FQS Newsletter 10/04

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

Dear All,

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

A) Articles, belonging to FQS 5(3) 
B) Articles, published in October 2004
C) From our readers
D) Grants
E) Conferences
F) Open Access News

Wishing you a nice weekend!

Katja Mruck
FQS-Editor

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A) ARTICLES, BELONGING TO FQS 5(3) 

"I am Not Opposed to Quantification or Formalization or Modeling, But Do
Not Want to Pursue Quantitative Methods That Are Not Commensurate With
the Research Phenomena Addressed" -- Aaron Cicourel in Conversation With
Andreas Witzel and Guenter Mey
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-41-e.htm 

Cesar A. Cisneros-Puebla, Robert Faux & Guenter Mey: Qualitative
Researchers -- Stories Told, Storied Shared: The Storied Nature of
Qualitative Research. An Introduction to the Special Issue: FQS
Interviews I (now available in Spanish too):
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-37-s.htm 

B) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER 2004

Robert Anthony (Canada): Consistency of Ethics Review
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-5-e.htm 

Linda Coupal (Canada): Practitioner-Research and the Regulation of
Research Ethics: The Challenge of Individual, Organizational, and Social
Interests
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-6-e.htm 

Thorsten Junge (Germany): Review Note, Petra Fosen-Schlichtinger (2002).
Ueber die gesellschaftspolitische Bedeutung von Praenataldiagnostik und
kuenstlicher Befruchtung als Teile moderner Reproduktionstechnologien
unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung familiensoziologischer Aspekte, ihrer
medizinischen Dimension und der Bedeutung des Themas Behinderung als
soziales Phaenomen [The Social and Political Importance of Prenatal
Diagnoses and in vitro Fertilization-Their Sociological Aspects for
Families, Their Medical Importance and the Meaning of Disabilities as a
Social Phenomenon]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-7-e.htm 

Iain Lang (UK): Review Note, Valerie J. Janesick (2004). "Stretching"
Exercises for Qualitative Researchers
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-1-e.htm 

Mary H. Maguire (Canada): What if You Talked to Me? I Could Be
Interesting! Ethical Research Considerations in Engaging with Bilingual
/ Multilingual Child Participants in Human Inquiry
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-4-e.htm 

Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Ethics as Social Practice: Introducing the
Debate on Qualitative Research and Ethics
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-9-e.htm 

Werner Schneider (Germany): Discourse "Makes" Reality -- A Discourse
Analysis About Translating Medical Briefings. Review Essay: Bernd Meyer
(2004). Dolmetschen im medizinischen Aufklaerungsgespraech. Eine
diskursanalytische Untersuchung zur Wissensvermittlung im mehrsprachigen
Krankenhaus [Translating Briefings for Informed Consent. A Discourse
Analysis About Knowledge Transfer in the Multilingual Hospital]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-3-e.htm 

Maaja Vadi (Estonia): Who and in What Ways Can Collaborate in
Organizational Research? Review Essay: Niclas Adler, A. B. (Rami) Shani
& Alexander Styhre (Eds.) (2004). Collaborative Research in
Organizations. Foundations for Learning, Change, and Theoretical
Development 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-2-e.htm 

C) FROM OUR READERS

For a question how to "critically evaluate quantitative and qualitative
research methods" and some first responses see:
http://www.qualitative-research.net/discus/messages/39/60.html?1096827239 

D) GRANTS

*** Request for Research Proposals on Advanced German and European
Studies

The Freie Universitaet Berlin and GSA Berlin Program for Advanced German
and European Studies offers up to one-year of research support at the
Freie Universitaet Berlin. It is open to scholars in all social science
and humanities disciplines, including historians working on the period
since the mid-19th century. The program accepts applications from U.S.
and Canadian nationals or permanent residents. Applicants for a
dissertation fellowship must be full-time graduate students who have
completed all coursework required for the Ph.D. and must have achieved
ABD (all but dissertation) status by the time the proposed research stay
in Berlin begins. Also eligible are U.S. and Canadian Ph.D.s who have
received their doctorates within the past two calendar years. Awards
provide between ten and twelve months of research.
Deadline: December 1, 2004

For complete information and an application, please go to our website at
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/ or send an e-mail to
bprogram@zedat.fu-berlin.de

*** 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/. The electronic application
submission deadline is November 9, 2004 at 9:00 p.m.

E) CONFERENCES

On November 19 a one-day workshop on "Digital Records and
Representations of Human Activities" is organized in Nottingham, UK, by
the SRC National Centre for e-Social Science.
http://www.mrl.nott.ac.uk/~axc/eSocial_Science_Workshop.htm

December 9-11 the Technical University of Berlin organizes a conference
on "Video-Analysis: Methodology and Methods. State of the Art and
Prospects of Interpretative Audiovisual Data Analysis in Sociology".
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/Videotagung.pdf (PDF
file, 33 KB)

February 17-19 the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada organizes the 6th Advances in Qualitative
Methods Conference.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/AQM2005/

May 5-7 the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA organizes the
1st International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
http://www.QI2005.org/

June 22-24 the 3rd Conference of the European Association for the
Teaching of Academic Writing -- "Teaching Writing On Line and Face to
Face" -- takes place in Athens, Greece.
http://eataw2005.hau.gr 

June 22-24 in Manchester, UK, the "First International Conference on
e-Social Science" will be organized by the SRC National Centre for
e-Social Science.
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference_05.htm 

July 6-9 the 37th World Congress "Frontiers of Sociology" will take
place, organized by the Institute of Sociology in Stockholm, Sweden.
http://www.scasss.uu.se/IIS2005/

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

F) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

The German government has awarded Euro 6.1m to STM publisher FIZ
Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Society (MPS) to develop a platform for
web-based collaborative scientific work and self-publishing. [...]
http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1158510 

SAGE Publications goes ROMEO Green "... This improved policy comes into
effect immediately and applies to all journals where SAGE is responsible
for author copyright policy. It allows authors to self-archive their own
copy pre-print (i.e. submitted), and their own copy post-print (i.e.
accepted for publication)."
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0410/msg00046.html

National Open Access Agreement for Norway: "Norway has made a nationwide
commitment to Open Access for the biomedical research it funds. All
universities, polytechnics research institutes and hospitals in Norway
became BioMed Central members on 1 October 2004." 
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=5664
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/pr-releases?pr=20041018

The October SPARC Open Access Newsletter is available online at
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/10-02-04.htm. 
 
The first issue of PLoS Medicine, the 2nd open-access jounal of the
Public Library of Science (http://www.plos.org/), has been published in
October. 
http://www.plosmedicine.org/

New Texts:
- "Ten Years After", Richard Poynder, in Information Today, 21(9),
Oktober
2004:
http://www.infotoday.com/it/oct04/poynder.shtml 
- "Future of the NIH Open Access Policy", Barbara Quint, in Information
Today, 21(9), Oktober 2004:
http://www.infotoday.com/it/oct04/quint.shtml

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