The Qualitative Report Article of the Week

Revitalization of Indigenous Culture in Child Care Centre

Jana Kulhánková
Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

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. Register now to take Qualitative Data Analysis I and Qualitative Research Design starting in May 2011!

The Certificate courses are now available as a non-credit option at a reduced cost. For more information please email Ron Chenail at ron@nova.edu.

Qualitative Research in the News

• Buyer Personas Require Qualitative Research and Contextual Inquiry
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• Smart Focus Groups Follow Three Ps
• Ideas and Theory: The Political Difference
• True GRIT: What the Industry Trends Survey Says for Online Qualitative Research
• Qualitative Research: Validity and Reliability
• Twitter, A Potent Research Tool?
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The How To Essay

The Evolution of a Coding Schema in a Paced Program of Research

Charlene A. Winters, Shirley Cudney, and Therese Sullivan
Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA

Qualitative Research Resource of the Week

The Four Pillars of Great Qualitative Research is the latest free, downloadable web seminar from QualVu. The presentation is focused on helping researchers identify ways they can make it easier for their participants to share "The Truth" with special emphasis on utilizing emerging technologies to accomplish this goal.

The Qualitative Report Third Annual Conference

"Creativity and the Qualitative Researcher" is the theme for TQR 2012 so we will want to explore questions of creativity and the qualitative researcher by featuring works of and on qualitative inquiry that exemplify the ingenuity of this diverse body of work and practitioners.

Our keynote speakers for TQR 2012 will be

• Valerie Janesick, author of "Stretching" Exercises for Qualitative Researchers and Oral History for the Qualitative Researcher: Choreographing the Story, will give the opening plenary address entitled, "The Creative Habit: Curiosity and the Qualitative Researcher"

• Sally St. George and Dan Wulff, TQR Editors, Board Members of The Taos Institute and faculty at the University of Calgary, will give the closing plenary address entitled, "Sugar & Spice"

For more information about TQR 2012, please visit the new conference web site or contact us at tqr@nova.edu.

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

• Graduate Conference - Doing Autoethnography: Here and Now - Call for Papers and/or Extended Abstracts
• The NewMR Virtual Festival and Events - Calls for Participation and Submissions
• University of Surrey Visiting International Fellowship in Social Research Methods 2012 - Call for Applications
• Sixth Annual Grounded Theory Jamboree - Call for Participation
• Critical Qualitative Research Book Series - Call for Manuscripts
• Psychology Learning & Teaching: Special Issue on Teaching Qualitative Methods - Call for Papers
• 24th Annual Primary Care Research Methods and Statistics Conference - Call for Papers
• 17th Qualitative Health Research Conference - Call for Abstracts

Previously Announced Open Calls and Conferences

New and Notable Qualitative Research Articles: General Interest

• Allbutt, H., & Masters, H. (2010). Ethnography and the ethics of undertaking research in different mental healthcare settings. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, 17(3), 210-216. Abstract
• Brown, K. D. (2011). Elevating the role of race in ethnographic research: Navigating race relations in the field. Ethnography and Education, 6(1), 97-111. Abstract
• Jinhee, K. (2011). Korean immigrant mothers' perspectives: The meanings of a Korean heritage language school for their children's American early schooling experiences. Early Childhood Education Journal, 39(2), 133-141. Abstract
• Koivunen, T. (2011). Practicing power and gender in the field: Learning from interview refusals. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 39(6), 682-708. Abstract
• Mazzola, J. J., Schonfeld, I. S., & Spector, P. E. (2011). What qualitative research has taught us about occupational stress. Stress and Health, 27(2), 93-110. Abstract

  

  

Qualitative Research Employment Opportunities

• Assistant Market Research Associate (Goodmind)
• Clinical Research Assistant (Lifespan)
• Database Products - Senior Market Research Manager (Microsoft)
• Institutional Research Analyst (Saint Louis University)
• Marketing/Research Assistant (Sapphire Technologies)
• Qualitative Market Researcher (Robert Half Finance)
• Media Research Manager (Team Detroit)
• Qualitative Project Director (Executive Search Consultants)
• Qualitative Researcher - Entry Level (Cision)
• Research Assistant / Associate in Qualitative Research (University of Bristol)
• Research Assistant - Human Capital (ICF International)
• Research Faculty (George Mason University)
• Senior Analyst, Market Research Welchol (Daiichi Sankyo)
• Senior Research Manager Retail & Shopper Knowledge & Insights (Coca-Cola)
• Specialist, Research and Learning (Save the Children)

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