[FQS] 27(1) online

[Katja Mruck <katja.mruck@qualitative-forschung.de>]

Dear All,

I would like to inform you that FQS 27(1) is available online (see 
https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/85 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 an 
article, belonging to the FQS Debate on "Qualitative Research and 
Ethics" are part of FQS 27(1). All in all, 39 authors from 10 countries 
contributed to the new issue.

A. FQS 27(1)
B. Conferences and Workshops
C. Resources
D. Open Access News

Enjoy reading,
Katja Mruck

Ps: FQS is an open-access journal: all articles are available free of 
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A. FQS 27(1)
https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/85

Wilson Orlando Albornoz Fuentes (Chile): Between Seals and Feigned 
Ethics: Autoethnographic Tensions in Delivering Gender-Perspective 
Training in Institutional Contexts
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.1.4495

Julia Brannen (UK): Analysing Personal Letters: A Microhistory of Jo 
Burnett Knight, West Germany 1951
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.1.4517

Anna-Lena Brown, Patrick Bettinger (Germany): Researching the Discursive 
in Mood Tracking Practices. Empirical Insights and Methodological 
Reflections in the Context of a "Smart Journaling"-Study
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.1.4417

Stephanie Caron-Roy, Bonnie Fournier, Roula Kteily-Hawa, Susan 
Sommerfeldt, Artem Mamadzhanov (Canada): The Use of Theater to Restore 
Intergenerational Relationships and Knowledge Transfer in Africa: A 
Narrative Review
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.1.4440

Muh. Fitrah (Indonesia): The Construct of Mathematics Learning 
Technology With Multidimensional Resource Constraints: A Constructivist 
Grounded Theory
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.1.4481

Maria Jimenez Ramos, Antonio Martinez-Illan, Lucia Gaston Lorente, 
Roncesvalles Labiano, Beatriz Gomez Baceiredo, Aurken Sierra (Spain): 
The Miguel Angel Blanco Archive: The Unpublished Letters Reflecting a 
Change in the Perception of Terrorism and Its Victims in Spain
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.1.4464

Adelina Kakija (Albania): Vulnerability as Professional Testimony: An 
Autoethnography of Panic and Hormonal Transition in an Academic Context
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.1.4497

Stephan Lorenz, Laura Kuenzel, Roberta Wetzel (Germany): Case 
Network-Analysis: A Methods Combination of Case Reconstruction and Actor 
Network Research
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.1.4441

Lisa Maurice-Takerei, Ross Bernay, Ruth Boyask, Rebecca Hopkins, John 
Milne, Jayne Jackson (New Zealand), Parisa Tadi (Australia): A Sidetrack 
to Autoethnography. Enriching a Reading Research Collective
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.1.4503

Bridget McClarty (Canada): Zooming in on Lived Experiences: Using 
Descriptive Phenomenology and Qualitative Methods to Examine Connection 
to Nature
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.1.4534

Fiona P. McDonald, emilie isch, Suzi Asa, Donna Langille (Canada): 
Making Data From Drawing: How Step-by-Step Protocols Can Enrich 
Reflexive Inquiry in Qualitative Research
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.1.4555

Sof a Salome Pineda Arias (Spain): Writing and Dancing From the Belly: 
An Autoethnographic Understanding of Social Class
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.1.4437

Parvin Safari (Iran): Resonances of My Often-Silenced Voice: An 
Autoethnographic Inquiry Into the Academic Journey of My Self as a 
Plagiarism Victim
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.1.4461

Mareike Wilke (Germany): Reflection on Gaining Access to Neo Salafist 
Girls and Women: Adapting the Research Method to the Research Field
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.1.4511

---> FQS Debate: Qualitative Research and Ethics

Marta Pietrusinska, Dominika Winogrodzka, Ivanna Kyliushyk, Agnieszka 
Tr?bka, Kseniya Homel (Poland): Ethical Reflections on Working With Peer 
Researchers. Experience From the Field in Migration Studies
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.1.4474


B. Conferences

2-5 February, Online
10th World Conference on Qualitative Research
https://wcqr.ludomedia.org/

5-6 February, 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, Ankara, Turkey
International Conference "Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher 
Education"
https://digilte.org/iccalte-conference/

23-24 February, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Closing Conference "From the Era of the Witness to Digital Remembrance. 
New Media, Holocaust Sites and Changing Memory Practices"
https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/291954

26-27 February, Cologne, Germany
GOR Annual Conference 2026
https://www.gor.de

6-8 March, online
2026 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN)
https://iaani.org/2026isan/

13 March, online
Open Conference of AI Agents for Qualitative Research
https://www.aiagents4qual.org/call-for-papers/

23-26 March, online
The Qualitative Report 17th Annual Conference "A Matter of Trust"
https://tqr.nova.edu/tqr-17th-annual-conference/

25-27 March, 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 


25-27 March, Bochum, Germany
2nd stsing Conference "Before Ruins"
https://stsing.org/before-ruins/save-the-date

8-10 April, 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/

4-6 May, Graz, Austria
24th Annual STS Conference "Critical Issues in Science, Technology and 
Society Studies"
https://stsconf.tugraz.at/

13-15 May, Shanghai, China
7th Conference on Corpora for Language and Aging Research (CLARe7)
https://ageing.tongji.edu.cn/info/1043/2681.htm

30 May-3 June, Poznan, Poland
Positioning Theory Conference
https://ptconference2026.web.amu.edu.pl/

2-5 June, Lausanne, Switzerland
Annual Sustainability Science Conference "Towards a Just and Habitable 
World: Exploring the Role of Technology"
https://pathways.futureearth.org/sustainability-science-conference/

8-12 June, New York, USA
ISTP 2026 Conference "Theorizing in Dark Times -- Art, Narrative, 
Politics" https://istpsychology.org/conferences/

10-12 June, Tartu, Estonia
10th Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies "Global 
Flows and Frictions in Eastern Europe and Eurasia"
https://sisu.ut.ee/wp-content/uploads/sites/140/Call-for-Paper-2026.pdf

11-12 June, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
Conference "Communicating (With) Non-Humans. Animals and Machines as 
Interlocutors"
https://www.kuwi.europa-uni.de/de/professuren-mitarbeitende/sprachpraktiken-medienkulturen/communicating-nonhumans/index.html

15-17 June, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG)
https://ecpr.eu/Events/343

16-19 June, Oslo, Norway
European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction "Situations, 
Power, and Persuasion"
https://www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2026/esssi-conference-2026.html

29 June-1 July, Braga, Portugal
16th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeleyuvnWOScduMl741KHTwOu-gXxGIEMfpuylxqlVDq-srGA/viewform 


8-10 July, 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/

13-16 July, Innsbruck, Austria
2nd Innsbruck Conference on Critical Applied Psychology "Capitalism, 
Crisis, Critique & Change"
https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/psychologie/tagung/critical-applied-psychology-conference-innsbruck-2026/ 


22-24 July, Rome, Italy
WINIR 2026 Conference on "Private & Public Institutions for Good Governance"
https://winir.org/winir-2026/

15-16 August, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
12th ACSE Annual Conference "Rebuilding Trust in Scholarly Publishing"
https://theacse.com/2026/

19-21 August, Hamburg, Germany
21st Biennial Conference, European Society of Health and Medical 
Sociology (ESHMS)
https://eshms.eu/

25-28 August, Warsaw, Poland
European Sociological Association Conference "Strengthening Democracies: 
Social Action, Solidarity, and Sustainable Futures"
https://www.europeansociology.org/conference/2026

7-11 September, Marburg, Germany
11th Conference of the International Society for Dialectology and 
Geolinguistics (SIDG) "Geolinguistics Across Borders"
https://sidg.dsa.info/call-for-papers/

8-11 September, Krakow, Poland
EASST 2026 "More Than Now: Exploring Resilient Future"
https://easst.net/

9-10 September, Bath, UK
2026 Work, Employment and Society Conference "Work and Employment in the 
Great Reshuffle: Navigating the Polycrisis"
https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/work-employment-and-society-conference-2026/submissions/ 


14-16 September, Tuebingen, Germany
10th Conference of the "Digital Anthropology" Section, Deutsche 
Gesellschaft fuer Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW) "Knowing AI. 
Anthropological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Knowledge 
Production With and Beyond Artificial Intelligence
https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/290016

14-18 September, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Luhmann Conference 2026 "Meaning. Observed With ..."
https://derroth.com/2026/01/24/cfp-luhmann-conference-2026/

30 September-2 October, Freiburg, Germany
Conference "Mobilisation and Community Formation in Minority and 
Diaspora Contexts: The 'We' in Central and Eastern Europe"
https://www.ikdebw.de/news/mobilisation-and-community-formation-in-minority-and-diaspora-contexts-the-we-in-central-and-eastern-europe 



C. Resources

All texts/sources listed here and below are available online free of charge.

Benjamin Abrams: Review Article. A Revolution in Revolutionary Theory?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-jzl4SNbBXhQUs4N9YOras9ujVCYRO1R/view

Bristol University Press: Collection of Open Access Books in Social 
Research Methods
https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/collection/B-SRM-Collection?submittedFilterId=by-access&type_0=book&pageSize=10&sort=datedescending&access_5=open

Regula Valerie Burri et al. (Eds.): Grounding Digitalization -- 
Technologies, Materialities, and Spaces
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-8038-6/grounding-digitalization/ 


Ella Cockbain et al.: Evaluating Anti-Trafficking Interventions. 
Critical Reflections and Lessons From the Field
https://bit.ly/42kmCBh

Gil Dekel: Preserving Artistic Integrity While Creating AI Art
https://www.poeticmind.co.uk/journal-creativity-and-inspiration/volume-1-issue-1/preserving-artistic-integrity-while-creating-ai-art/ 


Giselle Ferreira et al. (Eds.): Metaphors of AI in Education: 
Discourses, Histories and Practices
https://jime.open.ac.uk/collections/metaphors-of-ai-in-education

Hannah Field et al. (Eds.): Playthings and Playtimes: Play, Affect and 
Material Culture in the Ludic World
https://bit.ly/41NimKu

Susanne Friese: Response to the Open Letter that Opposes the Use of 
Generative AI for Reflexive Qualitative Research
https://qeludra.com/blog/response-to-open-letter-opposing-the-use-of-generative-ai-for-reflexive-qualitative-research 


Gary Hall: Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal -- Why the Arts Are So 
White, Male and Middle-Class and What We Can Do About It
https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal

Tanisha Jowsey et al.: We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial 
Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5676462

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

Andreas Larsson: The Way Technology Teachers Think: The Role of Metaphor 
and Reflection for Technology Education Practice
https://doi.org/10.24377/DTEIJ.article3173

Hedda Lausberg: Nonverbal Interaction in Medical Communication
http://verlag-gespraechsforschung.de/2025/medical-communication.html

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz: Mapping Goffman's Invisible College
https://www.mediastudies.press/mapping-goffman

Zhuolun Li et al.: Metaphor as a Springboard to Scientific 
Communication: A Large-Scale Study of the Use of Lexical Metaphors 
Across Disciplines
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-05677-z

Liverpool University Press in partnership with JSTOR: Path to Open -- 
2026 Selection of Open Access (OA) Monographs
https://about.jstor.org/products/books/path-to-open/titles/

Sarah K. McKenzie et al.: Understanding Men's Lived Experience of Mental 
Distress Through Metaphors
https://doi.org/10.1177/15579883241260920

Elena Negrea-Busuioc et al: The Heart Is a Pump, a Dollhouse, a Car or a 
Ship: How Students Use Conventional and Spontaneously Generated Creative 
Metaphors to Understand Biology Concepts.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-025-00691-8

Pen America (Ed.): Expanding the Web of Control. America's Censored 
Campuses 2025
https://pen.org/report/americas-censored-campuses-25-web-of-control/

Philip Porwol, Ingrid Scharlau: Is Explaining More Like Showing or More 
Like Building? -- Agency in Metaphors of Explaining
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1628706/full 


Lucas Poy, Hannes Rolf (Eds.): Rent Strikes. A History of Collective 
Tenant Actions Across the World
https://uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-strikes/

Michaela Rizzolli et al.: Preparing and Documenting Ethnographic Data 
for Archiving and Subsequent Use. An Overview for Researchers
https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/entities/publication/a90c97f2-7181-487c-bad2-f3c7c00270ad 


Royal Society: What does "Subscribe to Open" Mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA6B1dx7ki8

Martina Schaefer et al.: Societal Impact of Transdisciplinary and 
Participatory Research: A Guide for Assessment
https://zenodo.org/records/17937353

Christian Schneijderberg et al.: The Handbook of Qualitative and 
Quantitative Content Analysis. Introduction to Classical, Digital, 
AI-supported, and Automated Data Analysis
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003496397

Oliver Spiess: Exploring Participatory Dynamics in Conversational 
Argumentation: Operationalizations, Visualizations, and Cooccurrences
http://www.gespraechsforschung-online.de/2025.html

Fengying Ye et al.: Unveiling LLMs' Metaphorical Understanding: 
Exploring Conceptual Irrelevance, Context Leveraging and Syntactic 
Influence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04120


D. Open Access News

See http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp/items for Additional Open 
Access News.

 ---> Texts, etc.

Kat Boboris: Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and 
Position Papers in arXiv CS Category
https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category/ 


Cambridge University Press: Publishing Futures: Working Together to 
Deliver Radical Change in Academic Publishing
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-file-manager/file/68ef9df9a6c3702e57eae12a/Cambridge-University-Press-Publishing-futures.pdf 


Giovanni Colavizza et al.: An Analysis of the Effects of Open Science 
Indicators on Citations in the French Open Science Monitor
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.20747

Humberto Debat et al.: How the Global South Is Reshaping Scholarly 
Communication
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.108426

Juliane Finger et al.: Open Access Days 2025: Goal Achieved -- Or How 
Can It (Ever) Be Accomplished?
https://www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2025/10/open-access-days-2025-goal-achieved-or-how-can-it-ever-be-accomplished/

Ulrich Herb et al.: Open Divide -- Critical Studies on Open Access 2025/2026
https://av.tib.eu/series/1941

Vincent Heuveline et al. (Hrsg.): E-Science-Tage 2025. Research Data 
Management: Challenges in a Changing World
https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de//heibooks/catalog/book/1652

Christian Kaier et al.: Scholarly Publications: Criteria, Types, and 
Recognition From the Researchers' Perspective
https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.2019

Natalia Kaliuzhna et al.: Hurdles to Open Access Publishing Faced by 
Authors: A Scoping Literature Teview From 2004 to 2023
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250257

Malavika Legge et al.: Embracing the Complexity of "100% OA": From 
Percentage to Participation
https://zenodo.org/records/17348123

OASPA: Diamond OA Communities-of-Practice in Action: Wayfinders #6
https://www.oaspa.org/events/diamond-oa-communities-of-practice-in-action-wayfinders-6/ 


Claire Redhead: Latest OASPA Data Shows Dramatic Growth in OA Articles 
From Past Decades is Plateauing
https://www.oaspa.org/news/latest-oaspa-data-shows-dramatic-growth-in-oa-articles-from-past-decades-is-plateauing/ 


Research on Research Institute (RoRI) et al.: Applicants as Reviewers: 
Evaluating the Risks, Benefits, and Potential of Distributed Peer Review 
for Grant Funding Allocations
https://rori.figshare.com/articles/preprint/_b_Applicants_as_Reviewers_Evaluating_the_Risks_Benefits_and_Potential_of_Distributed_Peer_Review_for_Grant_Funding_Allocations_b_b_b_RoRI_Working_Paper_No_17_/29994841?file=57455452 


Bernhard Sabel, Dan Larhammar: Reformation of Science Publishing: The 
Stockholm Declaration Open Access
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/12/11/251805/234088/Reformation-of-science-publishing-the-Stockholm 


Tobias Steiner et al.: International Metadata Recommendations, and 
Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters
https://zenodo.org/records/18173982

UN Secretary-General's Scientific Advisory Board: Statement on Open Science
https://www.un.org/scientific-advisory-board/sites/default/files/2025-09/Open%20Science%20Statement_1.pdf 


---> Journals

Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/

Open Access Journals Toolkit
https://www.oajournals-toolkit.org/

Directory of Open Access Books
https://doabooks.org/

Culture Machine, 24
https://culturemachine.net/archives/aesthetics-of-biomachines/

Democratic Theory, 12(2)
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/democratic-theory/12/2/democratic-theory.12.issue-2.xml 


Ethnologia Europaea, 55(2)
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/ethnologia-europaea/ethnologia-europaea-overview.xml?tab_body=latestIssueToc-4643 


February Journal, 5
https://thefebruaryjournal.org/index.php/tfj/issue/view/11

First Monday, 31(1)
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/782

Journal of Electronic Publishing, 28(3)
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/439/info/

Media Theory, 9(2)
https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/issue/view/53

Politics and Governance, 14
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/issue/view/479

Scottish Journal of Open Research, 1
https://journals.gla.ac.uk/SJOR/issue/view/41

Social Inclusion, 13
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/view/526

Swiss Journal for Sociocultural Anthropology, 31(1)
https://journal-sa.ch/issue/view/1373

TATuP - Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice, 34(3)
https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/issue/view/185

Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, 72(185)
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/theoria/72/185/theoria.72.issue-185.xml 


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