By Irish Qualitati... ~ Posted Mon, 04/08/2013 - 14:14
Title: Qualitative Research Methods for Equity in Education Loction: Rovereto Dates: 16th to 21st September 2013
The Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, organizes the fourth edition of the International Summer School in Qualitative Research Methods in Education, this year focused on Equity in Education.
Graduate students, post doc and researchers who have been involved in social justice- or equity- oriented research and/or training pertaining to SJ are welcome. The course will be held in English.
The Summer School will take place in Rovereto from September 16th to 21st, with the scientific coordination of Prof. Massimiliano Tarozzi. Faculty are Penny Burke (University of Sussex, UK), Carlos Alberto Torres (University of California Los Angeles, USA) and Marcella Milana (University of Aarhus, DK).
More details will be posted on the website (under construction) with all the info, including the application, the detailed program and the cost of the Summer School.
Summary of workshop aims: Qualitative longitudinal data presents particular complexities and challenges for analysis. This workshop explores some of these challenges and offers conceptually informed practical strategies for analysing qualitative longitudinal (QL) data. It also addresses challenges of, and strategies for, undertaking secondary analysis of qualitative and QL data. Participants will learn about available archived resources and how they might access and explore archived qualitative data. They will also learn about strategies in the secondary analysis of such data, and about possibilities for teaching qualitative analysis using archived data. Presentations are made by experts in the field. The training day draws in part on the work of the ESRC Timescapes Qualitative Longitudinal Initiative: ‘Changing lives and times: relationships and identities through the life course’, and we will offer a practical session on using the Timescapes Archive. Presentations will be interspersed with participatory practical sessions in which delegates can explore resources, data, and analytic strategies, as well as bringing to bear their own research interests. A plenary session will draw out and explore key themes from the day and facilitate discussion and debate amongst participants and presenters.
Presenters: Professor Bren Neale; Professor Rachel Thomson; Dr Libby Bishop, Dr. Jo Haynes, Dr. Mandy Winterton and Dr. Sarah Irwin.
By Irish Qualitati... ~ Posted Tue, 01/29/2013 - 20:00
Date: 18th and 19th of April, 2013 Location: Collingwood College, Durham University, UK
If you are supervising a 3rd (or 4th) year doctoral candidate in the social sciences who is engaged in writing up qualitative data, then you might be interested in applying for them to attend this workshop, which has been specifically designed to help them with this process. This is the sixth year this very well-received and popular workshop has run, and the third time that we are accepting nominations from outside the UK, as well as from British universities.
Please note that doctoral candidates have to be supported in their nomination by their supervisor.
There has been considerable interest in the Writing on Writing section of the site, where social science luminaries write short pieces on writing. The latest piece is by the sociologist Les Back. Previous pieces posted include ones by Marilyn Strathern, Liz Stanley, Norman Denzin, JP Roos, Arthur Kleinman, Howard Becker, Ken Plummer, Harry Walcott, Alan Walker, William Outhwaite, Bryan Turner, Julian Le Grand, Arthur Frank, Jaber Gubrium, Tim Ingold, Harvey Molotch, Roy Wagner, Catherine Finer Jones, Shulamit Reinharz, Ann Tsing and Paulla Ebron and Paul Nchozi Nkwi, Ann Tsing and Paulla Ebron. There is also a section where doctoral candidates can submit pieces on writing, called Postgraduates on Writing.
By Irish Qualitati... ~ Posted Mon, 05/10/2010 - 11:21
The Centre for Transformative Narrative Inquiry is delighted that Professor Arthur Frank will present an evening Seminar on Wednesday 9th June from 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. and a Masterclass on Thursday 10th June from 9.30 a.m – 3.30 p.m.
Arthur Frank is Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary in Canada and is author of “At the Will of the Body”, “The Wounded Storyteller” and his most recent book “The Renewal of Generosity”. He has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the role of pain and illness in people’s lives and how people make meaning of these experiences. In particular, he has focused on the role of stories and the importance of the teller and the listener. His unique approach to narrative research has added greatly to our capacity to be present in a more healing way to suffering.
Places need to be pre booked for the Masterclass. It would be preferable to reserve a place for the Seminar but places will also be available on the night. Please contact Mary Corbally in the Department of Adult and Community Education at NUI Maynooth for further details. Phone: (01) 708 3784. Email: mary.corbally@nuim.ie
By Irish Qualitati... ~ Posted Mon, 03/15/2010 - 10:49
Ankara University Sociology Department, Turkey and Sociology Department of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, México invite you to participate in the Seminar “Qualitative Computing: Diverse Worlds and Research Practices” to be held in Istanbul, February 24-26, 2011. The Seminar aims to bring users from the North and South, from the East and the West and from the centers and the peripheries. This is an excellent occasion for CAQDAS users from all disciplines to share their experiences with qualitative software.
“Qualitative Computing: Diverse Worlds and Research Practices” focuses on how research practices from diverse worlds have fostering qualitative computing. Such research practices has to be analyzed from methodological perspectives and the epistemological roots of each national way of practicing qualitative research must to be discussed as well. Thirty years of CAQDAS influence into the social sciences methodologies are not a simple issue and this Seminar is a great chance to discuss about the diversity of such influence.
The Trouble with Sharing: best practice in archiving qualitative data
Centre for Effective Services Services
9 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2
RSVP aileen.ocarroll@nuim.ie by Thursday the 20th of January
RAcCER: Re-use and Archiving of Complex Community-Based Evaluation Research
a joint initiative of the IQDA and Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (CDI)
Wednesday, November 24th 2010
Ethics review system and researching minors
Dr Arja Kuula
(IQDA/NIRSA)
Finland has recently established an ethics review system which will be common to all universities. The presentation will focus specifically on research with children and underage young people. In Finland it is not assumed that researchers should always request a separate consent from a guardian for research involving minors. The difficult balance between the principles of autonomy and protection when aiming to minimise harm to those affected by research will be discussed
When rejecting the archiving of qualitative interviews, researchers mainly invoke the confidentiality of the interview situation. Researchers tend to define the interview relationship as something unpredictable and private, and interviewees as participants in need of protection. According to the experiences of Finnish Social Science Data archive the interviewees themselves define the relationship as an institutional one aiming to foster science. The participants also value the idea of archiving their experiences for future research. So should we move beyond the ethical impasse of ethical objection to data archiving?
Arja Kuula has a PhD in Sociology and works as a development manager in the Finnish Social Science Data Archive. She is responsible for the archiving processes of qualitative data and information service on research ethics, privacy protection and copyright issues relating to both quantitative and qualitative data. In 2006, Kuula published a handbook on research ethics and legislation regulating data collection
and re-use. Kuula has been a member of the Finland's National Advisory Board on Research Ethics and she chaired 2008 a working group to make a plan for ethics review system in the humanities and social sciences in Finland.
28th April 2010
Critical reflections on Qualitative Research Praxis in Policy Commissoned Research on 'Crisis Pregnancy'
Catharine Conlon
Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre, UCD
Venue : NIRSA/NCG Conference Room, Third Floor
John Hume Building, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
28 April, 2010 @ 4pm
In this paper Catharine Conlon reflects on the particular opportunities and constraints offered by applied policy qualitative research including how the parameters of such a context for knowledge generation within the interpretative paradigm shapes what can become known.
Catharine ConlonFollowing a BA (Law and Sociology and Politics) from NUI Gaway 1990-1993, Catharine Conlon graduated with an MA in Women’s Studies from UCD in 1994 and took up work as a social researcher both within the university sector at Trinity College Dublin (Department of Sociology) and Women’s Education, Research and Resource Centre, University College Dublin, as well as in the public sector as Research Officer at the National Council on Ageing and Older People. Most recently (1999-2006) she was Research Co-ordinator at WERRC, UCD working on a range of projects in the areas of social policy, gender and equality, gender and health, and women’s adult education. In 2006 she was awarded an Ad Astra Scholarship to undertake a PhD looking at concealed pregnancy in contemporary Ireland and in 2007 awarded a joint Crisis Pregnancy Agency Fellowship for same.
Her PhD research draws together and develops on insights generated in applied policy research with pregnant Irish women that she has been involved in since 1995. These entailed two commissioned research projects of women’s 'crisis pregnancy' experiences during the ten years between 1995 and 2004 incorporating interviews with up to 200 women. Subsequently, she came in 2005 to a smaller study of ‘concealed pregnancy’, also commissioned by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency. Following feminist principles of reflexivity, her own political and ontological perspective as well as her reproductive biography, culminated to shape her decision to critically revisit the data generated by that research in an attempt to ‘get to’ the subjugated voice of women that she argues got ‘left behind’ in the thematic analysis framed by the commissioning bodies’ research aims and objectives written for the policy reports.
*Upcoming*
22nd June 2010
Irish Qualitative Data Archive Launch
We are delighted to announce the launch of the IQDA which is being held in June in order to coincide with the ISSP Summer School.
Venue : Renehan Hall, South Campus, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Directions can be found here.
22nd June, 2010 @ 6.20pm
Cancelled. The speaker is unable to fly out of Finland as the European air space remains to be closed due to the cloud of volcanic ash.
Ethical Dilemmas of Archiving Qualitative Data
Dr Arja Kuula
Finnish Social Science Data Archive/University of Tampere, Finland
Venue : NIRSA/NCG Conference Room, Third Floor
John Hume Building, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
21 April, 2010 @ 4pm
Abstract:
When rejecting the archiving of qualitative interviews, researchers mainly invoke the confidentiality of the interview situation. Researchers tend to define the interview relationship as something unpredictable and private, and interviewees as participants in need of protection. According to the experiences of Finnish Social Science Data archive the interviewees themselves define the relationship as an institutional one aiming to foster science. The participants also value the idea of archiving their experiences for future research. So should we move beyond the ethical impasse of ethical objection to data archiving?
Arja Kuula has a PhD in Sociology and works as a development manager in the Finnish Social Science Data Archive. She is responsible for the archiving processes of qualitative data and information service on research ethics, privacy protection and copyright issues relating to both quantitative and qualitative data. In 2006, Kuula published a handbook on research ethics and legislation regulating data collection
and re-use. Kuula has been a member of the Finland's National Advisory Board on Research Ethics and she chaired 2008 a working group to make a plan for ethics review system in the humanities and social sciences in Finland.
3 February 2010 What is the role of qualitative research in policy development?
Dr Liz Kerrins
Children's Research Centre (CRC), TCD
2 December 2009 The Role of Qualitative Data in Evaluation, Practice & Policy: the CDI Experience
Dr Tara Murphy
Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (CDI)
25 February 2009 Secondary analysis of qualitative data: why should post-graduates care?
Libby Bishop
ESDS Qualidata, University of Essex
Timescapes, University of Leeds Powerpoint Slides
24 February 2009 Skeletons in the archive: Ethical and methodological challenges of sharing data
Libby Bishop
ESDS Qualidata, University of Essex
Timescapes, University of Leeds
Collection of audio and visual material covering a series of sociological topics. The IQDA Learning Resources work as a self-guided learning tool for students.
Collection of audio clips that educators can use in the classroom. Educators can also apply to the IQDA for access to transcripts for teaching purposes.
IQDA RESEARCH RESOURCES
Collection of resources for researchers preparing to deposit qualitative data, and conducting secondary analysis on qualitative data.
Irish Qualitative Data Archive
c/o National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), IONTAS Building,
National University of Ireland Maynooth,
Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
IQDA site design and management:
Ruth Geraghty: Ruth.Geraghty[at]nuim.ie
Aileen O'Carroll: Aileen.OCarroll[at]nuim.ie
Enquiries: iqda[at]nuim.ie
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