Call for New Resources for Revised Compendium

TQR Editor-in-Chief Ron Chenail announced work on the new edition of A Compendium of Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research Resources, a publication in the TQR Qualitative Research Resource Series, is under way and he is asking authors to submit information regarding their new articles, chapters, books, and web-based resources so these new sources can be added to the 2013 edition. He is also asking folks who have read a helpful, new source on teaching or learning qualitative research, mixed-methods, or action/appreciative inquiry to also submit that information. Please send all notes on suggested additions to Ron Chenail (ron@nova.edu). Everyone submitting suggestions will be acknowledged in the new edition.

(Posted May 6, 2013)

TQR Names New Assistant Editor

We at TQR are delighted to announce our newest TQR Assistant Editor:

Stephanie Fleming is a student in the Qualitative Research Graduate Certificate program at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She has a Master of Arts in Writing and a Juris Doctorate Degree. She works as a freelance editor, and has experience editing many types of writing including: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, technical and academic writing. She has also worked as a writing tutor in the Office of Academic Services at NSU's Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, and is a CRLA Level I certified tutor. Her main interest is in studying the teaching/tutoring methods for ESL (English as a Second Language) students, and she has focused her qualitative research studies around this interest.

(Posted April 22, 2013)

TQR Passes 6,500 Subscribers

Adam Rosenthal, TQR Community Coordinator, reported this week the number of subscribers to The Qualitative Report topped the 6,500 mark. He also noted the total of TQR Community social media followers on Facebook and Twitter have passed 2,700.

(Posted April 8, 2013)

TQR Names New Board Member

We at TQR are delighted to announce our newest member of the TQR Editorial Advisory Board

Raji Swaminathan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Community Studies in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Currently, she also serves as Director of the Urban Education Doctoral Program. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University. Her areas of teaching and research are creative qualitative research, urban education and leadership, alternative education and gender and education. Currently she is working on two collaborative projects that build leadership capacity for aspiring school leaders besides researching creativity in qualitative inquiry.

(Posted March 11, 2013)

TQR Names New Board Member

We at TQR are delighted to announce our newest member of the TQR Editorial Advisory Board

Patricia Alvarez McHatton is Professor and Chair of the Inclusive Education Department at Kennesaw State University. Her research interests include teacher education with an emphasis on preparing culturally competent educators, collaboration, and school experiences of diverse youth and families. Her work centers on school-university-community partnerships. A major emphasis of her work is engaging disenfranchised youth in participatory action research for social change and arts-based research as a method for making research findings accessible to the communities in which it is undertaken. She is active in several professional organizations having served as President for both the Division for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners (DDEL) and the Teacher Education Division (TED) of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC).

(Posted February 18, 2013)

TQR Names New Board Member

We at TQR are delighted to announce our newest member of the TQR Editorial Advisory Board

C. Amelia Davis, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Educational Research in the Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading at Georgia Southern University, where she teaches educational research methods and qualitative research to graduate students. Amelia's research focuses on adult education, particularly youths transitioning as adult learners and assumptions and knowledge claims made regarding adult basic education student populations. Her interest in qualitative research methodology includes narrative, ethnography, performance ethnography, and arts-based research. In her own work, Amelia experiments with alternative forms of re-representation including ethnodrama and poetic transcription.

(Posted February 11, 2013)

TQR Board Member Khawla Abu-Baker Publishes Two New Papers

TQR Board Member and faculty with the Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Israel and Al-Qasemi Academy - Academic College for Education, Bafa Al Garbeia, Israel, Khawla Abu-Baker has announced the publication of her two latest papers:

Psycho-social Reactions of Palestinian Families in Israel and the West Bank Following War-related Losses
Israel Journal of Psychiatry & Related Sciences
2012, 49(3), 211-218

Arab Parents' Reactions to Child Sexual Abuse: A Review of Clinical Records
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
2013, 22(1), 52-71

For more information on these papers, please email Dr. Abu-Baker at khawla.abubaker@gmail.com.

(Posted February 6, 2013)

TQR Board Member Johnny Saldaņa Seeks Recommendations for Outstanding Journal Articles

Sage Publications wants to put up a companion website for my new book that has links to outstanding qualitative research articles from various disciplines (but they MUST be from journals published by Sage, like Field Methods, Qualitative Inquiry, Qualitative Health Research, etc.).

What, to you, are at least 1 to 3 outstanding qualitative research articles you've read (or written!--don't be shy!) that you feel merit a listing on the reference web page? What qualitative research articles do you feel are worth anyone in qualitative research reading, regardless of discipline? Remember: they MUST be from journals published by Sage.

If you can send me any bibliographic info (the more complete the better) about your recommended article(s), I'd appreciate your help with this project. I'm looking for a wide range of genres and topics, from health care to psychology, from ethnography to grounded theory, from mixed methods to arts-based research. Either post to this discussion, or send the info to: Johnny.Saldana@asu.edu.

Thanks!

Johnny Saldaņa
Evelyn Smith Professor
Arizona State University

(Posted February 4, 2013)

TQR Names Newest Board and Apprenticeship Program Members

We at TQR are delighted to announce our newest members of the TQR Editorial Advisory Board and Apprenticeship Program

Editorial Board

Dr. Victoria Palmer has worked at the Primary Care Research Unit, The University of Melbourne since completion of her PhD in 2007. Her thesis examined the role of moral protest and cooperation in the building of ethical communities with particular attention to transformative resistance. Prior to this she taught in the humanities and worked on a refugees and education project. She has experience in the design and conduct of participatory action research based projects in primary health care settings and is trained in qualitative research methods for design and analysis. Victoria is a multiperspectival researcher, her theoretical knowledge and interests span: the application of ethical theories to practical problems, the use of narrative theory for analysis and theories of embodiment. Her current responsibilities include: principal investigator for a large study to test the effectiveness of experience based co-design methodology to optimise community mental health services for psychosocial recovery, responsibility for a photo-elicitation pilot project to explore cross cultural experiences of depression, and investigator role to gather and explore patient views of a prediction tool to identify those at-risk of poor outcomes from depression as part of a 10 year longitudinal study into depression (diamond).

Aimee Galick, PhD(c) is a doctoral candidate at Loma Linda University. She is a Feminist Martial and Family Therapist with interest in how the larger social context affects the intersection of health and families. Her main interest in qualitative research comes from a desire to know more about the process of therapy and the therapists and people engaged in the process. She highly values qualitative research as a means to gain a deeper, more complex understanding of relationships and therapy. Most of her research has centered on how contextual influences such as gender and culture affect intimate relationships, the process of therapy, and experiences with illness. She is passionate about mutuality in relationships characterized by mutual attunement, mutual influence, shared relational responsibility, and shared vulnerability. She also administrates a blog, equalcouples.com, to disseminate information to the public on this topic.

Apprenticeship Program

Carmen M. Cusack is a doctoral student in Criminal Justice at Nova Southeastern University (NSU). She holds a BA and a JD from Florida International University. Her dissertation project, chaired by Dr. Lenore Walker, focuses on nonconsensual insemination and intimate partner violence among Planned Parenthood patients. She is an instructor of Theory of Child Protection, Investigation, and Advocacy at NSU.

(Posted February 4, 2013)

TQR Names New Board Member

We at TQR are delighted to announce our newest member of the TQR Editorial Advisory Board

Carlene Boucher, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Health Services Management in the School of Management at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research areas include leadership, difference and organization, gender and work, human resource management, and change management. She is also interested in innovative qualitative research methods such as autoethnography, action research, collaborative research and alternative forms for representing research findings. She serves on the editorial committees of Qualitative Research Journal and Creative Approaches to Research.

(Posted January 21, 2013)

New TQR Feature: Research Rookies

We want to hear from students and researchers new to qualitative research making their first discoveries about their work and themselves. We also want experienced researchers sharing their "origin" stories as well as accounts of experienced researchers experiencing something new in their evolving research experiences. We conceive these stories to be expressed in a variety of media: (a) Written Essays (approximately 2,000 words in length), (b) Image Essays (10 photos/drawings accompanied by approximately 1,000 words of commentary), and (c) Videos / YouTube Essays (10-minute maximum in duration accompanied by approximately 1,000 words of commentary). To submit your Research Rookies contribution, please go to the Manuacript Submission Page and upload tour file.

(Posted January 14, 2013)

TQR Names New Board Member

We at TQR are delighted to announce our newest member of the TQR Editorial Advisory Board

James Butler III, DrPH, MEd is an Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Community Health and is an Associate Director of the Maryland Center for Health Equity in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland. Dr. Butler, trained as a behavioral scientist, has more than 17 years of experience conducting qualitative research (e.g., focus groups, in-depth interviewing, ethnography and participant observation). Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of a National Cancer Institute-funded Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K01). In this capacity, Dr. Butler conducts qualitative research (focus groups and in-depth interviews) that examines the smoking cessation needs of African American public housing residents and the requisite strategies for engaging the residents in smoking cessation research. Additionally, this research is anchored in an ecological framework that incorporates individual, social structure and environmental influences in understanding and eliminating tobacco-related health disparities. Further, he is dedicated to building ongoing and permanent relationships with community members for the purpose of designing and conducting interventions where the community participates fully in all aspects of the research process.

(Posted January 14, 2013)

TQR Names New Apprentices

We at TQR are delighted to announce our newest members for our TQR Apprenticeship Program.

Jean Providence Nzabonimpa is a PhD student at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. In 2009, he received his master's degree in social and educational research methods from Kigali Institute of Education, Rwanda, where he also graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Education in 2004. In 2008 and 2009, Jean Providence also received, respectively, his honors Bachelor and Master degrees in Linguistics with Specialisation in Translation Studies from the University of South Africa. Though his academic training prepared him for qualitative research, he embarked on mixed methods research at postgraduate level without giving up his natural propensity for qualitative research. Currently he is specializing in Social Science Methods at doctoral level and he is investigating methods effects in a mixed method study of gendered choices in Rwandan secondary schools. His PhD research project investigates the dynamics and subtleties involved in mixing qualitative and quantitative data which have been concurrently and sequentially collected. Gradually a Tutorial Assistant and a Research Assistant at the Kigali Institute of Education, a Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Specialist at Population Services International in Rwanda, Jean Providence needs exposure to international best practices in qualitative research for improved contribution in this field. His interests lie in the social, educational and behavioural research. He is fascinated by qualitative research and the use of mixed methods as an alternative "paradigm" in social science research methods. Importantly, Jean Providence is thrilled by this opportunity to be an editorial TQR Apprentice and expects to maximize this excellent learning experience.

Tiffany Rice is a social work PhD candidate at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. Tiffany's work with qualitative research began during her undergraduate years. She credits The Qualitative Report with being one of the earliest resources she turned to during her time as a novice researcher. She currently works as a research associate, specializing in qualitative research, at a child welfare advocacy firm. Tiffany's research interests include topics of race, gender, sexual orientation, health disparities and interpersonal violence.

(Posted January 7, 2013)

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