The Weekly Qualitative Report

The Weekly Qualitative Report

ISSN 1945-2853

Volume 1, Number 7

November 17, 2008

URL: http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/WQR/wqr1_7.html

The Qualitative Report Article of the Week

How to be Happy by Calling for Change: Constructs of Happiness and Meaningfulness Amongst Social Movement Activists

Alice Mills and Jeremy Smith
University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

The Weekly Review

Autoethnography as a Never-Ending Story: A Review of Guyana Diaries: Women’s Lives across Difference

Laurie L. Charlés
University of Massachusetts, Boston

Qualitative Research Resource of the Week

Autoethnography in First-Year Writing Website: Rick Lance Hunter's introductory site can help beginning students become familiar with what autoethnography is and how it can help them become more reflexive writers and researchers.

Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research

Qualitative and Quantitative Research is a Reusable Learning Object developed by the School of Nursing and Academic Division of Midwifery, University of Nottingham to help beginning students discern differences and similarities between the two types of research.

NSU Announces New Online Graduate

Qualitative Research Certificate Program

The NSU Graduate Qualitative Research Certificate Program consists of eight three-credit hour online courses designed to prepare academics, professional research consultants, and graduate students to understand a variety of qualitative research approaches and to conduct qualitative research studies.

New Calls for Conference Papers, Proposals, and Abstracts and Training Opportunities

· The Sixth Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology: Critical Thinking in Health Psychology - Call for Papers

· Women's Studies Quarterly - Special Issue on Citizenship

· The Asia Pacific Journal of Cancer Therapeutics - Call for Papers

New and Notable Qualitative Research Articles

· Da vie, S. S. K. (2008). An autoethnography of accounting knowledge production: Serendipitous and fortuitous choices for understanding our social world. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 19(7), 1054-1079. Abstract

· Hughes, S. A. (2008). Toward “good enough methods” for autoethnography in a graduate education course: Trying to resist the matrix with another promising red pill. Educational Studies, 43(2), 125-143. Abstract

· Karra, N., & Phillips, N. (2008). Researching "back home": International management research as autoethnography. Organizational Research Methods, 11(3), 541-561. Abstract

· Sp ry, T. (2008). Systems of silence: Word/less fragments of race in autoethnography. International Review of Qualitative Research, 1(1), 75-80. Abstract

· Wa ll, S. (2008). Easier said than done: Writing an autoethnography. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 7(1), 38-53. Abstract

Qualitative Research Employment Openings

· Assistant Director, Instructional Strategy (Harvard University)

· Assistant Professor: PK-12 Education/Higher Education Administration (East Tennessee State University)

· Assistant Professor Qualitative Research Methods (George Washington University)

· Clinical Trials Project Director (Westat)

· Director, Qualitative Research – Health (Ipsos Reid Corporation)

· International Monitoring and Evaluation Specialists (Westat)

· Qualitative Research Trainer and Analyst, Consultant (Population Services International)

· Research Associate (Avon)

· Research Analyst/Associate (Westat)

· Research Intern (National Low Income Housing Coalition)

· Strategy, Consumer Insights & Planning (Critical Mass)

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