The Qualitative Report Article of the Week

The Analysis of an Unsuccessful Novice Teacher's Induction Experiences: A Case Study Presented Through Layered Account

Sara Winstead Fry
Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA

NSU Graduate QR Certificate Online

Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research is a six course, 18 credit hour online program that prepares its graduates to conduct basic and applied qualitative research. Admission for Winter Courses is now open.

Qualitative Research in the News

• Computers That Trade on the News
• Art and Ethnography in France
• Mythbusters: Corporate Ethnography and the Giant Green Button
• Top 10 - Projective Techniques
• How to Conduct Qualitative Market Research
• Understanding Communities through Ethnography: An Interview Dhiren Shingadia
• Interactive Touch-Screen Technology, Participatory Design, and "Getting It"…REVISITED
• Researcher Follows Shooting Victims' Aftermath
• The New Age of Predictive Analysis

How To Article

Utilizing a New Graphical Elicitation Technique to Collect Emotional Narratives Describing Disease Trajectories

Marianne K. Thygesen, Birthe D. Pedersen, Jakob Kragstrup, Lis Wagner, and Ole Mogensen
University of Southern Denmark

Qualitative Research Resource of the Week

Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) is a site devoted to the linguistic topic of RST which raises issues about communication, semantics, and especially the nature of the coherence of texts. The site is also a resource for those who would like to learn, use, understand, refute, supersede, admire, or question RST

The Qualitative Report Second Annual Conference

The TQR Second Annual Conference will be held January 7 and 8, 2011 at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA. Registration closed December 24th, but we will share highlights of the conference in The Weekly Qualitative Report over the coming weeks. The TQR Editorial Board Annual Meeting will take place immediately following the conference. If you have any suggestions or requests regarding the content, format, or review process of the journal that you would like considered at the Editorial Board meeting, please send a message to TQR's Managing Editor, Robin Cooper, at robicoop@nova.edu. For more information about the conference, please visit the Conference Home Page for more information! Questions regarding the conference can be sent to tqr@nova.edu.

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

• 24th Annual Primary Care Research Methods and Statistics Conference - Call for Papers
• Association for Qualitative Research Conference 2011 - Call for Papers
• International Institute for Qualitative Methodology 11th Annual Thinking Qualitatively Workshop Conference - Call for Posters
• 2011 Mixed Methods International Conference - Call for Abstracts
• The Seventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry - Last Call for Abstracts

Previously Announced Open Calls and Conferences

New and Notable Qualitative Research Articles: General Interest

• Beverland, M., & Lindgreen, A. (2010). What makes a good case study? A positivist review of qualitative case research published in Industrial Marketing Management, 1971-2006. Industrial Marketing Management, 39(1), 59-63. Abstract
• Flint, T. K. (2010). Making meaning together: Buddy reading in a first grade classroom. Early Childhood Education Journal, 38(4), 289-297. Abstract
• McKeown, J., Clarke, A., Ingleton, C., & Repper, J. (2010). Actively involving people with dementia in qualitative research. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 19(13-14), 1935-1943. Full Text
• Piana, N., Maldonato, A., Bloise, D., Carboni, L., Careddu, G., Fraticelli, E., Mereu, L., & Romani, G. (2010). The narrative-autobiographical approach in the group education of adolescents with diabetes: A qualitative research on its effects. Patient Education and Counseling, 80(1), 56-63. Abstract
• Smithson, J., Garside, R., & Pearson, M. (2010). Barriers to, and facilitators of, the prevention of unintentional injury in children in the home: A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research. Injury Prevention. Advance online publication. Full Text

Qualitative Research Employment Opportunities

• Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
• Analyst I, Institutional Research (Salt Lake Community College)
• Assistant Professor - Sociology (Hunter College, CUNY)
• Assistant Professor, Ethnography (California College of the Arts)
• Assistant or Associate Professor - Social Work (Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work) (College of Staten Island of the City University of New York)
• Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Eastern Kentucky University)
• Anthropology Tutoring/Teaching (Wyzant Tutoring)
• Director of Institutional Research (University of Washington Bothell)
• Director, Qualitative Research (Kelton Research)
• Qualitative Research Intern (Population Services International)
• Qualitative Research and Recruitment Intern (New York)
• Research Assistant (Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo)
• Research Analyst / Institutional Research & Planning Department (Langston University)
• Senior Market Analyst, Research (Cox Communications)

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