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

Landing on goals for a unique center

The Center for Qualitative Inquiry (CQI) opened its doors four years ago. In the “about” page I lay out particulars about the purpose of the center. In brief, the purpose for developing the Center was two fold. First, to provide high-end hardware, software, and user support to graduate students and faculty. This meant coming up with short term funding to get us started, and long term funding to sustain the Center. The second goal was simply to bring qualitative researchers... Read More

Looking outside the U.S.A.

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 of West London, U.K. is featured.  Read More