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The Qualitative Report An online journal dedicated to qualitative research since 1990 |
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New Books by TQR Editors
Laurie L. Charles new book, Intimate Colonialism: Head, Heart, and Body in West African Development Work was published March 2007 by Left Coast Press. The book, an autoethnographic account of her experiences as a Peace Corp volunteer in West Africa, is receiving wonderful reviews.
Laurie's book is part of the new series, Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives, edited by Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis of the University of South Florida, which focuses on narrative representations of qualitative research projects. As series editors Bochner and Ellis seek manuscripts that blur the boundaries between humanities and social sciences and encourage novel and evocative forms of expressing concrete lived experience, including autoethnographic, literary, poetic, artistic, visual, performative, critical, multi-voiced, conversational, and co-constructed representations.
Ron Chenails latest book, Qualitative Research Proposals and Reports: A Guide (Third Edition), co-authored with Dr. Patricia L. Munhall, was just released by Jones and Bartlett Publishers in November 2007. Ron joined Patricia, Director of the International Institute for Human Understanding on this new edition of her popular guide to conceiving and composing qualitative inquiry. Ron and fellow TQR editors, Maureen Duffy, Sally St. George, and Dan Wulff, had contributed chapters to the recently published fourth edition of Patricias leading nursing textbook, Nursing Research: A Qualitative Perspective.
TQR Adds New Managing Editors
The TQR Editors are please to annouce the appointment of six new, talented Managing Editors:
Karen Wilson Scott
Idaho State University
Dr. Karen Wilson Scott is an assistant professor of Human Resource Training and Development at Idaho State University. Scott, who holds Masters and Doctorate from the University of Idaho, conducts research on congruous autonomy (self-directed learning) via qualitative methods, and has presented her findings nationally and internationally. Other research emphases include: learning communities and qualitative research methods.
Paul Wishart
University of Calgary
Paul area of expertise is the methodology of Grounded Theory and its application in program development, practice, and evaluation in the areas of Spirituality and Health. He has a PhD in chemistry with research experience in molecular biology and molecular endocrinology. He also has an MA in Pastoral Psychology and Counseling. Through his PhD and post-doctoral studies, Paul has experienced the patterns and connections of life at the molecular level of DNA; and the rules governing these molecular relationships. His MA studies have provided appreciation and perspective for human interactions and relationships, and some of the rules and stories which govern and inspire them. Paul teaches and practices meditation (Qi Gong) and contemplation (Centering Prayer). It is through practicing and teaching that he has found the importance of breathing, the relaxation it leads to, and the importance of storying, which is a means of sharing and reminiscing that often gets lost in our emphasis on facts. Healthy breathing, speaking, and storying are supported and cultivated through compassion, hospitality, and dialogue.
Valentina Kloosterman
University of Miami
Dr. Valentina Kloosterman is an Assistant Scientist for the Education Evaluation Team in the School of Education at the University of Miami. Among her many responsibilities, she oversees research and evaluation projects, fieldwork, and instrument design; collects and analyzes data; writes and develops materials and guides: presenting at conferences and seminars; and revises curricula, publications, and research-evaluation reports. In addition, Dr. Kloosterman has been teaching graduate courses in education and qualitative research. After obtaining a master's degree in Psychology in 1992 and certification in teaching, she began her teaching career in the Training Department in Early Childhood Education in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1997, she received her doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Connecticut. Over the past fifteen years, Dr. Kloosterman has been teaching and researching in education with a particular emphasis on issues of cognitive development, high level thinking, and diversity. Dr. Kloosterman's expertise in these topics and research methodology represent an alignment of skills needed to conduct research and implement program evaluation. For the past decade, she has taken the lead role and co-directed the research design and implementation of a number of research projects funded by the Spencer Foundation, the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, Dr. Kloosterman has served as editorial reviewer and managing editor, advisor, and committee leader to many national and international associations, such as the American Educational Research Association, the American Evaluation Association, and the National Association for Gifted Children. She is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences and has written extensively on her areas of expertise, especially Hispanic students. She is the editor of a book titled Latino Students in American Schools: Historical and Contemporary Views. Currently, her name has been proposed by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, for the peer reviewer position for the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program, and her research work was recognized with the international Hollingworth Research Award.
Saliha Bava
Houston Galveston Institute
Saliha Bava, Ph.D., associate director of Houston Galveston Institute (HGI), and associate of the Taos Institute, is a core adjunct faculty for the MS Psychology program at Our Lady of the Lake University-Houston and an online adjunct faculty for the Post-graduate Diploma in Discursive Therapies at Massey University, New Zealand. She is on the editorial board of International Journal of Collaborative Practices. She received her MA in Social Work at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay, India and her Ph.D. in Human Development, specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy at Virginia Tech, USA. Using a critical and collaborative perspective, she has been working with organizations, communities, families, couples, and individuals since 1990. She received a leadership award from the City of Houston's Disaster Mental Health Crises Response Team for directing the Mental Health Services at the George R. Brown Katrina Shelter in 2005. She is the training co-chair of the team since 2003. She is the evaluator of HGI's Rolling Conversations Project (Mobile Mental Health Unit) which provides long term therapy for people internally displaced by hurricanes Katrina/Rita. Currently she is co-leading a Gulfton community collaborative of 35 organizations in Houston to design a collaborative mental health model for trauma treatment among immigrants and refugees using a community-based participatory research approach. She researches, writes and presents on Collaborative Therapy, performance theory, trauma, resiliency and disaster, collaborative learning and research in action and research methodologies. She is also interested in improvisation, change, leadership and organizational consultation.
Ruth Neustifter
University of Georgia
Ruth Neustifter is a doctoral student in Child and Family Development, specializing in Marriage and Family Therapy, at the University of Georgia. She is earning a certificate in Qualitative Research as a part of her studies, and also working toward certification as a Sexuality Educator by the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists. Ruth's clinical and research interests include: survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), gender and sex queer communities, and de-medicinalized approaches to addressing sexual intimacy concerns. When she is not presenting sex workshops or spending time at the dog park, she is working on several research projects. These projects include her qualitative dissertation on survivor-couples: nonviolent, intimate relationships in which at least one member has survived IPV.
Patricia Sheldon
The Vine
Patricia is a licensed clinical social worker and licensed marriage and family therapist. She is one of the founding co-directors of the Vine, a collaborative community renewal initiative dedicated to connecting people in ways where need meets resource, providing opportunities for people to develop assets and talents; develop a sense of responsibility; and foster a spirit of belonging to community. She is a founding member of the Community Family Therapy Project where marriage and family therapists use their skills to affect community change. Both projects incorporate research as practice. She has presented nationally on these ideas.
Our new Managing Editors will serve as members of the TQR Leadership Team and Editorial Board and will work closely with the editors and reviewers to mentor and nurture authors who submit papers to the journal.
TQR Adds New Members to Editorial Board
TQR Editors Ron Chenail, Sally St. George, and Dan Wulff welcomed five new members to the Editorial Board of The Qualitative Report.
Mary P. Coppinger, M.S. is Psychotherapist in the WINGS Clinic at University of Louisville, USA. She earned her masters in Counseling from Indiana University Southeast, USA.
Manzurul Hassan, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He earned his doctorate in Social Sciences and Health from Durham University, UK.
Theodoros Iosifides, D.Phil. is Lecturer of Social Research Methods in the Department of Geography at the University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Lesvos, Greece and Lecturer at Hellenic Open University (HOP). He earned his doctorate in Human Geography from Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, UK. He is also the author of two TQR papers--one in 2003 and one in 2005.
Wilson R. Palacios, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in Criminology at University of South Florida, USA. He earned his doctorate in Sociology from University of Miami, USA.
Pierre-Andre Tremblay, Ph.D. is Professeur of Sociologie et Anthropologie in the D‚partement des Sciences Humaines at the Universite du Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC). He earned his doctorate in Anthropologie from Universite Laval, Canada.
New TQR Interns Named for 2006
Editors Ron Chenail, Sally St. George, and Dan Wulff welcomed two new members to the Editorial Board Internship Program of The Qualitative Report.
Kavita Mittapalli, M.S. is a doctoral student in the Ph.D. program in Education at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia USA
Jennifer Spong, M.S. is a doctoral student in the Ph.D. program in Family Therapy at Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Florida USA
Seval Fer's TQR Paper To Be Published as Book Chapter
Seval Fer's 2004 TQR article, Qualitative Evaluation of Emotional Intelligence In-Service Program for Secondary School Teachers, will be reprinted as a book chapter in Emotional Intelligence-Issues and Perspectives, a new book from the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University (ICFAI University).
The ICFAI University is a non-profit organization involved, primarily, in imparting quality education in the area of Management and Finance. ICFAI Books and ICFAI Publications, wings of ICFAI University are involved in publishing digests, magazines, journals and executive reference books for professional students, research scholars, academicians and corporate executives. Their web site is located at http://www.icfaipress.org.
TQR Adds New Members to Editorial Board
TQR Editors Ron Chenail, Sally St. George, and Dan Wulff welcomed thirteen new members to the Editorial Board of The Qualitative Report.
Christos Athanasoulis, Ph.D. is Supervisor of Business Administration doctoral students in Greece for Nottingham Trent University, UK. He earned his doctorate in Marketing from the University of Aston-in-Birmingham, UK.
Barbara Dobson, Ph.D. is a Researcher with Social Research Demonstration Corporation in Canada. She earned her doctorate in Social Policy from Loughborough University, UK.
Rich Hofmann, Ed.D. is Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education and Allied Professions at Miami University, USA. He earned his doctorate in Educational Psychology and Statistics from the State University of New York at Albany, USA.
Diane Ketelle, D.P.A. is Assistant Professor of Education and director of the Administrative Credential Programs at Mills College, USA. She earned her doctorate in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, USA. She is also the author of a 2004 paper in TQR.
Karin Klenke, Ph.D. is Professor of Leadership Studies in the School of Leadership Studies at Regent University, USA. She earned her doctorate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Old Dominion University, USA.
Fernando Lefevre, Ph.D. is Professor of Public Health in the Department of Practice in Public Health at Universidade de San Paulo, Brazil. He earned his doctorate in Public Health at Universidade de San Paulo, Brazil. He is also the author of a 2004 paper in TQR.
Nor Azilah Ngah, Ph.D. is Lecturer in the Center for Instructional Technology and Multimedia at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Malaysia. She earned her doctorate in Educational Computing from Purdue University, USA.
Tomofumi Oka, Ph.D. is Professor of Social Work with the Department of Social Services at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. He earned his doctorate from the Cardiff School of Social Sciences at the University of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Sandra R. Pace, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Northcentral University, USA and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Fort Lewis College, USA. She earned her doctorate in Educational/Developmental Psychology from Capella University, USA.
Lalita Rajasingham, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Communications Studies with the School of Information Management at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. She earned her doctorate in Communications from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Amardo Rodriguez, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University. He earned his doctorate in Communication from Howard University, USA. He also is the author of a 2002 paper in TQR.
Shankar Sankaran, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Graduate College of Management and director of the College of Action Research at Southern Cross University, Australia. He earned his doctorate in Business and Management from the University of South Australia.
Susan Swim, Ph.D. is Adjunct Faculty with Pepperdine University, USA, Part-time Faculty with Loma Linda University, USA, and Online Faculty with the Taos Institute, USA. She earned her doctorate in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate Center and Research Institute.
Number One on Google
The TQR home page is the number one qualitative research site according to Google, the leading search engine on the Internet. People searching Google for qualitative research or "qualitative research" will produce 29,300,000 and 3,390,000 web pages respectively and of all these sites, TQR is the first qualitative research page returned for either search.
TQR Editorial Leadership Team to Present at 2006 QUIG
Editors Ron Chenail, Sally St. George, Dan Wulff; Managing Editors Maureen Duffy, Martha Laughlin, Kate Warner; and Production Editor Tarmeen Sahni will make a presentation at the 2006 Conference of Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies (QUIG) to be held January 6-8 2006 at the University of Georgia. The title of their panel is Mentoring Qualitative Research Authors Globally: The Qualitative Report Experience. During their talk they will discuss their philosophy of author development; challenges working worldwide; solutions for managing differences; manuscript development strategies; authors feedback; and the collective global futures of TQR and qualitative researchers. More information regarding the 2006 QUIG meeting can be found at their web site.
New Search Page
The TQR Search Page has been fully revised to increase its accuracy and speed of returns.
Open Society Initiative Awards Grant to The Qualitative Report
The Open Society Initiative (OSI) awarded a $2,250 Grant for Open Access Journals to The Qualitative Report (TQR) for our support of research by authors from developing and transition countries.
This OSI grants program was inspired by the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative and builds upon their successful pilot project in 2002 which provided grants to 34 open access journals. For the 2004 program, OSI provided $50,000 in funding to support the publication in open access scholarly journals of articles by authors residing and working in any of the 67 countries where the Soros foundations network is active. In response to the call for applications OSI received proposals from over 70 open access journals requesting funding to cover the article processing costs for articles that are accepted for publication. TQRs winning application demonstrated need based upon nine accepted papers from thirteen authors residing in Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, and Turkey.
TQR has been an open access journal since 1990 and is one of 287 organizations to sign the Budapest Open Access Initiative in support of free and unrestricted access to quality scholarly writing for readers worldwide. TQR is also one of the 331 publications listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, which aims to be a comprehensive source for all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.
TQR Announces New Managing Editors
Maureen Duffy, Ph.D., Martha Laughlin, Ph.D., and Kate Warner, Ph.D. were named the new Managing Editors of The Qualitative Report. As managing editors they will work with authors and reviewers in the unique manuscript development process employed by TQR.
The three long-time members of TQR's Editorial Board have considerable and varied experiences in qualitative inquiry:
Martha Laughlin is an associate professor and director of clinical training in the Family Therapy Masters Program at Valdosta State University in Georgia. Her interests include Batesonian systems theory, Ericksonian hypnosis and therapy, and qualitative research. She has conducted qualitative research into the ways students learn to think creatively in family therapy. She also published a paper with TQR back in 1995 entitled "The Narcissistic Researcher: A Personal View."
Kate Warner is director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Valdosta State University in Georgia, where she teaches practica and supervises graduate students. She is a Americna Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Clinical Member and a licensed Marriage and Family therapist in Georgia and Florida. In addition to her interest in qualitative research, Dr. Warner has research interests in the area of home-based therapy and restorative justice.
Maureen Duffy is an associate professor and program director and chair of the Counseling Department at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida. Her research interests include the experiences of mothers in prison who attempt to maintain contact with their children, mothers whose children have been involuntarily removed from their custody, and clinical outcome effectiveness. She published a paper with TQR, "Sensemaking: A Collaborative Inquiry Approach to 'Doing' Learning," in 1995. Her recent publications are in the areas of qualitative strategies in couples and family assessment, affirmative ethics in clinical practice, and a global perspective on teen gangs. She is also interested in applying research findings in neuroscience to clinical mental health practice and in integrating attachment theory and systems theory.
Ron Chenail Interview Published
A new interview with Ron Chenail, TQR Co-Editor, entitled "'The Future Is Here; It Is Just Not Widely Distributed Yet'--Adapted from William Gibson: Ron Chenail in Conversation with Marilyn Lichtman" was published in the September 2004 issue of FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research.Premier Family Studies Journal Adopts TQR Technology Process
Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies, one of the premier journals of family studies published by Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the National Council on Family Relations, has adopted the system by which TQR uses Microsoft Words Track Changes and Comments features to manage its manuscript development process (see A Guide for TQR Authors for more information on this approach). Family Relations Editor, Joyce Arditti, Ph.D., will use this technology with authors whose work has been conditionally accepted with the journal. Joyce is also an author of a 2002 TQR paper, " Doing Family Research at the Jail: Reflections of a Prison Widow."
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