TQR Volume 17 Article 89

TQR Volume 17 Article 90

Interrelated Processes toward Quality of Life in Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Grounded Theory
Miranda Tsonis
British Columbia Cancer Agency, British Columbia, Canada
Janette McDougall
Thames Valley Children's Centre, Ontario, Canada
Angela Mandich and Jennifer Irwin
Western University, Ontario Canada

Fostering Change in Organizational Culture Using a Critical Ethnographic Approach
Rosemary A. Brander, Margo Paterson, and Yolande E. Chan
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Qualitative Research News and Notes

TQR Editor-in-Chief Ron Chenail to Give Keynote Address at the 9th University of Missouri-St. Louis Qualitative Research Conference (QuaRC)

TQR Editor-in-Chief Ron Chenail Named to Contemporary Family Therapy Editorial Board

Announcement of Harry F. Wolcott's Passing

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Researchers in the Lab, Ready for Their Close-Up

How the iPhone Changed the Way We Do Ethnography: A Methodological Note

Digital for Real Life: Five Highlights from the 11th Annual Design Research Conference

Greenbook's GRIT Sneak Peek: Continued Mainstreaming of Communities, Social, Mobile

Notes from the Field: Design Observations in Uganda

Qualitative Research Methods: The Wheel of Science

Brand Genetics Blog: Do Focus Group Kill Innovation?

Research! How Researchers Gain Your Trust

Greenbook Blog: Does Big Data Need to Become Small Data?

Focus Groups - A Marketing Must Part 1: What's It All About

Research Live: Making Mobile Research More Transparent

Laura Sefton on Getting Started with Atlas.ti Qualitative Analysis Software

Weft QDA: A Free Qualitative Analysis Software Application

Internet Resource of the Week

Qualitative Research Resources on the Internet

Resources for Research Methods Teachers and Supervisors
Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life
University of Manchester

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

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

Workshop: "Developing Methods for the Microanalysis of Online Data" - Call for Participants (Deadline: November 16, 2012)

The 2013 Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research - Call for Applicants (Deadline: November 20, 2012)

The 9th University of Missouri-St. Louis Qualitative Research Conference (QuaRC): "Situated Inquiry: Community, Context and the Researcher" - Call for Proposals (Deadline: December 3, 2012)

Cultural Studies--Critical Methodologies (CSCM) Special Issue: "Critical Arts-Based Inquiry: The Pedagogy and Performance of a Radical Ethical Aesthetic" - Call for Manuscripts (Deadline: December 31, 2012)

10th Annual Action Research Conference: "Developing Our Capacity for Action Research for Inquiry Through Dialogues That Matter" - Call for Proposals (Deadline: January 31, 2013)

Sense Publishers: Teaching Gender Series - Call for Book Proposals (Deadline: Open)

Taos Institute WorldShare Books - Call for Submissions (Deadline: Open)

Previously Announced Open Calls and Conferences

Online Graduate QR Certificate

TQR Fourth Annual Conference

Winter 2013 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 winter are QRGP 6301 Qualitative Data Collection, QRGP 6303 Qualitative Data Analysis II, and QRGP 6308 Writing Qualitative Research. Classes begin January 7, 2013.

Registration for TQR2013 is now open! "Qualitative Research and Technology" is the theme for the two-day conference. The opening plenary address to be given by Dr. Sharlene Janice Nagy Hesse-Biber and Dr. Natalie Hanson will deliver the closing plenary speech. TQR Editor-in-Chief Ron Chenail will conduct a three-hour workshop entitled, "Mobile Qualitative Research: Exploring Clouds and Apps." Please visit the new conference web site for more details.

Qualitative Research Employment Opportunities

Assistant Director of Assessment (University of St. Francis)

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (#495749) - Educational Leadership (Lamar University)

Associate Vice Provost of Institutional Research (University of Alaska Anchorage)

Design Researcher (CKS Consulting)

Director, Research and Analytics (Washington Post)

Education Policy Researcher (Rand)

Institutional Strategy Research Associate (Janus Capital Group)

Manager, Research (NBC)

Market Research Manager (Quintiles Transnational)

Professional Research Assistant (University of Colorado Denver)

Program Review & Research Manager (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Research Assistant (Loyola Marymount University)

Senior Researcher (Razorfish)

UX Researcher (Eagan, MN)

The TQR Community of Nova Southeastern University publishes The Qualitative Report, a peer-reviewed, weekly open access journal. Subscription to TQR is free-of-charge. To unsubscribe please email your request to TQR at tqr@nova.edu.

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The Qualitative Report
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