[FQS] 27(2) online

Katja Mruck <katja.mruck@qualitative-forschung.de> · Sat, 30 May 2026 10:11:49 +0200

Dear All,

We would like to inform you that FQS 27(2) is available online (see 

https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/86 for the 

current issue and 

https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/archive for 

former issues). This issue includes a collection of single contributions 

as well as articles belonging to the FQS Debates on "Qualitative 

Research and Ethics," "Quality of Qualitative Research," "Teaching and 

Learning Qualitative Methods" and "We Are Talking About Ourselves!" and 

contributions to the sections "FQS Reviews" and "FQS Conferences." All 

in all, 29 authors from 9 countries contributed to the new issue.

A. FQS 27(2)
B. From Former Issues
C. Inside FQS
D. Conferences
E. Resources
F. Open Access News

Enjoy reading,
Patrik Dahl & Katja Mruck

Ps: FQS is an open-access journal: All articles are available free of 

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A. FQS 27(2)
https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/86

Marc Blueml (Germany): Approaches to Dialectical Social Research: 

Methodological Insights From Early Critical Theory

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4494

Carla De Tona (Italy): Structurally Bounded Co-Participation: Migrants' 

Position in European Research, a Critical Methodological Reflection on 

the MICADO Bologna Experience

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4523

David Elniski (Canada): Qualitative Description: A Pragmatic Methodology 

for Workplace Safety Researchers and Professionals Alike

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4502

Kai Ginkel (Austria): Listening Postures: Interdisciplinary "Special 

Zones" as Spaces of Reflection and Knowledge Production

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4487

Christian Goetzl (Germany): Participatory Research Involving People With 

Pedophilic Disorder

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4583

Vedat Kızıl (Tuerkiye): Large Language Models and Reflexivity in 

Qualitative Research: Introducing Hybrid Reflexivity Framework

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4564

Eva Kleinlein (Austria): Reimagining Grounded Theory Methodology for 

Transcultural Research. Conducting Qualitative Research in Times of 

Globalization

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4578

Jessica Luetgens (Switzerland): Memes, Influencers and Political 

Socialization: Exploring Youth Engagement With Entertaining Digital Content

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4628

Karina Moutinho (Brazil), Andréa Paula Pantoja Garvey (USA), Josene 

Ferreira Batista (Brazil): Imagining Palliative Care: Ambivalence and 

the Meaning-Making Process

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4490

Pauline Prevett (UK): Theory-Operationalising Tool Co-Creation: Building 

Methodology-Specific Analysis Tools Through Human-AI Collaboration. A 

Position Statement for Qualitative Research Methodology

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4596

Aleah Ranjitsingh, Brandon Abram (USA): Recognizing Selves in Others: 

Maneuvering Dougla and Navigating a Bi-Racial Black/White Racial 

Identity in the United States. A Duoethnography

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4539

---> FQS Debate: Qualitative Research and Ethics

Tanja Gangarova (Germany): (Re)Imagining the Ethics of Knowledge 

Creation: Moving Toward Loving and Undisciplined, Refusal-Oriented 

Community-Based Participatory Research

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4554

---> FQS Debate: Quality of Qualitative Research

Thomas Byrne (USA): Max Van Manen's Husserl: Phenomenological Grounding 

and Rhetorical Authority

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4541

---> FQS Debate: Teaching and Learning Qualitative Methods

Clara Holzinger, Harald Pasch, Sylvi Rennert (Austria): Integrating 

Translation and Interpreting Into Qualitative Methods Teaching: Didactic 

Insights From an Interdisciplinary Collaboration

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4521

---> FQS Debate: We Are Talking About Ourselves!

Kathrin Gaertner, Michael Penkler (Austria): Painful Insight: 

Vulnerability, Emotion, and Academic Armor in Qualitative Research

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4522

---> FQS Conferences

Susanne Friese, Fabio Roman Lieder, Monika Gesing, Mascha Liening, 

Kathrin Zimmermann, Maik Arnold (Germany): Conference Report: 

AIAgents4Qual: What Happens When AI Becomes the Primary Actor in 

Qualitative Research?

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4701

---> FQS Reviews

Léonie Bisang (Switzerland): Review Essay: Between Description and 

Objectification. A Critical Review

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4691

Dominique Schirmer (Germany): Review Essay: Representativeness in 

Qualitative Research. Reflections on Generalization in a Comparison of 

Qualitative and Quantitative Research Strategies

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.2.4702

B. From Prior Issues

Now also in English translation:
Ulrike Loch (Italy): Traces of Traumatizations in Narrative Interviews
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-9.1.320

C. Inside FQS

For her contribution, "Analyzing Visual Analysis Practices: Evidence 

Constructions in Investigation Videos by Forensic Architecture" 

(https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.2.4431), published in FQS 26(2), our 

author Mina Godarzani-Bakhtiari was awarded with the Christel Hopf Prize 

2025. Further information can be found here: 

https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/announcement/view/22

D. Conferences

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, Bonn, Germany

Workshop "Building Trust in European Research: Evolving Models of Ethics 

Review and Governance in the Social Sciences and Humanities" and Meeting 

of the Network on Research Ethics Committees in the Social Sciences

https://neks.info/

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

12-13 June, Graz, Austria

Conference "Trauma in Eastern Europe -- Concept, Experience, Memory in 

Ethnography and Historical Anthropology"

https://static.uni-graz.at/fileadmin/_files/_gewi_sites/_kulturanthropologie/Veranstaltungen/Folder_Conference_Trauma-in-Eastern-Europe.pdf

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 

2-3 July, Hamburg, Germany
Workshop "Ethnography and Law: Methods and Challenges in Times of Crisis"

https://www.ethnologie.uni-hamburg.de/ueber-das-institut/aktuelles/2025-12-02-law-and-ethnography.html 

8-10 July, Lyon, France

3rd Conference of the Association of European Qualitative Researchers in 

Psychology

https://www.equip2026.inviteo.fr/

9-10 July, Essen, Germany

Workshop "Women as Victims or Perpetrators of Violence: An International 

Perspective"

https://mariejahodacenter.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/veranstaltung/workshop-women-as-victims-or-perpetrators-of-violence-an-international-perspective/

14. July, online

Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (SQIP) Pre-Conference 

"Narrating the Needs of Our Time: Inquiries of Hope, Connection, and 

Possibility from Global Perspectives"

https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/society_for_qualitative_inquiry_-2269.html

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

1-3 September, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Conference "Social Work Resistance: Care for Change"
https://iuc.hr/programme/2089

2-4 September, Fribourg, Switzerland

Swiss Sociological Association Conference 2026 "Communities and 

Societies in Movement"

https://events.unifr.ch/ssa-conference2026/en/

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/

15-17 September, Berlin, Germany
18th Berlin Open Access Conference (B18)
https://oa2020.org/b18-conference/

15-18 September, Sheffield, UK
OpenFest Conference "Open Research: People and Place"
https://sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch/events/openfest-2026

21-23 September, Zagreb, Croatia
OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2026
https://www.oaspa.org/events/oaspa-2026-preliminary-programme/

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 

13-15 November, Maynooth, Ireland

History of Education Society Conference "Democracy and Education: 

Histories of Inclusion and Exclusion"

https://hes2026.wixsite.com/hes2026maynooth

1-2 December, Osnabrueck, Germany

Workshop "Data Practices from below: Alternative Archiving, 

Counter-Mapping and Social-Media Activism in Response to Violence, 

Oppression and Ignorance"

https://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/imis/aktuelles-veranstaltungen/detail-news/2026/05/call-for-papers-workshop-data-practices-from-below

27-30 January 2027, Innsbruck, Austria

International Conference of the Research Center "Cultures in Contact 

(KiK) "the art of science of art"

https://www.uibk.ac.at/media/filer_public/c0/3d/c03d1a07-8920-4151-819d-b791e48448f2/call_kik_2027_english.pdf

18-19 February 2027, Zuerich, Switzerland

Conference "Evidence -- Excellence -- Relevance? Current Perspectives on 

the Contested Relations Between Research, Practice, and Politics"

https://www.soziopolis.de/veranstaltungen/konferenz-kongress-symposium/evidence-excellence-relevance-current-perspectives-on-the-contested-relations-between-research-practice-and-politics.html

9-11 March 2027, Tokyo, Japan

VIII. Conference of the International Alfred Schutz Circle: "(How) Is it 

Possible to Live together? On the We-Relationship and Collective Life"

https://www.schutzcircle.org/

23-25 March 2027, online

The Qualitative Report 18. Annual Conference: "'Researcher, Know 

Thyself' in the Age of AI"

https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqrc/eighteenth/

4-10 July 2027, Gwangju, South Korea
XXI. ISA World Congress of Sociology
https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/gwangju-2027

E. Resources

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

CAQDAS Networking Project: Qual-AI

https://www.surrey.ac.uk/computer-assisted-qualitative-data-analysis/qual-ai 

Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hTIfev5Fuxs16Onl7lLlAFBIkwK1nf1dRES_yhgHwU4/viewform?edit_requested=true

Kai Droege: noScribe -- Free Interview Transcription with AI (new Website)
https://noscribe.de/en/

European Commission: Living Guidelines on the Responsible Use of 

Generative AI in Research (Updated Version May 2026)

https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/document/download/2b6cf7e5-36ac-41cb-aab5-0d32050143dc_en?filename=ec_rtd_ai-guidelines.pdf

Jeanine Evers, Thorsten Pehl: Thinking About Commercial AI and Its 

Consequences for Qualitative Research: Rule by Law Versus Scientific 

Integrity

https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/109026/ssoar-2026-evers_et_al-Thinking_about_commercial_AI_and.pdf

Jeanine Evers, Thorsten Pehl: An Experiment With AI: Comparing Human 

Argumentation Analysis With an LLM

https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/109244/ssoar-2026-evers_et_al-An_experiment_with_AI_comparing.pdf

Janine Ewen: Photo Elicitation as a Tool for Epiphanic Healing in Adult 

Child Survivors of Domestic Abuse

https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/news/show.php?article=5879

Vassilis Galanos et al.: Towards Mapping and Defining Critical Hype 

Studies: Multidisciplinary Insights and Future Directions

https://zenodo.org/records/18764034

Sam Ladner: Strategic Foresight: An Essential Tool in the Applied Qual 

Researcher's Toolkit

https://blogs.surrey.ac.uk/caqdas/2026/03/12/strategic-foresight-an-essential-tool-in-the-applied-qual-researchers-toolkit/

NCRM Collaborative and Participatory MSIG: Advocating for Qualitative 

Research in Professional, Policy and Academic Contexts

https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/news/show.php?article=5880

Stefan Raediker: AI-Assisted Analysis of Qualitative Data With MAXQDA

https://www.maxqda-press.com/catalog/guides/ai-assisted-analysis-of-qualitative-data-with-maxqda 

Christina Silver: Are We Losing Our (Qualitative) Minds if We Use 

Generative AI?

https://www.qdas.co.uk/post/are-we-losing-our-qualitative-minds-if-we-use-generative-ai

The Fieldwork Initiative: A grassroots network of over 3,500 students 

and researchers facing trauma, unsafe conditions, or sexual harassment 

and assault during research fieldwork

https://www.fieldworkinitiative.org/

The Researcher Wellbeing Project
https://www.bath.ac.uk/projects/the-researcher-wellbeing-project-rwp-addressing-researcher-distress-trauma-and-secondary-trauma/

Hella von Unger, Anna Huber, Nevien Kerk: CHANGER Manual: Peer-Based 

Ethical Consultation for Qualitative Research

https://zenodo.org/records/19097525

Yves Winkin: From Erving to Goffman: A Work in Performance?
https://www.mediastudies.press/from-erving-to-goffman-a-work-in-performance

F. Open Access News

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

Access News.

Radical Open Access Collective
https://radicaloa.org/

Open Research Europe
https://ore.eu/

 ---> Texts, etc.

Jenni Adams, Miranda Barnes, Samuel Moore (Eds.): Special Issue: Open 

Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences

https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/456/info/

Jenni Adams, Miranda Barnes, Samuel Moore, Stephen Pinfield, Siddharth 

Soni: Openness in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Documenting 

Open Research Practices Beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report)

https://doi.org/10.17613/jn1y1-mj246

Carolin Becklas Dorow, Jonas Hauss: Empowering Democracy Through Open Access
https://av.tib.eu/media/72335

Fernanda Beigel: Untangling the Future of Diamond Access: Discussing 

Quality Standards for the Re-communalization of Scholarly Publishing

https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WJDS/6.1.2

Nate Breznau: The Path Toward Ethical Science is Paved With Diamonds
https://crowdid.hypotheses.org/2144

Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR): Navigating the Uneasy 

Interdependence of AI and Open Science

https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/navigating-the-uneasy-interdependence-of-ai-and-open-science/

Creative Commons: CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI
https://creativecommons.org/cc-signals/

Paola Corti, Andrea Davidson, Vanessa Proudman, Paul Stacey, Robert van 

der Vooren, Wilma van Wezenbeek: The Case for Connecting the Opens. A 

SPARC Europe Position Paper

https://zenodo.org/records/17572650

Patrick Dunleavy, Timothy Monteath: Doing Open Social Science. A Guide 

for Researchers.

https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.dos

European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA), 

Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL), International Federation of 

Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Ligue des Bibliothèques 

Européennes de Recherche (LIBER), Open Scholarly Communication in the 

European Research Area for Social Sciences and Humanities (OPERAS), 

SPARC Europe: Joint Statement on Open Science: Open Science as a Pillar 

for Strengthening the European Research Area. Opportunities and 

Remaining Barriers

https://zenodo.org/records/20165184

Ulrich Herb, Joachim Schoepfel: The Politics of Open Knowledge: 

Production, Certification, and Control

https://zenodo.org/records/19576855

Marcel Knoechelmann: The Democratisation Myth. Open Access and the 

Solidification of Epistemic Injustices

https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.94964

Paul Litvak: The Future of Academic Journals?
https://www.paullitvak.com/p/the-future-of-academic-journals

Samuel Moore, Miranda L. Barnes, Eleanor Parmenter: New Report Urges 

Broader Definition of "Open Research" to Include Arts, Humanities and 

Social Science Practices

https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/morphss-open-research-report

Tim O'Reilly: The Collaborative Exoskeleton of AI Sciences
https://asimovaddendum.substack.com/p/the-collaborative-exoskeleton-of

Pilar Rico-Castro, Virginia de Pablo Llorente, Laura Bonora Eve (Eds.): 

Landscape Report on Diamond Open Access Publishing in Africa, Europe, 

and Latin America

https://zenodo.org/records/18377966

Cristina Rosemberg, Aphra Murray, Alexander Holmes, Shrishti Kajaria: 

The Economic Benefits of Open Science. Independent Report

https://44092021.hs-sites.com/hubfs/Brand/Masterbrand/Web/Other/Redefining%20Project/PLOS_Technopolis_Economic_Benefits_of_Open_Science_Independent_Report_2026.pdf?hsCtaAttrib=208656830265

Benedetta Siviero, Lena Ryzhova: Diamond Open Access: A Lifeline for the 

Monograph?

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/02/guest-post-diamond-open-access-a-lifeline-for-the-monograph/ 

Helene Strauss, Carolin Becklas Dorow: 10 Reasons for Open Access
https://av.tib.eu/media/72493

Anna Tumadóttir, Sarah Hinchliff Pearson: From Signals to 

Infrastructure: Strengthening the Commons for the AI Era

https://creativecommons.org/2026/05/13/from-signals-to-infrastructure-strengthening-the-commons-for-the-ai-era/ 

Haileleul Woldemariam, Stephen Visagie: The Story Behind the Journal: 

Namibian Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Communication Studies 

(NJLLCS)

https://blog.doaj.org/2026/05/18/the-story-behind-the-journal-namibian-journal-of-linguistics-literature-and-communication-studies-njllcs/ 

---> 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/

Contention, 14(1)

https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/contention/14/1/contention.14.issue-1.xml 

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 

Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 21(1)
https://ejol.aau.edu.et/index.php/EJOSSAH

Ethnologia Europaea, 55(2)

https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/ethnologia-europaea/ethnologia-europaea-overview.xml?tab_body=latestIssueToc-4643 

February Journal, 6
https://thefebruaryjournal.org/index.php/tfj/issue/view/12

First Monday, 31(4)
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/790

Journal of Electronic Publishing, 29(1)
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/456/info/

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

Namibian Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Communication Studies, 19(1)
https://journals.nust.na/index.php/njlc/issue/view/9

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, 14
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/view/468

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

TATuP - Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice, 35(1)
https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/en/issue/view/186

Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, 73(186)
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/theoria/73/186/theoria.73.issue-186.xml

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