FQS Newsletter 8/07

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

Dear All,

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

A.	Articles, published in FQS in August 2007
B.	Articles, published in former FQS issues
C.	FQS Survey
D.	Conferences and Workshops
E.	Awards
F.	Links
G.	Open Access News

Enjoy reading!
Katja Mruck

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A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN AUGUST 2007

Kenneth Gergen (USA) in Conversation with César A. Cisneros-Puebla 
(Mexico): The Deconstructive and Reconstructive Faces of Social 
Construction. With an Introduction by Robert B. Faux (USA)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-08/08-1-20-e.htm

Kammila Naidoo (South Africa): Researching Reproduction: Reflections on 
Qualitative Methodology in a Transforming Society
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-08/08-1-12-e.htm

Sebastian Schroeer(Germany): Review, Wilfried Breyvogel (Ed.) (2005). 
Einfuehrung in Jugendkulturen. Veganismus und Tattoos [Introduction to 
Youth Cultures. Veganism and Tattoos]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-27-e.htm

Ruth Wodak (UK): Review, Siegfried Jaeger & Dirk Halm (Eds.) (2007). 
Mediale Barrieren? Rassismus als Integrationshindernis [Racism as a 
Means Against Integration]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-08/08-1-22-e.htm

Anja Zeiske (Germany): Review, Barbara Stauber (2004). Junge Frauen und 
Maenner in Jugendkulturen. Selbstinszenierungen und Handlungspotentiale 
[Young Women and Men Within Youth Cultures. Impression Management and 
Agency]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-08/08-1-18-e.htm


B) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FORMER FQS ISSUES

Thanks to David López, another text -- originally only published in FQS 
4(2) in the English language -- is now also available in Spanish:
The Write of Passage: Reflections on Writing a Dissertation in Narrative 
Methodology
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03noy-e.htm

La escritura de transición: Reflexiones en torno a la composición de una 
disertación doctoral en metodología narrativa
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03noy-s.htm


C) FQS SURVEY

We would like to thank all of you who already responded to our survey 
and would like to invite those who had no chance to respond to visit 
http://www.unipark.de/uc/fqs_evaluation/eng/

Answering the questionnaire will take about 20 to 30 minutes. The 
results of the survey will be included in a thesis concerning the 
relevance of open-access journals in the social sciences, using FQS as 
an example. Of course, all responses will be kept strictly confidential, 
analysed anonymously, and not be given to any third party. For questions 
concerning the evaluation, please contact Lisa Koch (e-mail: 
fqs-evaluation@qualitative-research.net).


D) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

21-24 September, Banff, Canada
8th Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference 
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/aqm2007.cfm

24-28 September, Sevastopol National Technical University, Sevastopol, 
Ukraine
Sixth International Conference Management of Small and Medium Business: 
Knowledge Management
http://www.rapidtranslationrus.com/Conference.html

11-13 March 2008, Leipzig, Germany
Conference The State and "the Others": Reacting to Xenophobia
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/Leipzig07_CfP.pdf 
(PDF, 194 kb)

See 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-e.htm 
(English) and 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-d.htm 
(German) for additional Conference Announcements.


E) AWARDS

1. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Sofja Kovalevskaja Award:

Submit an application if you are a successful top-rank junior researcher 
from abroad, only completed your doctorate with distinction in the last 
six years, and are working at least at the level of Assistant Professor 
or Junior Research Group Leader or have a record of several years of 
independent academic work. The Sofja Kovalevskaja Award allows you to 
spend five years building up working groups and working on a 
high-profile, innovative research project of your own choice at a 
research institution of your own choice in Germany.

Scientists and scholars from all disciplines may apply to the Alexander 
von Humboldt Foundation directly by 4 January 2008. The Humboldt 
Foundation will be able to grant up to eight Sofja Kovalevskaja Awards 
in 2008. The award is valued at 1.65 million EUR.
http://www.avh.de/en/programme/preise/kova.htm

2. Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned 
Societies: Fellowship Announcement

The Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned 
Societies announce the 2008 competition of the INTERNATIONAL 
DISSERTATION RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (IDRF) program, designed to support 
distinguished graduate students in the humanities and social sciences 
who are conducting dissertation research outside the United States. 
Seventy-five fellowships of approximately $20,000 will be awarded in 
2008 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The IDRF program is committed to scholarship that advances knowledge 
about non-U.S. cultures and societies grounded in empirical and 
site-specific research (involving fieldwork, research in archival or 
manuscript collections, or quantitative data collection). The program 
promotes research that is situated in a specific discipline and 
geographical region and is engaged with interdisciplinary and 
cross-regional perspectives.

Applicants must have completed all Ph.D. requirements except on-site 
dissertation research by the time the fellowship begins or by December 
2008, whichever comes first. Fellowships will provide support for nine 
to twelve months of dissertation research. The fellowship must be held 
for a single continuous period within the eighteen months between July 
2008 and December 2009. Deadline: November 6, 2007.
http://programs.ssrc.org/idrf


F) LINKS

Resources for methods in evaluation and social research
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/

Visiting international fellowship in social research methods
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/isr_vif.htm

Online review of several software packages for qualitative data analysis
http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/ChoosingLewins&SilverV5July06.pdf

Repertory grid software
http://www.eac-leipzig.de/scivescoweb/

Have, Paul ten (2006) On the interactive constitution of medical 
encounters. Revue Française de Linguistique Appliquée, 11(2), 85-98
http://www.paultenhave.nl/Medical%20encounters.pdf

Connecting art and anthropology
http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/caa/

World information access project
http://www.wiareport.org/

focuss.eu search engine for practitioners, researchers and students in 
the area of global development studies
http://www.focuss.eu/about.html

YouthArts toolkit
http://www.americansforthearts.org/youtharts/about/


E) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

August SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/08-02-07.htm

1. Conferences and Workshops

19-21 September, Padova, Italy
Berlin 5 Open Access: From Practice to Impact: Consequences of Knowledge 
Dissemination
http://www.aepic.it/conf/index.php?cf=10

2. Texts

Paul Ginsparg (2007): Next-Generation Implications of Open Access
http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/print.php?p=80

Barbara Kirsop, Subbiah Arunachalam and Leslie Chan (2007): Access to 
Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Options for Developing 
Countries
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue52/kirsop-et-al/

3. Journals/Newsletter

DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
http://www.doaj.org/

CTWatch Quarterly, 3(3): The Coming Revolution in Scholarly 
Communications & Cyberinfrastructure
http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/articles/2007/08/

First Monday, 12(8)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/

Living Reviews in European Governance
http://europeangovernance.livingreviews.org/

Qualitative Sociology Review, 3(2)
http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/volume7.php

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