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Beata Glinka (Jagiellonian University – PL)
Beata Glinka (prof. dr hab.) is a full professor and head of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Management Systems at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on entrepreneurship and organization theory. In her studies she uses mainly qualitative methods. For her research she received several awards (including Fulbright Foundation Senior Researcher Award and The Polish Science Foundation award for young scientists).
Cheryl N. Poth (University of Alberta – CA)
Cheryl Poth, PhD is a professor, award-winning instructor, and author at the Centre for Research and Applied Measurement and Evaluation in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta in Canada. She is co-founder and lead of the Alberta Community and Clinical Evaluation and Research Team and serves as the methodologist on several cross-disciplinary research teams. Her specific research interests include enhancing research quality and collaborative research teams in the fields of education and the health sciences. She co-authored the 4th edition of Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design (2017, Sage) with John Creswell and recently released the 5th edition (2024, Sage). She served as editor of The SAGE Handbook of Mixed Methods Research Design (2023, Sage).
David Williamson Shaffer (University of Wisconsin-Madison – US)
David Williamson Shaffer is the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics and the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Data Philosopher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. His M.S. and Ph.D. are from the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and before coming to the University of Wisconsin, he was a teacher, teacher-trainer, curriculum developer, and game designer. Professor Shaffer’s current work focuses on merging statistical and qualitative methods to construct fair models of complex and collaborative human activity. He has authored more than 250 publications with over 100 co-authors, including How Computer Games Help Children Learn and Quantitative Ethnography.
Elaine Keane (University of Galway – IE)
Professor Elaine Keane, PhD, is Professor and Head of the Discipline of Education in the School of Education at the University of Galway, Ireland. Her research focuses on social class and education, teacher diversity, and constructivist grounded theory (CGT) and she has published widely and has led national and international projects in these areas. A member of the International Association of Grounded Theorists, Elaine is lead editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Constructivist Grounded Theory in Educational Research (Routledge, 2025) (co-editor, Robert Thornberg) and was also lead editor of the 2023 Routledge book about diversifying the teaching profession. She is Co-Editor of Irish Educational Studies, serves on the Editorial Board of Teaching in Higher Education, is Inaugural Chair of the National Initial Teacher Education Diversity Network and Convenor of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) Special Interest Group on Teacher Diversity Research.
Floretta Boonzaier (University of Cape Town – ZA)
Floretta Boonzaier is Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Co-Director of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa. She is noted for her work in feminist, critical qualitative and decolonial psychologies, her writing on intersectional subjectivities and on gendered and sexual violence. She is also noted for her expertise in qualitative methodologies, specifically in narrative, decolonial, feminist and participatory approaches. She has published widely and her selected recent publications include the book Pan-Africanism and Psychology in Decolonial Times (authored with Kessi and Gekeler) published by Springer (2022); Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence (with Gottzén & Bornholt) published by Routledge (2020) and Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology (with van Niekerk) published by Springer (2019). She is past president of the Psychological Society of South Africa, is current Associate Editor for the South African Journal of Science and has served on a number of journal editorial boards.
Fred Milacci, Jennifer Smith Ramey and Fred Volk (Liberty University and Horizon Behavioral Health – US)
Dr. Fred Milacci, Dr. Jennifer Smith Ramey, and Dr. Fred Volk are experienced researchers who specialize in the utilization of qualitative research methods focused on community health, substance misuse, mental health, and program evaluation. Their collaborative expertise has been featured in prestigious journals such as Global Implementation Research and Applications and Drug Court Review, notably and uniquely advancing the fields of implementation science and treatment courts through qualitative research and program evaluation. Dr. Milacci’s decades-long qualitative research explores cultural and human dynamics in community and behavioral health settings, offering key insights that impact social outcomes in education and behavioral health, earning him accolades for his work. Dr. Smith Ramey excels in program development with a focus on qualitative methods and community engagement. Her recent publication work emphasizes her decades of experience in cross-sector collaboration for community organizations.
Krzysztof Konecki (University of Lodz – PL)
The author is a professor of sociology and works at the Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz. His interests lie in qualitative sociology, sociology of interaction, symbolic interactionism, sociology of body, methodology of social sciences, visual sociology, communication and intercultural management, organizational culture and management, and contemplative sociology. He is the editor-in-chief of Qualitative Sociology Review and he is a member of the Board of Polish Sociological Association and is the member of the Committee of Sociology of the Polish Academy of Science; he was also a member of the Executive Committee of European Sociological Association.
Arceli Rosario, PhD, is the president of the Adventist University of the Philippines. She served as a high school principal, vice president for academic affairs, and college president. She has taught courses and conducted training in research, educational administration, and language teaching; published studies in leadership and teaching; and is a co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in the Asian Context. She was one of the founders of the Asian Qualitative Research Association and is the incumbent president of the Adventist Human-Subject Research Association in the Southern Asia-Pacific Division.
Johnny Saldaña is Professor Emeritus from Arizona State University’s School of Film, Dance, and Theatre. He is the author of Longitudinal Qualitative Research: Analyzing Change through Time, Fundamentals of Qualitative Research, The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers, Thinking Qualitatively: Methods of Mind, Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage, Writing Qualitatively: The Selected Works of Johnny Saldaña, co-author with the late Miles and Huberman for Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook, and co-author with Matt Omasta for Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life. Saldaña’s qualitative methods works have been cited and referenced in more than 30,000 research studies conducted in over 135 countries.
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is former United Nations Under- Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women. She was awarded a doctorate in Technology and Education from Warwick University. She has authored several scholarly and other opinion pieces. A Hauser Leader at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Centre for Public Leadership. She became a Member of Parliament, Deputy Minister of Department of Trade and Industry, Minister of Minerals and Energy, and finally as Deputy President of South Africa in 2005 to 2008. Dr Mlambo-Ngcuka worked tirelessly on programmes and policies to reduce inequality. As the head of the UNwomen, she has been a global advocate for women and girls. She established initiatives such as the HeForShe for men and boys to address gender Equality. She also successfully mobilized an historic $40 billion USD for women and girls around the world.
Uwe Flick is Senior Professor of Qualitative Research in Social Science and Education at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. As a trained psychologist and sociologist and after completing his PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin, he held positions as Professor at Technical University Berlin (psychology), Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin (nursing and social work research), and at the University of Vienna, Austria (political sciences). His main research interests are qualitative methods, social representations in the fields of individual and public health, vulnerability in fields like youth homelessness or (forced) migration. He is author of An Introduction to Qualitative Research (7th ed, 2023, Sage), Doing Interview Research (2022, Sage), Introducing Research Methodology (3rd ed, 2020, Sage), Doing Grounded Theory (2018, Sage) and editor of several SAGE Handbooks (of Qualitative Data Analysis, 2014; of Qualitative Data Collection, 2018; and of Qualitative Research Design, 2022). In 2019, Uwe Flick received the Lifetime Award in Qualitative Inquiry at the 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. His current research is on peer relations of chronically ill young adults and their role in coping with the diseases and their impact on everyday lives under chronical conditions.
Sophie Woodward is a Professor in Sociology at the University of Manchester where she carries out research into material culture, everyday lives and consumption with a particular focus on fashion and clothing. She is the author of five books on feminism (such as Birth and Death, 2019 with Kath Woodward), material culture (such as Blue Jeans: the art of the Ordinary, 2012 with Daniel Miller), fashion (including Why Women Wear What they Wear, 2007) and methods and has a particular interest in creative and object-based methods, as seen in her most recent book Material Methods (2019) and in her role as Co-Investigator for the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) where she leads on creative methods. She is currently carrying out writing up qualitative research into things people keep in the home but are no longer using (dormant things) that are stashed away in attics. The research is based upon mixed qualitative methods, including ethnographically informed methods, sketching, visual methods, object interviews and follow the thing methods.
Anthony Vincent Fernandez is Assistant Professor of Applied Philosophy in the Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics and the Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark. After completing his PhD in philosophy, he held positions at Dalhousie University, Kent State University, and University of Oxford. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology and book review editor for Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. His research focuses on the challenges of applying phenomenology in fields outside of philosophy, including psychiatry, psychology, and nursing. Currently, he is collaborating with qualitative researchers to develop new ways of integrating philosophical phenomenology and qualitative methodology.
Dr. Anna CohenMiller is an arts-based qualitative research methodologist and award-winning educator who examines issues of equity and inclusion in higher education in Kazakhstan and internationally. She specializes in addressing issues of gender in education and on improving teaching and learning across educational contexts. Dr. CohenMiller has a background in spearheading and fostering international collaboration across interdisciplinary, grant-funded teams and community initiatives, such as Co-Founding Director of The Consortium of Gender Scholars (Kazakhstan, www.gen-con.org) leading a partnership with the Asian Qualitative Research Association; Founder of The Motherscholar Project (www.motherscholar.org), and founding and leading the editorship of Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy (www.journaldialogue.org). Dr. CohenMiller regularly speaks at local and international venues about qualitative research including on topics of social justice, innovation, and demystifying research practices.
Caroline is a registered nurse, midwife and health visitor and has held a number of academic posts in prestigious universities in the UK. Currently she is Professor of Gender Based Violence at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research work is broadly within the scope of addressing inequalities and more specifically on issues of violence against women. She is the founder of the Risk, Abuse and Violence (RAV) research programme at the University of Birmingham: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/nursing/research/rav.aspx Caroline is a keen research methodologist in the field of qualitative research and has led numerous projects involving qualitative approaches. She is a prolific writer and has published widely in interdisciplinary journals, along with four edited/authored books. Her publications reflect her interest in a range of empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives relevant to qualitative research. A particular interest is on participatory approaches and specifically, the involvement of co-researchers in sensitive issues research. For several years she has grappled with the complexities of conducting high quality qualitative studies that incorporate a co-research design. She has put forward a number of strategies for ensuring that this is undertaken safely and ethically.
Edgaras Ščiglinskas is a Head of the Multimedia Laboratory at the Faculty of Informatics, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Edgaras has received his Ph.D. in Informatics. He is focusing on computer graphics, development of VR and AR applications, interactive applications and serious games. In his research work, Edgaras is focusing on analysis of virtual stimuli and human emotions, construction of predictive models.
Judita Kasperiuniene is an Associate Professor and Head of the System Analysis Department at the Faculty of Informatics, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Judita received her Ph.D. in Education (qualitative study) and conducted a multidisciplinary Post-Doctoral research (mixed methods study). She has a postgraduate degree in technology-enhanced learning (University of Liege, Belgium) and an MSc in information technologies (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania). In her work, Judita is currently focusing on issues of VR/AR applications in social settings, designing serious games, online media discourses, identity construction in mediated environments, and intersections of education, communication, and new technologies. Recently, Judita conducts interdisciplinary research examining smart technology solutions in museums, individual and community identity construction, and the use of modern technology in the non-formal adult education sector.
Prof. Tomas Krilavičius is Dean of the Faculty of Informatics at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. He defended his Ph.D. on Hybrid Methods for Hybrid Processes at the University of Twente (Netherlands) in 2006. His research interests include applications of artificial intelligence and language technologies in finance, medicine, logistics and defense, and other large scientific infrastructures. Tomas represents Lithuania at NATO Science and Technology organization, and he is a member of the Centre Assessment Committee at Clarin ERIC.
Adelaida Zabalegui is a Nurse since 1982 (Spain), Master and Ph.D. in Nursing from New York University (1997) as a Fellow of the Spanish Ministry of Health.
I am an internationally recognised scholar in the field of qualitative secondary analysis, lead editor of ‘Qualitative Secondary Analysis’ (SAGE), for which I have also developed innovative methods training. As a Senior Fellow of the next phase of the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), I am responsible for commissioning Qualitative Longitudinal and Qualitative Secondary Analysis research methods training for all UK social scientists for this five year period of its investment by the ESRC. This expertise builds out of my role as the Director of the Timescapes Archive, a world-leading specialist digital data repository for qualitative longitudinal research. Currently, I am Editor in Chief of the BSA/SAGE Journal: Sociological Research Online. I lead the MA Qualitative Research Methods for the School of Sociology and Social Policy.
Grzegorz Bryda is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University, Head of the CAQDAS TM LAB and the Summer School for Qualitative Data Analysis and Research Methods, Senior Consultant for Statistical Analysis and Data Mining and Lecturer at the Training Center of SPSS Polska (currently IBM Predictive Solutions, 2003–2009), Rector’s Proxy for the Jagiellonian University Evaluation System of Quality Assurance (2008-2017), member of CLARIN PL scientific board (since 2017), lecturer at CAQDAS Summer School in Poland. He has a professional skills in conducting quantitative and qualitative research, moderating discussion groups (+450 FGI) and in-depth interviews (+250 IDI), statistical and qualitative data analysis, qualitative data modeling using NLP and text mining techniques, content analysis and CAQDAS. He is interested in Narrative Research and CAQDAS Analysis, Cognitive Sociology and Corpus Linguistics, Digital Humanities and Social Science Computing, CAQDAS and Linguistics data modelling with NLP and Text Mining approach in QDA. He is working on pioneering project: From paradigm to the research method. The domain ontology as a model of knowledge representation about the contemporary field of qualitative research. He works with public institutions and private companies as a methodologist and data analyst in the business projects.
I am a early stage scientist deeply devoted and highly passionate for science. I strive for excellence and contribution to knowledge. I am a curious person, hungry of knowledge, as my never-ending education demonstrates. Since I started my undergraduate studies, my interests have always turned around Artificial Intelligence and innovative applications, especially applied to formal reasoning and the World Wide Web. I have completed a BSc (honours) and an MSc (awarded distinction) both in Computer Science at the University of Insubria (Varese, Italy). I have obtained also a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics and an MSc in Health Informatics (awarded distinction) at the University of Dublin, Trinity College (Ireland). Here I have also successfully defended my PhD thesis in Artificial Intelligence. Additionally, I have recently obtained a Postgraduate diploma in Learning and Teaching at the Dublin Institute of Technology, now Technological University Dublin, the largest higher education institution of Ireland, as well as an MSc in Applied e-Learning.. I am a lecturer, covering both MSc and PhD courses in Computer Science and I am the leader of a team of post-graduated talented individuals working in Artificial Intelligence. 
David Lamas heads the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) group at Tallinn University’s School of Digital Technologies. He also serves as the chair of the Estonian chapter of ACM’s SIGCHI (http://sigchi.org) and as an expert member of IFIP’s TC13 (http://ifip-tc13.org).
Dr. Safary Wa-Mbaleka is an American educator and scholar who is currently working at the Adventist University of Africa as the university’s director of online education. He also teaches leadership and research courses. He has published several books and articles on qualitative research (see www.MyResearchCorner.org). He has spoken at several universities and at different international conferences and fora on qualitative research in the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He is the founding president of the Asian Qualitative Research Association, Philippines.
Martin Tolich’s first degrees were from Auckland University and his Ph.D. in Sociology was from University of California, Davis. He is currently Associate Professor in Sociology at Otago University, New Zealand. Martin has authored and co-authored numerous books on Research Methods and Research Ethics for Pearson, Oxford University Press, Routledge and Sage. His latest books were Planning Ethically Responsible Research (with Sieber), the Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics (with Ron Iphofen), Public Sociology Capstone: Non-neoliberal Alternatives to Internships, Social Science Research in New Zealand (with Davidson). His forthcoming book with Routledge is Finding Your Ethical Self: a guidebook for novice qualitative researchers. Tolich’s 2019 sabbatical leave is in Spain and Portugal. During that time he will walk Camino Del Norte analysing the authentic pilgrim from Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault and Max Weber perspectives. He has served on ethics committees for over twenty years and in 2008 founded a not-for-profit independent New Zealand Ethics Committee. In 2012, he gained a blue-sky three year Marsden Grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand to study tensions around ethics review.
Ron Chenail, Ph.D., is Associate Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Professor of Family Therapy, and Director of the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research Program at Nova Southeastern University (NSU). Twenty-seven years ago he created the world’s first online, open-access, English language, qualitative research journal, The Qualitative Report, and later launched its sister publication, The Weekly Qualitative Report. His web-based resources regularly rank in Google’s top ten qualitative research sites. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage (Taylor & Francis; 
Rosalind Edwards is Professor of Sociology, Social Sciences Director of Research, and co-director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods at the University of Southampton. She is also a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Rosalind is a founding and co-editor of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology, and has published widely on qualitative research. She is a co-author of a much-downloaded review paper: How Many Qualitative Interviews is Enough?: 
Maria Adriana Pereira Henriques is coordinator professor of nursing at the Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa (Nursing School of Lisbon) Portugal. She is President of the Technical-Scientific Council, since 2014 and member of the General Council of the ESEL. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1981, a specialization in nursing in 1992, a master’s degree in epidemiology in 1995 from Faculdade de Ciências Médicas and Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and PhD degrees in Nursing from the University of Lisboa in 2011. Her main topics of research are older people with chronic conditions, including nursing diabetes consultations or at home with emphasis on developing and evaluate complex interventions in nursing. In last years, she participated in projects ESSEnCE: amalgamating marginal gains in ESSEntial Nursing Care (stakeholder elements), a member of the project VaSelfCare, Portugal 2020, 02/SAICT/2016 and focal point and member of project Nurse-Lead Nursing Leadership Educational Program for Doctoral Nursing Students and Postdoctoral Nurses. She supervised PhD thesis and master dissertations in these topics and she is member of committees for public discussions of doctoral thesis and master dissertations. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and has made presentations in scientific meetings national/international. She is a nursing researcher in The Instituto de Saúde Ambiental (ISAMB) of Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon since 2015, and UIDE/ESEL. She is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Programme in Nursing of the University of Lisbon since 2011, a scholar member of European Academy of Nursing Science (EANS) since 2012, and a member of Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education, Portugal – A3ES, 2016.
Luís Paulo Reis is Director of LIACC – Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Lab at the University of Porto and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. He received his Electrical Engineering BSc, MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Porto in 1993, 1995 and 2003. His main topics of research are Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Robotics, Intelligent Simulation and Serious Games. He was the principal researcher in more than 10 projects in these areas. He supervised 18 PhD theses and 101 MSc theses to completion. He is the author of more than 300 publications in indexed international conferences and journals. He organized more than 50 international conferences and workshops. Through his scientific investigation, he was awarded more than 50 national/international awards. He was President of SPR – Portuguese Society of Robotics and currently is Vice President of APPIA – Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence and is IEEE Senior Member. He also regularly performs expert evaluations for the European Commission, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, National Innovation Agency, among others.