Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Norman Denzin, 1941-2023: The Father of Qualitative Research
Sociologist Norman K. Denzin, whose pioneering work in developing and popularizing qualitative research methodology saw him dubbed “the father of qualitative research,” died on August 6 in Urbana, Illinois. He was 82.
In Defense of Qualitative Research – A PhD Researcher’s Experience
The authors argues that there is a bias against qualitative research, and yet not every type of data can be handled using quantitative, and human behavior cannot always be reduced to numbers.
Webinar: Tools for Coding Qualitative Data
After conducting qualitative interviews, how do you analyze and make sense of the data? Join a free online tutorial to get an […]
Self and Social: An Interview About Autoethnography
Janet Salmons, the methods guru at our sister site MethodSapce, interviewed Dr. Peter Gloviczki about his use of autoethnographic methods.
Cheryl Poth on the Nexus of Methodologies
Attending a workshop conducted by John Creswell changed Cheryl Poth’s academic trajectory, confirming an earlier epiphany that purely quantitative approaches weren’t telling the whole story that methodology can reveal. A decade and half later, Poth -joined Creswell to craft a fourth edition of his venerable “Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design.”.
John Creswell on the Value of the Qualitative Approach
The the Textbook & Academic Authors Association has awarded the fourth edition of “Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design” its longevity award. In recognition of that, we talk with John Creswell, who has been behind the beloved book since its debut in the 1990s.
Use Qualitative Methods In Mining the Data Gold Rush
Mylynn Felt, author of a popular paper on social media and the social sciences, hopes to see a growing blend of established qualitative techniques with newly emerging big data research methods in future social science work.
Stories and Numbers Should Go Together: Alex Clark on Methods
Methods have never been more pragmatic, more eclectic, and more dynamic than they are today, says Alex Clark, the editor of the International Journal of Qualitative Methods.
