FQS Newsletter 12/04

[Katja Mruck <mruck@zedat.fu-berlin.de>]

Dear All,

Today I would like to draw your attention to the following news:

A) Articles from former FQS issues, now also available in the Spanish
language 
B) Articles, published in December 2004
C) From our readers
D) Grants
E) Conferences
F) Open Access News

On behalf of the Editorial Staff I would like to thank you for your
interest and support -- we enjoyed collaborating and working on FQS over
the past five years and look forward to many more.   

Wishing you a season of health, peace, and solidarity!

Katja Mruck
FQS-Editor

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A) ARTICLES FROM FORMER FQS ISSUES, NOW ALSO AVAILABLE IN SPANISH

FQS 4(2), Franz Breuer: Lo subjetivo del conocimiento socio-científico y
su reflexión: ventanas epistemológicas y traducciones metodológicas 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03intro-3-s.htm 
 
FQS 5(3), "La investigación es trabajo duro, siempre está ligada a
cierta dosis de sufrimiento. De ahí que por otro lado, deba ser
entretenida, divertida". Anselm Strauss en conversación con Heiner
Legewie y Barbara Schervier-Legewie
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-22-s.htm

(Thanks to our colleagues, Friedrich Welsch and Sebastián Soler
Schreiber, for providing the Spanish translations!)


B) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN DECEMBER 2004

Emily Abbey & Jaan Valsiner (USA): Emergence of Meanings Through
Ambivalence
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-23-e.htm 
                                                 
Georgina Kelly, Jeanette A. Lawrence & Agnes E. Dodds (Australia):
Women's Developmental Experiences of Living with Type 1 Diabetes
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-22-e.htm

Thomas Link (Austria): The Multiple Roles and Functions of Evaluation in
the Context of E-Learning Programs. Review Essay: Dorothee M. Meister,
Sigmar-Olaf Tergan & Peter Zentel (Eds.) (2004). Evaluation von
E-Learning. Zielrichtungen, methodologische Aspekte,
Zukunftsperspektiven [Evaluation of E-Learning Programs. Goals,
Methodology, and Future Directions]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-25-e.htm

Mike Metcalfe (Australia): Empirics as Comparisons
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-27-e.htm

Sabina Misoch (Germany): My_Site.de-Webpages as Media of
Self-Presentation. Review Essay: Jamshid Makhfi (2002). Medienkultur.
Eine qualitative und quantitative Analyse von Webpages [Media Culture. A
Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Webpages]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-21-e.htm

Carl Ratner (USA): Social Constructionism as Cultism. Comments on:
"'Old-Stream' Psychology Will Disappear With the Dinosaurs!" Kenneth
Gergen in Conversation With Peter Mattes and Ernst Schraube
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-28-e.htm

Ted Riecken, Teresa Strong-Wilson, Frank Conibear, Corrine Michel &
Janet Riecken (Canada): Connecting, Speaking, Listening: Toward an
Ethics of Voice with/in Participatory Action Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-26-e.htm


C) FROM OUR READERS

Question on qualitative content analysis:
http://www.qualitative-research.net/discus/messages/37/74.html?1103093513

Question on the use of metaphors to measure organizational culture: 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/discus/messages/39/60.html?1103010052#POST163


D) GRANTS

SSRC Eurasia Program: 2005 Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Competition:
The Eurasia Program of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is
currently offering a number of fellowships at both the predoctoral and
postdoctoral levels for the 2005-2006 academic year for research,
writing, training and curriculum development on or related to any of the
New States of Eurasia, the Soviet Union, and/or the Russian Empire.
These fellowships are funded by the U.S. Department of State under the
Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent
States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII). New online applications
and supporting materials are now available on the SSRC website at
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/eurasia/. 
Extended deadline: January 26, 2005  9:00 PM EST 


E) CONFERENCES

February 10-11 & 14-16 and June, 9-10 & 13-15
London, UK 
Intensive Short Courses in the Biographic-Narrative-Interpretive Method
(BNIM): Narrative interviewing and BNIM interpretation and uses 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/BNIM.pdf (PDF file,
33 KB)

April 9
University of Huddersfield, UK
5th Annual Narrative and Memory Research Group Conference on "Narrative,
Memory and Knowledge: Representations, Aesthetics, Contexts"
http://www.hud.ac.uk/hhs/dbs/nme/2005/index.htm 

May 19-21
Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Call for Papers, 5th International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology:
Current and Future Pasts
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/Cult_Gero_2005_Call.pdf
(PDF file, 98 KB)

June 17-18
ZUMA Mannheim, Germany
Workshop Hermeneutics and Qualitative Methodology 
http://www.gesis.org/Veranstaltungen/ZUMA/Workshops/WS_09_2005.htm

June 28-July 1 
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
International Critical Psychology Conference 2005 "Beyond the pale" 
http://www.ukzn.ac.za/critpsy/

September 9-12
Torun, Poland
CfP ESA Research Network "Qualitative Methods", 7th European
Sociological Association Conference of Sociology 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/CfP_ESA-QM_2005.pdf
(PDF file, 33 KB)

21-22 and 23-24 September
Buggiba, Republic of Malta
Conference on Social Capital and Conference on Economy and Community,
organized by the Social Capital Foundation
http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org/conferences/synopsis.htm 

July 23-29, 2006
Durban, South Africa
CfP ISA World Congress of Sociology, The Research Committee 03,
Community Research 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/RC03_CfP.pdf (PDF
file, 33 KB)

See
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-e.htm
for additional Conference Announcements.


F) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

The December SPARC Open Access Newsletter is available online at
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02-04.htm 
 
The Swedish Association of Higher Education (SUHF) has signed the Berlin
Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/signatories.html

Declaration from Buenos Aires on information, documentation and
libraries 
http://www.inforosocial.org/declaration.html (English) 
http://www.inforosocial.org/declaracion.html (Spanish)

University of Southampton: Commitment to open access
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/667

Release of the latest version of the GNU Eprints OAI-compliant
OA-Archive-creating software:
http://software.eprints.org/ 

Summary from Claudia Koltzenburg on the Cologne Open Access Publishing
Summit http://www.openspf.de/; see http://www.zbmed.de/summit/
http://www.zbmed.de/summit/PPkoltzenburg.pdf for her presentation on
"GAP - German Academic Publishers: Networking Open Access Scientific
Publishing in Germany"  

Finally some information about open access journals and e-books,
hopefully interesting for some of you: 

*** Bulletin of the World Health Organization 
Long running research journal of WHO. The Bulletin's mission statement
is succinct: "To publish and disseminate scientifically rigorous public
health information of international significance that enables
policy-makers, researchers and practitioners to be more effective and
improves health, particularly among disadvantaged populations."
http://who.int/bulletin/ 

*** International Journal of Education and Development using Information
and Communication Technology 
"The journal is published on the WWW as an open resource journal, i.e.,
with free and open access to all, but it has the status of commercially
published journals by having an International Editorial Board and
academic peer-reviewed articles."
http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/ 

*** World History Connected 
"presents innovative classroom-ready scholarship, keeps readers up to
date on the latest research and debates, presents the best in learning
and teaching methods and practices, offers readers rich teaching
resources, and reports on exemplary teaching." 
http://worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu/

*** The Glasgow Digital Library (GDL) 
has produced a series of freely available e-books relating to Glasgow
and Scotland.  These books have been digitised and converted to web
format at the Centre for Digital Library Research from a variety of
special collections.
http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/gdlebooks.html

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