TQR Volume 17 Article 19

TQR Volume 17 Article 20

Critical Reflections:
Interpretation and Analysis of Japanese Women's Settlement Experiences
Atsushi Takeda
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Narratives from the Online Frontier:
A K-12 Student's Experience in an Online Learning Environment
Michael Barbour, Jason Siko, JaCinda Sumara, and Kaye Simuel-Everage
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Qualitative Research News and Notes

Oxford University Press Releases TQR Editorial Board Member Tom Strong's New Edited Work

TQR Editorial Board Member Valerie Janesick to Be Honored at AERA Annual Conference

TQR Names New Editorial Board Members

The Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology, Now an Official Section in Division 5 of the American Psychological Association, Calls for Members

Qualitatively Speaking: The Irreplaceable On-site Ethnographer

Truth, Lies and Ethnography: Ethnography in the Consumer Space

Encouraging Innovation in Qualitative Research

Making Behavioural Economics a Qualitative Reality

Customer Surveys: 5 Things You Need To Know

How to Get a Job as an Anthropologist

What is Ethno Mapping?

UX Testing and Cultural Preferences: Are You Designing Webpages with Culture in Mind?

Three Ways to Predict What Consumers Want Before They Know It

Live Blogging with Storify for iPad

May I Have the Envelope, Please? Six Movies Every Qualitative Researcher Can Love

Don't Let Culture Vultures Scuttle Your Strategy

TQR Review of the Week

TQR Community Qualitative Resources on the Internet

Mysteries and Qualitative Research?
Review of Mats Alvesson and Dan Kärreman's Qualitative Research and Theory Development: Mystery as Method
Tom Strong
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Please visit TQR Community's Qualitative Research Resources on the Internet site for more useful sources, sites, and tools including Qualitative Research Web Sites.

New Calls for Conferences and Journals, Training Opportunities, and Funding

Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference - Call for Papers (Deadline: July 15, 2012)

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads III: "Impact: Making a Difference in Intercultural Communication" - Call for Papers (Deadline: November 15, 2012)

Interdisciplinary Symposium: "City and Belonging: Negotiating Mobility and Sense of Place in Urban Discourse" - Call for Papers (Deadline: April 15, 2012)

Discourse and Translation Conference 6: "Interpreting for Relevance" - Call for Abstracts (Deadline: May 31, 2012)

Eastern Sociological Society 2013 Annual Meeting: "Sustainable Communities / Sustainable Lives: Social Change, Social Action, & Social Justice" - Call for Papers (Deadline: November 3, 2013)

Previously Announced Open Calls and Conferences

New and Notable Open Access Qualitative Research Articles

Pensoneau-Conway, S. L., & Toyosaki, S. (2011). Automethodology: Tracing a home for praxis-oriented ethnography. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 10(4), 378-399. Full Text

Rodriguez, K. L., Schwartz, J. L., Lahman, M. K., & Geist, M. R. (2011). Culturally responsive focus groups: Reframing the research experience to focus on participants. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 10(4), 400-417. Full Text

Qualitative Research Employment Opportunities

Associate Director-Pharmaceutical Qualitative (Scientific Search)

Associate Research Scholar (Columbia Law School)

Director of Institutional Research (Fashion Institute of Technology)

Research Associate (The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven)

Proposal Editor - Qualitative Research (TNS)

Qualitative Research Manager (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)

Research Assistant Intern (SC-24403) (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)

Research Scientist (Education Development Center)

Research Strategist (Uncover)

Research Support Associate (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Senior Qualitative Analyst (Findings Group)

Usability Research Coordinator (Stellaservice)

User Experience Researcher (eBay)

User Experience Researcher (Randstad Technologies)

New and Notable Open Access Qualitative Research Articles

Asadi, M. (2011). Constructing global 'wars without end': Vocabularies of motive and the structure of permanent war. Qualitative Sociology Review, 7(3), 44-71. Full Text

Coetzee, J. K. (2011). Narrating memory: Weighing up the testimony. Qualitative Sociology Review, 7(3), 31-43. Full Text

Online Graduate QR Certificate

TQR Fourth Annual Conference

Summer 2012 admission for the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research, a six course, 18 credit hour online program that prepares its graduates to understand and conduct qualitative research, is now open. Courses offered this summer include QRGP 6305 Qualitative Research Design and QRGP 6308 Writing Qualitative Research.

"Qualitative Research and Technology" is the theme for TQR2013! We are seeking paper, panel, and poster presentations. The submissions portal is now open and closes April 30, 2012. Please visit the new conference web site for more details.

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