WCQR2024 Workshops | Azores
Johnny Saldaña
Arizona State University (US)
Styles of Qualitative Writing and Reporting
This 90-minute workshop outlines an in-person and online six clock hour course in writing experiences with up to nine different styles of qualitative reportage: Descriptive and Realistic, Analytic and Formal, Interpretive, Confessional, Reflexive, Critical and Advocacy, Literary Narrative, Autoethnographic, and Poetic. Participants receive an overview of each style, accompanied with brief examples from the scholarly literature. Ten to 15-minute blocks of writing time are provided throughout for writers to document and experiment with a current research project’s manuscript, an unpublished thesis or dissertation, or a data base awaiting analytic review. Reading aloud and receiving peer feedback provide writers rapid assessment of their work in progress with ideas for further development.
The workshop describes the primary content of each writing module and its accompanying writing prompts and feedback frame, plus recommended titles for writing resources, strategies for maintaining effective writing habits, and reflections on the legacy of a writer’s work. Participants in this workshop will experiment with writing a passage in at least three different styles.
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.
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Uwe Flick
Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
Designing Qualitative Research for Multi-perspectivity and Research Quality
In this 90-minute workshop, we will first focus on central issues of planning and designing a qualitative research project. We will address the decisions to be taken in the process of doing a qualitative study, for example: When to use which design? How to plan a study with this design, for example a multi-perspective study? How to refine research questions? How to sample participants or settings and why?
The second focus will be on combining approaches for multi-perspectivity, in qualitative research for example by using triangulation: this part will focus on using triangulation of multiple qualitative methods and approaches in one design.
We will apply the discussions of research design and triangulation to approaches in qualitative research, which have not paid much attention to them so far, e.g., grounded theory research, or only implicitly have considered them, e.g., ethnography. Discussions will be illustrated by examples from my own research. In the end we will discuss, how these issues are related to questions of advancing the quality of qualitative research.
A major part of the workshop will be devoted to discussing the participants’ research projects – studies that are in the planning phase or are ongoing or in the writing phase. Participants in the workshop will be discussing their current projects, supported in framing their studies, in formulating their research questions and methodologies.
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.
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Authors
Melanie Nind
National Centre for Research Methods and University of Southampton (UK)
Sadhbh O’Dwyer
University of Limerick (IE)
Marta Cristina Azaola
University of Southampton (UK)
Sarah Lewthwaite
National Centre for Research Methods and University of Southampton (UK)
Inquiry and Diary Circles:
The power of the circle in qualitative research methods
This workshop will be facilitated by Sadhbh O’Dwyer and Cristina Azaola
It is well accepted that research is rarely linear. This workshop gives participants the chance to reflect together on the way in which circles (and spirals and loops) are used in qualitative research. To illustrate circle methods we will use the experience of (i) an online diary circle the National Centre for Research Methods employed to understand the research methods learning journeys of doctoral and early career researchers; and (ii) Collaborative Inquiry Circles as a creative and inclusive method for tutors of students with specific learning difficulties to explore social justice theories. Circles are important in indigenous methods and research story-telling too. Workshop participants can expect to share the shape of their research and whether and how shape matters, especially where dialogue, collaboration and reciprocal benefits from the research are intended. This includes discussion of circles as non-hierarchical/democratic spaces with peer/horizontal interaction, and as safe spaces for sharing within a research community.
Keywords: diary methods, collaborative inquiry, dialogue, research community, research design.
Necessary resources: No additional technical resources are needed to participate in the workshop. Participants will benefit from prior experience of focus group methods.
Melanie Nind is Professor of Education and Co-Director of the National Centre for Research Methods. She has long engagement in building capacity in research methods including (with Kilburn and Wiles, Using video and dialogue to generate pedagogic knowledge: Teachers, learners and researchers reflecting together on the pedagogy of social research methods, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2015, 18:5, 561-76 and with Lewthwaite, Methods that Teach, International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2018, 41(4), 398-410. She is editor of the Bloomsbury Research Methods for Education series and the Handbook of Teaching and Learning Social Research Methods (Edward Elgar).
Sadhbh O’Dwyer is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She is a specialist teacher in Specific Learning Difficulties and her interests lie in supporting inclusive practice and universal design in Initial Teacher Education and Medical Education. She developed the use of Collaborative Inquiry Circles as an inclusive research method for her PhD research. She received funding from Health Education England to develop a dyslexia screener for medical trainees with an emphasis on qualitative research methods.
Marta Cristina Azaola is a lecturer at the Centre for Research in Inclusion at the School of Education at the University of Southampton. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and interested in educational inequalities, social inclusion, exclusion, and school belonging in marginalised contexts. She applies sociological lenses and qualitative approaches to her research.
Sarah Lewthwaite is a Senior Research Fellow and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow with a continuing interest in methods development. She worked with Prof. Nind on the Pedagogy of Methodological Learning study (2015-2019), and has co-led studies focused on innovation in the teaching of ‘Big Qual’, methods textbooks, and inclusive research culture and data-driven research skills development. She is a contributor to the Handbook of Teaching and Learning Social Research Methods and has experience of using participatory and accessible digital diary methods with varied participants across university and the workplace learning settings.
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