The Weekly Qualitative Report

	The Weekly Qualitative Report Volume 3, Number 1 - January 4, 2010 http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/WQR/wqr3_1.html
Ronald J. Chenail, Ph.D., Sally St. George, Ph.D., Dan Wulff, Ph.D., Maureen Duffy, Ph.D., Laurie L. Charles, Ph.D., and Karen Wilson Scott, Ph.D., Editors ISSN 1945-2853

The Qualitative Report Inaugural Conference

Our inaugural conference will be held January 8, 2010 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA as we celebrate twenty years of The Qualitative Report. The conference theme is "Academic and Commercial Qualitative Research: State of the Art" so please come join us for a full day of plenaries, workshops, roundtables, paper presentations, and one-on-one paper consultations with the editors of The Qualitative Report. For more information please visit the Conference Web Site.

The Qualitative Report Article of the Week

Action Research in Practice: Issues and Challenges in a Financial Services Case Study

Peter Marshall, Phyl Willson, and Kristy de Salas
University of Tasmania, Australia

Judy McKay
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Qualitative Research in the News

The Weekly Review

Using Millie Thayer's Making Transnational Feminism to Connect Transnational Feminist Theories to Transnational Feminist Practices

Camille Sutton-Brown
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia USA

Qualitative Research Resource of the Week

Qualitative Inquiry: This blog about teaching and mentoring qualitative researchers is sponsored by the multidisciplinary Center for Qualitative Inquiry at Texas Woman's University.

NSU Online Graduate Qualitative Research Certificate Program Begins Second Year

The NSU Graduate Qualitative Research Certificate Program enters its second year as we begin accepting applications for winter 2010 courses. The Certificate's eight three-credit hour, online courses designed to prepare faculty, professional research consultants, and graduate students to understand and practice a variety of qualitative research approaches begins its second year.

For more information regarding this unique online learning experience, please email Ron Chenail at ron@nova.edu.

New Calls for Conferences and Journals and Training Opportunities

Previously Announced Open Calls and Conferences

New and Notable Qualitative Research Articles: Focus Groups

Cloos, P., Allen, C. F., Alvarado, B. E., Zunzunegui, M. V., Simeon, D. T., & Eldemire-Shearer, D. (2010). "Active ageing": A qualitative study in six Caribbean countries. Ageing and Society, 30(1), 79-101. Abstract
Hanlon, C., Whitley, R., Wondimagegn, D., Alem, A., & Prince, M. (2009). Postnatal mental distress in relation to the sociocultural practices of childbirth: An exploratory qualitative study from Ethiopia. Social Science and Medicine, 69(8), 1211-1219. Abstract
Ungar, M., Tutty, L. M., McConnell, S., Barter, K., & Fairholm, J. (2009). What Canadian youth tell us about disclosing abuse. Child Abuse and Neglect, 33(10), 699-708. Abstract
Wagman, J., Baumgartner, J. N., Geary, C. W., Nakyanjo, N., Ddaaki, W. G., Serwadda, D., Gray, R., Nalugoda, F. K., & Wawer, M. J. (2009). Experiences of sexual coercion among adolescent women: Qualitative findings from Rakai District, Uganda. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 24(12), 2073-2095. Abstract
Yamatani, H., Engel, R., & Spjeldnes, S. (2009). Child welfare worker caseload: What's just right? Social Work, 54(4), 361-368. Abstract

Qualitative Research Employment Opportunities

Assistant Professor of Media Studies (The New School)
Assistant or Associate Professor of Education (George Fox University)
Management Research Analyst Senior (Arizona State University)
Marketing Research Coodinator (CMP Medica)
PMR Qualitative Market Analyst (Dendrite International)
Research-Data Analysis Intern (The Young Women's Project)
Research Analyst (Mathematica Policy Research)
Research Analyst (KRC Research)
Research Assistant II (Education Development Center, Inc.)
Research Assistant Internship (Center for Inspired Teaching)
Research Associate (Food Applications) (Solae)
Social Science Research Analyst (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
Social Science Research Intern (Intel)

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