Re: FQS Newsletter 10/07
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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