FQS Newsletter 2/07

[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 former FQS issues, now available in additional 
languages
B) Articles, published in FQS in February 2007
C) Conferences and Workshops
D) Links
E) Open Access News

Enjoy reading!
Katja Mruck

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A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FORMER FQS ISSUES

"Evaluative Research in Socio-political and Socio-cultural Context: 
Methodological Challenges and the Urgency of Social Interventions and 
Health Prevention in Remote Regions" by Hélène Laperrière, published in 
FQS 7(4) in Spanish, is now available in English too.
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-6-e.htm


B) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN FEBRUARY 2007

Birgit Griese (Germany): Review, Birgit Schreiber (2006). Versteckt. 
Juedische Kinder im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland und ihr Leben 
danach [Hidden. Jewish Children in National Socialist Germany and Their 
Lives Afterwards. With a Preface Written by Kurt Gruenberg, and an 
Epilogue Written by Dan Bar-On]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-16-e.htm

Peter Hilger (Finand): In Search For Criteria: The State Of Qualitative 
Media Research. Review Essay, Lothar Mikos & Claudia Wegener (Eds.) 
Qualitative Medienforschung. Ein Handbuch [Qualitative Media Research. A 
Handbook]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-7-e.htm

Davina Hoeblich (Germany): Conference Report, Auf unsicherem Terrain -- 
Ethnographische Forschung im Kontext des Bildungs- und Sozialwesens [On 
Unfamiliar Terrain -- Ethnographical Research in the Fields of Education 
and Social Work]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-10-e.htm

Daniela Jauk (Austria): Ralf Bohnsack, Aglaja Przyborski & Burkhart 
Schaeffer (Eds.) (2006). Das Gruppensdiskussionsverfahren in der 
Forschungspraxis [Group Discussions in Research Practise]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-12-e.htm

Sunil Khanna (USA): Review, Jean McNiff & Jack Whitehead (2006). All You 
Need to Know About Action Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-8-e.htm

Anja Kraus (Germany): Zu medialen Einfluessen auf Habitūs und 
Lernstrategien bei Schueler/inne/n in der Sekundarstufe I anhand von 
"Subtexten des Unterrichts" -- eine empirische Studie [A Study of Media 
Influences on the Learning Strategies of Students in the First Years of 
Secondary School by Means of "Subtexts"]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-11-e.htm

Mark Mason, Oswin Baker & Rebecca Hardy (UK): Drugwatch: Establishing 
the Practicality and Feasibility of Using Key Professionals and Illicit 
Drug Users to Identify Emerging Drug Tendencies
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-9-e.htm

Britta Stiefel (Germany): Der Einsatz archivierter Forschungsdaten in 
der qualitativen Methodenausbildung -- Konzept und Evaluation eines 
Pilotmodells für forschungsnahes Lernen [The Use of Archived Research 
Data in the Training of Qualitative Research Methods -- Concept and 
Evaluation of a Pilot Model for Learning that is Closely Linked to 
Research]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-15-e.htm

Paul Wainwright & Frances Rapport (UK): Conference Report, Circles 
within Circles -- Qualitative Methodology and the Arts: The Researcher 
as Artist
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-5-e.htm


C) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

16-17 March, Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, Duquesne University, USA
Symposium "Phenomenology and Critical Theory"
http://www.duq.edu/phenomenologycenter/criticaltheory

24-26 June, Monash University, Australia
Conference "Transitions: Health and Mobility in Asia and the Pacific"
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/spppm/conference/index.html

10-12 August, New York University, USA
Conference "Public Views of the Private; Private Views of the Public", 
International Visual Sociology Association
http://www.visualsociology.org/conference.html

3-6 September, Glasgow, Scotland
Using Qualitative Research: The Relevance and Applicability of "Micro" 
Methods, ESA RN Qualitative Methods
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/qual.htm, CfP 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/CfP_ESA-QM_2007.pdf 
(PDF, 32 KB)

13-14 September, University of Manchester, UK
Conference "The Legacy of the Chicago School"
http://web.mac.com/theorists/iWeb/Social%20Theorists/Chicago%20School%20Conference.html

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.


D) LINKS

Phenomenology Online
http://www.phenomenologyonline.com/

Husserl, Edmund (1960). Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to
Phenomenology (Transl. Dorion Cairns). The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff
Publishers.
http://ia311515.us.archive.org/1/items/cartesianmeditat017661mbp/cartesianmeditat017661mbp.pdf

Rapid Assessment
http://www.rapidassessment.net


E) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

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

DOAJ Membership Program launched
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=membership

Conferences

11-14 June, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
28th IATUL Annual Conference "Global Access to Science – Scientific 
Publishing for the Future"
http://www.lib.kth.se/iatul2007/

Texts

Shepherd, Jessica: Open season for researchers. Pressure is growing for 
academic publishers to put the fruits of publicly funded labour on the 
web. The Guardian, Tuesday February 13, 2007
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2011324,00.html

Journals/Newsletters

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

Artspraxis
http://education.nyu.edu/music/artspraxis

Education Review
http://edrev.asu.edu/

First Monday, 12(2)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_2/

Intersticios. Revista sociológica de pensamiento crítico, new
http://www.intersticios.es/

Medical Sociology online, CfP
http://www.medicalsociologyonline.org/

Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence, 3(2)
http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisustv03n02.html

Survey Research, new
http://w4.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/

Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
http://www.vectorsjournal.org

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