The Graduate Student Qualitative Methods Network´s (GSQMN) next virtual gathering which will take place on April 12th, 22:00 CET. At this gathering, Jennifer Boyd, a doctoral candidate at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, will share her work on reconceptualizing agency with infants and toddlers. The purpose of the Graduate Student Qualitative Methods Network is to create spaces for graduate students to engage in methodological discussions, collaborations, and peer and faculty mentoring across institutions of higher education. This network will offer events where students can learn and share their qualitative research projects and methodological ideas. Graduate students and faculty interested in qualitative methods are welcome to join this conversation. You can register here: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckd-qorjwoH9TkPVEGWVCLaib3tblvG29q .
On November 16 and 17 2023 the Joint Conference of the German Sociological Association’s (DGS) Section Education (Bildung und Erziehung), and DGS Working Groups Mixed Methods (in Sections Methods of Empirical Social Research and Qualitative Social Research) and Science and Higher Education Research will take place at the Leibniz University in Hannover. The title of the conference is "Mixed Methods Research in Education: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Research of Kindergarten, Schools, Higher and Further Education" and the conference language will be English. The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 14 2023. You can find more information here.
For the second time, KonsortSWD awards funding to collaborate with a research data center to prepare your data and make it available to the scientific community for secondary use. The project funding supports the preparation and provision of relevant new qualitative and quantitative data corpora that are not yet available to the scientific community. The enrichment of existing data corpora by means of linking to additional data sources can also be funded if this significantly increases the analytical potential of data sources. You can find all the information about the call here.
This two-day workshop by Johnny Saldaña offers participants practical experiences with seven methods of coding qualitative data: in vivo, process, emotion, values, dramaturgical, causation, and axial coding. The workshop also reviews heuristic and analytic follow-up with codes and coding: analytic memos, categories, and diagrams. Manual (hard copy) coding with social media data will be emphasized with a discussion of available analytic software for future use. Workshop content is based on Johnny Saldaña’s The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (4th edition, 2021, Sage Publishing). The workshops will take place via the Zoom platform. The workshop will take place on July 11 - 12 2023 from 10:00 to 17:00 Eastern USA Time and costs $ 200,-. You can register here.
Research design is essentially a series of decision points. Each choice made at the design stage defines and clarifies the study’s direction. In qualitative research, methodologies provide a philosophical lens through with the researcher views the problem being investigated. Two researchers could start with the same problem, even the same question, and conduct it in a completely different way depending on the methodological choice. How do you decide which methodology fits your study? In this dialogue on Methodspace the importance of a strategic approach is discussed that stresses alignment with the purpose of the study. The discussants walk through this decision-making process and demonstrate how each choice lays the groundwork for the next.