WCQR2026 | 2 - 5 Feb 2026
Online
- 02 Feb Online - Mon | 02 Feb
- 03 Feb Online - Tue | 03 Feb
- 04 Feb Online - Wed | 04 Feb
- 05 Feb Online - Thu | 05 Feb
WCQR2026 Training Day
Please note: Attendance at the Training Day is not included in the WCQR2026 conference registration and requires separate enrollment.
It’s All About Me: Autoethnography
This short course aims to empower researchers to articulate their lived experiences while drawing critical connections to broader societal issues, enhancing both personal understanding and academic scholarship.
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Anna Kimberley
An Introduction to Constructivist Grounded Theory
This short course introduces Kathy Charmaz’s constructivist grounded theory (CGT), with a particular focus on social justice-oriented research. Grounded theory (GT) methods consist of flexible guidelines to fit particular research problems, not to apply mechanically...
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Elaine Keane
AI as a Co-Researcher in Qualitative Data Analysis
This short course offers an original methodology for qualitative data analysis that incorporates natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI). The methodology, developed by the researcher, combines traditional sociological approaches with advanced digital tools...
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Grzegorz Bryda
MIXAI: Integrating Mixed-Methods and Generative AI in Methodological Literature Reviews
This short course introduces the MIXAI model, a human-AI collaborative approach that integrates mixed-methods techniques with GenAI to enhance methodological literature reviews.
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António Pedro Costa
Judita Kasperiuniene
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It’s All About Me: Autoethnography
This short course aims to empower researchers to articulate their lived experiences while drawing critical connections to broader societal issues, enhancing both personal understanding and academic scholarship.
Learn more
Anna Kimberley
AI as a Co-Researcher in Qualitative Data Analysis
This short offers an original methodology for qualitative data analysis that incorporates natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI). The methodology, developed by the researcher, combines traditional sociological approaches with advanced digital tools...
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Grzegorz Bryda
Designing Qualitatively-Oriented Mixed Methods Research
This short course is full
How can mixed methods designs be leveraged to prioritize qualitative perspectives in their integration with quantitative research approaches? This short course sheds light on the nine key integration decisions researchers make in qualitatively-oriented mixed methods designs and how to incorporate evidence of qualitatively prioritized integration in your work.
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Cheryl N. Poth
Bending Space-Time with Personal Ways of Knowing: A Playful Introduction to the Liberatory Potential of Postformal Theory and Methodology
This short course introduces postformal theory and methodology as a counterbalance to the linearity, reductionism, and rigidity of neopositivist social science research. Postformal thinking seeks out complexity and difference, giving rise to further questions about humanity and the social world to home in on and make sense of entangled issues that may reproduce social inequality...
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Kelly Bare
Eric Karahalis
Tricia Kress
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WCQR2026 Welcome
Plenary Conference: Creative agency, algorithms and AI ascendance in qualitative research. Supportive co-existence or growing divide?
For my presentation I will provide an in-depth and engaging exploration of the main questions and issues on whether a supportive co-existence or growing divide is developing between researchers’ creative agency, algorithms and AI in qualitative research...
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Amanda K. Thomas
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Panel Discussion: Trauma-Informed Interviews with War-Affected Mothers: Positionality, Solidarity, and Ethical Care
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Demo Session: Analyzing Qualitative Data with MAXQDA
MAXQDA is a comprehensive software solution for qualitative data analysis offering a wide range of functionalities, such as manual and automated coding, memoing, visualization, AI-assisted analysis, and more... Learn more
Tamara Pataki
Break
Plenary Conference: Advancing Qualitative Research Toward Transformative Impact
This presentation views qualitative inquiry as a catalyst for meaningful transformation—one that empowers participants, challenges inequities, and produces insights for justice and sustainability...
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Prema Gaikwad
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Parallel Communications 13A, 13B, 13C
Pre-recorded video presentations
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Demo Session: Rethinking Computer Assistance in Qualitative Research in the Age of Generative AI: The QDA Miner Approach
Rather than presenting generative AI as a substitute for existing CAQDAS practices, the session introduces strategies we have developed to address these limitations by combining GenAI with more traditional AI...
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Normand Péladeau
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Plenary Conference: The AI Renaissance and the Futures of Qualitative Inquiry
Within the landscape of qualitative inquiry, generative AI is no longer peripheral to research practice; rather, it is shaping the very terrain on which inquiry rests...
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Jessica Nina Lester
Closing of WCQR2026 and presentation of WCQR2027
Important:
Online sessions are scheduled according to the local time in Madrid – Central European Time (UTC+01:00). See the corresponding times in your time zone.
The Program may suffer minor adjustments up until the Conference date. Please refer to the full program regularly for updates.