Re: FQS Newsletter 10/07

[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 November 2007
B.	Inside FQS: Call for Book Reviewers
C.	From Our Partners
D.	Conferences and Workshops
E.	Links
F.	Open Access News

Enjoy reading!
Katja Mruck

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A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN NOVEMBER 2007

Vivienne Elizabeth (New Zealand): Another String to Our Bow: Participant 
Writing as Research Method
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-08/08-1-31-e.htm

Bernd Kaepplinger (Germany): Program Analysis and Its Relevance for 
Educational Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-08/08-1-37-e.htm

Víctor Hugo Masias H., Paola Andrea Ramirez P. & María Ines Winkler M. 
(Chile): Identity Construction of Converts to the Pentecostal Methodist 
Church of Chile
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-08/08-1-23-e.htm

Eva Nadai & Christoph Maeder (Switzerland): Negotiations at all Points? 
Interaction and Organization
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-08/08-1-32-e.htm

June Rabson Hare (Israel): Review, Johnny Saldana (2005). Ethnodrama: An 
Anthology of Reality Theatre
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-08/08-2-1-e.htm

Paul Sebastian Ruppel (Germany), Martin Dege (USA), Molly Andrews & 
Corinne Squire (UK): Tackling Problems of Qualitative Social Research: A 
Conversation. Conference Essay: Methods in Dialogue
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-08/08-1-41-e.htm


B) INSIDE FQS: CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWERS

Book reviewers needed for new books on action research, qualitative data 
analysis, video analysis, general qualitative research (design, 
writing/presenting), etc.

Please contact Guenter Mey (mey@qualitative-forschung.de) if you are 
interested to review one of the following books for FQS. Pls. check the 
"Information on Reviewing Media Units"
(http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/book-reviews/medieneinheiten-ehtm) 
first! And please have in mind that the reviews are expected in time (6 
months after the reviewer received the book).

Pat Bazely (2007). Qualitative Data Analysis with Nvivo
(London: Sage, 217 pages)

Norman Blaikie (2007). Approaches to Social Enquiry (2nd ed.)
(London: Sage)

Carol Grbich (2007). Qualitative Data Analysis. An Introduction
(London: Sage, 258 pages)

Adrian Holliday (2007). Doing and Writing Qualitative Research (2nd ed.)
(London: Sage, 234 pages)

Hubert Knoblauch, Bernt Schnettler, Juergen Raab & Hans-Georg Soeffner 
(Eds.) (2006). Video Analysis: Methodology and Methods. Qualitative 
Audiovisual Data Analysis in Sociology
(Frankfurt on the Main: Lang, 217 pages)

Ann Lewins & Christina Silver (2007). Using Software in Qualitative 
Research. A Step-by-Step Guide
(London: Sage, 288 pages)

Pranee Liamputtong (2007). Researching the Vulnerable
(London: Sage, 246 pages)

Catharine Marshall & Gretchen B. Rossman (2006). Designing Qualitative 
Research (4th ed.)
(London: Sage, 262 pages)

Peter Reason & Hilary Bradbury (2006). Handbook of Action Research 
(Concise Paperback Edition)
(London: Sage, 362 pages)

Angela Thody (2006). Writing and Presenting Research
(London: Sage, 264 pages)

Les Todres (2007). Embodied Enquiry. Phenomenological Touchstones for 
Research, Psychotherapy and Spirituality Writing and Presenting Research
(Palgrave, 201 pages)


C) FROM OUR PARTNERS

Eurasia Program of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Times of Trouble: Violence in Eurasia from Past to Present
New York City
April 4-6, 2008
Application Submission Deadline: December 17, 2007

The Eurasia Program of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) 
invites proposals for a dissertation development workshop focusing on 
issues of violence in Eurasia. Graduate students at any stage of their 
dissertation process (from proposal to write-up) and from any 
disciplinary or interdisciplinary program in the humanities or social 
sciences are eligible to apply. We particularly encourage applicants who 
propose fresh theoretical perspectives and methodologies, and whose work 
speaks to a wide scholarly audience.

Participants are invited from, but not limited to the fields of 
anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental studies, film and 
media studies, history, law, literature, politics, psychology, and 
sociology. Please note: only U.S. citizens and permanent residents are 
eligible to apply.

For detailed information, please visit the Eurasia Program online at
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/eurasia/


D) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

6-7 March 2008, Belgrade, Serbia
International Conference Qualitative Research in Education
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/QR_Belgrade_08.pdf 
(PDF, 25 kb)

6-9 May 2008, San Juan, Puerto Rico
3rd Iberoamerican Congress on Qualitative Health Research
http://web.mac.com/congresoics_2008/Investigaci%C3%B3n_Cualitativa_en_Salud_ICS,_2008/English.html 


2-4 July 2008, Strasbourg, France
Conference Policy and Programme Evaluation in Europe: Cultures and 
Prospects, organized by Gesellschaft fuer Evaluation (DeGEval) and the 
Société Française de l'Évaluation (SFÉ)
http://www.degeval.de/index.php?class=Calimero_Webpage&id=16380

10-11 July 2008, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Second International Conference CADAAD'08 on Critical Approaches to 
Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD)
http://www.cadaad.org/cadaad08/cfp

1-5 September 2008, Naples, Italy
Seventh International Conference on Social Science Methodology, 
organised by ISA RC 33 (Research Committee on Logic and Methodology), 
CfP for the Sessions

•	Process Generated Data: 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/CfP-ProcessGeneratedData.pdf 
(PDF, 7 kb)

•	Data for Historical Sociology and for Analyzing Long-Term Social 
Processes: 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/CfP-MethodsHistoricalSociology.pdf 
(PDF, 8 kb)

•	Interpretative Video-Analysis: 
http://www2.tu-berlin.de/fb7/ifs/soziologie/AllgSoz/conferences/RC%2033%20Napoles%20cfp%20Videoanalysis.pdf 


•	Re-discovering Grounded Theory. Forty Years of the Research Practice: 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/Konecki_Naples.pdf 
(PDF, 12 kb)

5-8 September 2008, Barcelona, Spain
First ISA Forum of Sociology Sociological Research and Public Debate 
(http://www.isa-sociology.org/barcelona_2008/); see additionally the CfP 
The End of Rationality? The Challenge of New Risks and Uncertainties in 
the 21st Century, TG04 "Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty"
http://www.kent.ac.uk/soru/TG04/TG04callforpapers.htm/

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) and 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-s.htm 
(Spanish) for additional conference announcements.


E) LINKS

OECD report "Giving Knowledge for Free: THE EMERGENCE OF OPEN 
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES"
http://213.253.134.43/oecd/pdfs/browseit/9607041E.pdf

The MERLOT AFRICA Network (MAN) of African higher education institutions 
affiliated with the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and 
Online Teaching (MERLOT)
http://man.merlot.org/index.html

EU-funded project Network of European Economists Online (NEEO)
http://www.nereus4economics.info/neeo_intro_press.html


F) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

November SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/11-02-07.htm

Conferences and Workshops

21-23 April 2008, Lund, Sweden
Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication NCSC 2008
http://www.lub.lu.se/en/ncsc.html

Texts

Scott Jaschik interviews Christine Borgman (2007). Scholarship in the 
Digital Age. Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/11/14/borgman

Harnad, Stevan (2007). Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research 
Assessment Exercise. In D. Torres-Salinas & H. F. Moed. (Eds.), 
Proceedings of 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for 
Scientometrics and Informetrics 11(1), pp. 27-33. Madrid, Spain
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13804/

Journals/Newsletter

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

Demographic Research
http://www.demographic-research.org/

First Monday, 12(11)
http://journals.uic.edu/fm/

Footprint, Delft School of Design Journal, new
http://www.footprintjournal.org/issues/current

Journal of the California Dental Association (CDA) now open access
http://www.cda.org/page/Journal_of_the_California_Dental_Association

Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation (JMDE), 4(8)
http://survey.ate.wmich.edu/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/issue/current

M/C - Media and Culture, 10(5)
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/


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