Comics
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Ph.D. Comics (or Piled Higher and Deeper.com) provides some of the funniest grad school characters and web comics that I have ever seen. I use the comics in my teaching. They have a new group of comics for subscribers to Academia.edu. Anyone who is or has been a graduate student can relate to the characters and topics. I like to post on some of the comics on my Blackboard course announcement pages. I download new comics, add to my favorites folder, and rank order according to topics that might seem most relevant to my students during that part of the semester. For example, there are always new...
IIQM – A model for excellence
Friday, April 23, 2010
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. Why do I have a photo of a suitcase? Because I REALLY want to visit their center to share experiences and learn more about their center. Perhaps when I return from my trip to Ireland and visit to the Irish Qualitative Data Archive center I can plan for a...
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 will be leading a workshop session entitled: The Critical Use of Focus Groups. Focus group research has gained tremendous popularity in many fields. I know that students attending my doctoral level qualitative research courses arrive interested...
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 Networking Project are delighted that Normand Peladeau, of Provalis Research will lead this two day workshop. This workshop provides an introduction to QDA Miner, a software designed to provide qualitative and quantitative (content) analysis of...
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 dialogue, parody and contestation” Trevor Hearing and Kip Jones in conversation about the making of ‘Day Dreams, Night Games’ and visual production...
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 resources. I enjoyed reading the posts on the discussion boards and recommend a look. Read More
qualitative Inquiry
Welcome!
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. I won’t include ads but if you enjoy my blog please take a moment to visit my profile at Scribnia.com and rate my blog. Read More
Methodspace
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 resources. I enjoyed reading the posts on the discussion boards and recommend a look. Read More
our Center for Qualitative Inquiry
Tech Talk
I am honored to work with two talented research assistants in the Center for Qualitative Inquiry. Marlene Montgomery and Dhrumil Patel bring many strengths and background experiences to their ongoing support of faculty and graduate student users. As mentioned previously, I currently serve as the newsletter editor for the American Educational Research Association Qualitative Research [...]
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Video Analysis- Interactional Ethnography Perspectives
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, [...]
