[FQS] 26(3) online
Dear All,
I would like to inform you that FQS 26(3) is available online (see
https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/84 for the
current issue and
https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/archive for
former issues). A collection of single contributions as well as
articles, belonging to the FQS Debates on "Quality of Qualitative
Research" and on "We Are Talking About Ourselves!" as well as to FQS
Reviews are part of FQS 26(3). All in all, 37 authors from 10 countries
contributed to the new issue.
A. FQS 26(3)
B. Conferences and Workshops
C. Resources
D. Open Access News
Enjoy reading,
Katja Mruck
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A. FQS 26(3)
https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/84
Valentin Baehr, Hedda Bennewitz, Karin Braeu, Theresa Klene (Germany):
On the Doing of Fieldnotes in Ethnography
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4416
Jana Berg, Clara Holzinger (Austria), Michael Gruettner (Germany),
Anna-Katharina Draxl (Austria): Qualitative Interview Research in
Multilingual Contexts -- A Comparative Discussion of Language-Related
Decisions in Two Empirical Studies
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4367
Patricia Carabelli (Uruguay): Temporality in Ethnography of Discourse:
Untangling Discursive Knots Related to English Language Teaching at a
Public University in Uruguay
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4389
Jana Costa, Caroline Rau (Germany): Bridging Qualitative Reconstructive
Typologies and Quantitative Measurement: A Reflective Approach to
Methodologically Sound Item Development for the Assessment of Teachers'
Epistemological Beliefs in Teaching Humanities Subjects
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4361
Marianne Daher, Antonia Rosati, Alemka Tomicic, Esteban Hurtado (Chile):
Iterative Mixed Analysis Using Grounded Theory Methodology and
Structural Equation Modeling: Contributions of Qualitative and
Quantitative Methods to the Evaluation of Social Programs
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4285
Francisco Fonseca, D bora Dourado (Brazil): An Epistemic Framework for
Integrating Configurative Systematic Reviews, Gadamerian Hermeneutics,
and Reflexive Thematic Analysis
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4351
Guido Garc a Bast n, Horacio Lu s Paul n (Argentina): Mobile School
Cartographies: A Methodological Tool for Exploring School, Urban, and
Digital Mobilities With Youth
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4352
Oliver Hachmeier (Germany): Qualitative Secondary Analysis in
Organizational Development: A Case Study on the Development of an
Instrument to Assess the Readiness for Change of Employees in Child and
Youth Work
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4300
Ivanna Kyliushyk, Dominika Winogrodzka, Emil Chr l (Poland): Co-Creating
Research Design: How to Achieve Participation in Social Studies Using
Traditional Methods?
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4381
Megan Mitchell, Steve Haberlin (USA): Experiencing Interconnectedness
Through Mindful Inquiry and Meditative Thematic Analysis in Social
Science Research
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4407
Muhammad A.Z. Mughal (Saudi Arabia): Photos and Children: Using
Photo-Elicitation Interviews While Researching Children
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4311
Angela Pilch Ortega (Austria): Translating Narratives: Ethical and
Methodological Challenges in Qualitative Social Research
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4348
Miriam Raab (Germany): Invisibility by Choice: Telephone Interviews as
an Opportunity for More Inclusive and Participant-Centred Qualitative
Research
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4358
Antigona Shabani (Austria): In Front of Closed Doors:
Othering-Experiences in the Context of Field Access to Educational
Institutions
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4379
Suzanne Wilson (UK): Multiple and Fluid Positionalities in Community
Research With Socially Excluded Families: A Case for Reflexive Sociology
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4346
---> FQS Debate: Quality of Qualitative Research
Sean Halpin (USA): Navigating Consensus in Team-Based Qualitative
Research: Challenges and Strategies for Rigorous Analysis
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4386
---> FQS Debate: We Are Talking About Ourselves!
Alina Jung (Germany): Shame Must Change Sides: An Autoethnographic
Reflection on Abortion in the Context of My Own Pregnancy
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4397
---> FQS Reviews
Gordon Chang, J.R. Osborn, Andrew Chalfoun, Tad Skotnicki, Aminda M.
Smith (USA): Review Symposium: Interactionism Meets Historical Analysis:
An Author-Critic Dialogue on "Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of
Ideology in Unsettled Times"
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.3.4480
B. Conferences
6-8 October, Tuebingen, Germany
Conference "Situating Transitions -- New Horizons in Research of Life
Course Transitions"
https://doingtransitions.org/save-the-date-die-naechste-internationale-tagung-des-grk-doing-transitions-findet-vom-8-10-oktober-2025-in-tuebingen-statt
8-10 October, Hamburg, Germany
Young Scholars' Conference "Time & Justice. Temporal Interrogations Into
Social-Ecological Justice"
https://www.zukuenfte-nachhaltigkeit.uni-hamburg.de/kolleg/newsroom/2024-12-02-call-time-and-justice.html
16-19 October, Berlin, Germany
4th Colleex Workshop "Styles of Experimentation. Unsettling the
Anthropological Syllabus"
https://colleex.wordpress.com/4th-colleex-workshop-styles-of-experimentation-unsettling-the-anthropological-syllabus/
21 October, online
SJSU Virtual Open Access Conference "Defend Research, Defend Open Access"
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-conference/
22-24 October, Norrkoeping, Sweden
15th Conference on "Aging, Intergenerational Solidarity and the Polycrisis"
https://cgscholar.com/cg_event/events/J25en/about
6-7 November, Lund, Sweden
Conference "'Truthers' and 'Truth Defenders': Understanding Conflicts
over Conspiracy Theories"
https://projekt.ht.lu.se/conspirations/conference-2025/
14-15 November, Cork, Ireland
17th Annual Critical Perspectives in Mental Health Conference
"Supporting People in Distress -- Critical Perspectives on Safe Places
and Spaces"
https://cvni.ie/2025-2/
20-23 January 2026, Nuremberg, Germany
17th interdisciplinary PhD-Workshop -- Perspectives On (Un-)Employment
https://iab.de/en/iab-veranstaltungen/17th-interdisciplinary-phd-workshop-perspectives-on-un-employment/
26-28 November, Napoli, Italy
International Conference "Bridges and Barriers: Rethinking Connections
and Disconnections in Contemporary Canada"
https://aiscnapoli2025.wixsite.com/bridgesandbarrier
28-29 January 2026, Berlin, Germany
QUAL360 "Qual Reimagined: Connecting Humans & Innovation"
https://eu.qual360.com/
5-6 February 2026, Vienna, Austria
Conference "The Archival Turn In Music Sociology"
https://www.mdw.ac.at/ims/events/the-archival-turn-in-music-sociology/
13-15 February 2026, Ankara, Turkey
International Conference "Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher
Education"
https://digilte.org/iccalte-conference/
26-27 February 2026, Cologne, Germany
GOR Annual Conference 2026
https://www.gor.de
6-8 March 2026, online
2026 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN)
https://iaani.org/2026isan/
23-26 March 2026, online
The Qualitative Report 17th Annual Conference "A Matter of Trust"
https://tqr.nova.edu/tqr-17th-annual-conference/
25-27 March 2026, Mannheim, Germany
25th Conference on Discourse and Conversation Analysis "Technology Use
and Social Interaction: New Interactive Practices, New Data and Methods"
https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/kolloquien/2026/agf-2026
8-10 April 2026, Edinburgh, UK
BSA Annual Conference 2026: 75 Years of Sociology
https://britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/bsa-annual-conference-2026-75-years-of-sociology/
13-15 May 2026, Shanghai, China,
7th Conference on Corpora for Language and Aging Research (CLARe7)
https://ageing.tongji.edu.cn/info/1043/2681.htm
8-12 June 2026, Ney York, USA
ISTP 2026 Conference "Theorizing in Dark Times -- Art, Narrative,
Politics" https://istpsychology.org/conferences/
8-10 July 2026, Lyon, France
3rd Conference of the Association of European Qualitative Researchers in
Psychology
https://www.equip2026.inviteo.fr/
13-15 July, Glasgow, Scotland
2026 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety)
https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2025/call-for-submissions-smsociety-july-13-15-2026-in-glasgow-uk/
7-11 September 2026, Marburg, Germany
11th Congress of the International Society for Dialectology and
Geolinguistics (SIDG) "Geolinguistics Across Borders"
https://sidg.dsa.info/call-for-papers/
C. Resources
Bristol University Press: Collection: Racism in the UK
https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/RIB-Collection
Ryan Davey: The Personal Life of Debt. Coercion, Subjectivity and
Inequality in Britain
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-personal-life-of-debt
Kai Droege: Why AI Has a "Proving the Obvious" Problem, and What We Can
Do About It
https://blogs.surrey.ac.uk/caqdas/2025/05/27/why-ai-has-a-proving-the-obvious-problem-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/
Lance Eaton: Elbow Patches To Eye Patches: A Phenomenographic Study of
Scholarly Practices, Research Literature Access, and Academic Piracy
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/doctoral_dissertations/1058
Marco Galle et al.: Social Network Interviews With Large Language Models
(Artificial Intelligence). A Study on Student-Centred Collaboration in
the Social Network "Teacher Education"
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22546.36800
Mariya Ivancheva et al.: Who Cares? Feminised Care Labour and the Crisis
of Social Reproduction in Post-Socialist Bulgaria
https://levfem.org/who-cares-about-care/
Andrea Karsten: Understanding Personal Agency Through Metaphor or: Why
Academic Writing is (not) Like a Roller Coaster Ride
https://digital.ub.uni-paderborn.de/hs/content/titleinfo/7922976
Christian Kempny et al.: QualiPilot -- An Offline AI Tool for
Qualitative Content Analysis
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7122121/v1
Armin Koerfer, Christian Albus (Eds.): Medical Communication Competence.
Handbook on Theory, Didactics, Practice and Evaluation of Medical
Interviewing
http://verlag-gespraechsforschung.de/2025/medical-communication.html
Nataliya Kosmyna et al.: Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of
Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Vitomir Kovanovic, Rebecca Marrone: Researchers Say Using ChatGPT Can
Rot Your Brain. The Truth is a Little More Complicated
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-chatgpt-brain-truth-complicated.html
Teppo Kroeger et al. (Eds.): Care Poverty and Unmet Needs, Inequalities
in Theory and Practice
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/care-poverty-and-unmet-needs
Chris Kuzmicki, Heather McKnight: Clean Clothes and Creative Identities
at Harriett s Press: Tackling Hygiene Poverty and Isolation Through
Artistic Engagement in a Community Laundrette
https://www.magneticideals.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Final-Clean-Clothes-and-Creative-Identities.pdf
Tom Meyer: Qualitative Concept Mapping -- Visually Reconstructing Causal
Structures in Spatially Oriented Social Research
https://visqual.leibniz-ifl-projekte.de/methodbox/2025/06/03/qualitative-concept-mapping/
Rico Neumann et al.: "Have Your Say" in Practice: Assessing Citizens'
Use of the EU's Public Consultation Platform
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23745118.2025.2471877
Amy Han Qiu, Dennis Tay: Literal and Metaphorical Cross-Domain Mappings:
How They are Used and Responded to in Psychotherapy
https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2025.2456852
Ingrid Scharlau, Philip Porwol: Metaphors for Explaining -- A Short Guide
https://digital.ub.uni-paderborn.de/doi/10.17619/UNIPB/1-2259
Anna Shadrina: The Babushka Phenomenon. Older Women and the Political
Sociology of Ageing in Russia
https://bit.ly/3V8sPwd
Christina Silver: What I Think About What's Happening in the Qual-AI Space
https://blogs.surrey.ac.uk/caqdas/2025/07/25/what-i-think-about-whats-happening-in-the-qual-ai-space/?trk=public_post_comment-text
Christina Silver: Chat With Pat Bazeley, Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7BOnhz1Otk
Jeremy Utley: You Are Using AI Completely Wrong (for Qualitative Analysis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQgjFc_j_jE
Cameron C. Yetman: Metaphor and Metaphilosophy: Wittgenstein, MacDonald,
and Conceptual Metaphor Theory
https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.13038
D. Open Access News
See http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp/items for Additional Open
Access News.
---> Texts, etc.
Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen: The Future Development of
Assessment Processes for Research Activity in the Context of Open Science
https://zenodo.org/records/15836010
Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen: The Alliance's Strategy for the
Further Development of Academic Publishing 2026-2030
https://zenodo.org/records/15853295
Carolin Becklas, Jonas Hauss: AI and Open Access: Why Paywalls Are Not
the Solution
https://av.tib.eu/media/70996
Judith Fathallah: Choosing Open Access for Books: An Author Journey
https://ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=971f74c8-6218-4901-9de5-b30700d5f36b&start=0
Carol Green: The Open Access Journals Toolkit: New Languages, New
Editorial Board Members, New Horizons
https://www.oaspa.org/news/the-open-access-journals-toolkit-new-languages-new-editorial-board-members-new-horizons/
Samuel A. Moore: Publishing Beyond the Market. Open Access, Care, and
the Commons
https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
Reese A.K. Richardson et al.: The Entities Enabling Scientific Fraud at
Scale are Large, Resilient, and Growing Rapidly
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420092122
---> Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
Directory of Open Access Books
https://doabooks.org/
Contributions to the History of Concepts, 20(1)
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/contributions/20/1/contributions.20.issue-1.xml
Democratic Theory, 12(2)
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/democratic-theory/12/2/democratic-theory.12.issue-2.xml
Education Sciences
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/education
Ethnologia Europaea, 55(1)
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/ethnologia-europaea/55/1/ethnologia-europaea.55.issue-1.xml
First Monday, 30(8)
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/773
Journal of Disappearance Studies, 1(1)
https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/jds/jds-overview.xml?tab_body=latest-issue
Journal of Electronic Publishing, 28(2)
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/386/info/
Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11
https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/11/volume/11/issue/1
Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 13(2)
https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/issue/view/625
Media and Communication, 13
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/issue/view/493
Migration and Society, 8(1)
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/migration-and-society/8/1/migration-and-society.8.issue-1.xml
Notas de Antropolog a de las Am ricas (NAA), 2024
https://bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle/20.500.11811/9696/browse
Polish Sociological Review, 231(3)
https://polish-sociological-review.eu/Issue-3-2025,16054
Politics and Governance, 13
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/issue/view/391
Social Inclusion, 13
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/view/472
TATuP - Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice, 34(2)
https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/issue/view/184
Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, 72(184)
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/theoria/72/184/theoria.72.issue-184.xml
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