Call for Papers
Strategies in
Qualitative Research: Using QSR Software
13-15 September 2006
University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
The University of Durham is pleased to
announce the seventh international conference on Strategies
in Qualitative Research. It brings together researchers
conducting qualitative projects or teaching with the
qualitative software developed by QSR International.
Deadline: 1
July 2006
Submitting a paper or
session proposal
Contributions are encouraged from any
discipline and from students, teachers and researchers.
Conference sessions, workshops and round table discussions
will cover a wide range of topics related to issues of
learning software, ways of teaching it and supervising
projects, and strategies for research in many methods and
disciplines.
You can submit a paper or submit to organise a session in
any of the following themes:
1.Theory,
Method and Software
Exploring the impact of theoretical
perspective and methodology on the applicability and use of
QSR software. From Grounded Theory, Narrative &
Discourse Analysis, IPA and Phenomenology... to Sociology,
Psychology, Education, History and Geography....
2.Managing
'big' qualitative projects
Experiences and techniques for
cross-disciplinary collaboration and team-working,
longitudinal projects and secondary analysis of qualitative
data.
3.Demonstrating and
recognising 'quality' in qualitative research using QSR
software
Discussing ways of using software to increase
rigour and transparency in the qualitative research
process. Experiences from students and researchers using
software and teachers of qualitative methods.
4.Sharing
innovative techniques and strategies
Have you come up with a particular way of
using QSR software for your project? Are you using it in
combination with other packages? Or are you doing a
mixed-methods project? Share your tips and tricks.
5.Communicating
research with software
This session will include issues of
communications with non-users: how to situate software as
an appropriate tool but not a magic wand? Software's role
in making the tacit explicit.
6.Other
topics
Nominate a topic for a session and submit a
paper or papers for that topic.
Send abstracts of up to 600 words by email attachment to
c.silver@surrey.ac.uk by the deadline,
1st July 2006.
Conference enquiries by email to strategies.conference@durham.ac.uk