Call for Abstracts

A DAY IN QUALITATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Pre-Conference Event at the 8th International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

The goal of the Day in Qualitative Psychology is to create opportunities for the promotion and celebration of qualitative inquiry within psychology. The increasing presence of qualitative methodologies in the social sciences has met much resistance with the field of psychology, especially in the United States. Psychology has by and large remained outside the wave of qualitative research, which is paradoxical, since psychology addresses issues pertaining the human doings and experiences, on individual and collective levels, for which interpretative methods seem indispensable.

The Day in Qualitative Psychology is a pre-conference event to the International, Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI-2012) at the University of Illinois. Both of these conferences will provide ample opportunities for lively and exciting debates on qualitative inquiry as a shared, global endeavor, while engaging social justice and addressing racial, ethnic, gender, and environmental disparities in education, healthcare, and psychological wellbeing.

We now invite researchers, practitioners, scholars, instructors, students, and everyone else within all subfields of psychology, to join us for a Day in Qualitative Psychology, on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 – one day before the beginning of QI- 2012. This event will be the opportunity to reflect upon the status of qualitative inquiry in psychology. Please come and share your work, thoughts, and ideas about qualitative psychology and about how to build psychology as an innovative qualitative discipline for the twenty-first century.

Delegates are asked to submit an original abstract (150 words) of their presentation. We also welcome proposals for panels of three to five speakers on specific topics. To propose a panel, the panel’s Chair should provide a title, abstract, and list of presenters. The presenters will individually submit the abstract of their talk.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of suitable topics:

• Qualitative research and
  • clinical or counselling psychology
  • community psychology
  • action research
  • liberation or anti-oppressive psychologies
  • work and organizational psychology
  • identity, culture, and society
  • evidence based practice
• The history of qualitative psychology
• Postmodern, post-structural, and/or critical theories in applied qualitative methodologies
• Psychoanalysis as qualitative inquiry
• Art-based research
• Feminism, gender and queer theory in qualitative psychology
• Teaching and publishing qualitative research in psychology
• Qualitative methodologies in successful grant proposal

Submissions to the Day in Qualitative Psychology will be accepted online (http:// www.icqi.org/) until December1, 2011. Notification of acceptance will be approximately one week after the submission deadline. To be part of the final programs, presenters have to register for the congress.

If you have questions about the event, or wish to be kept updated on this and related topics, please contact one of the organizers of the Day in Qualitative Psychology:

Angelo Benozzo, University of Valle d’Aosta, Italy, a.benozzo@univda.it
Svend Brinkmann, University of Aalborg, Denmark, svendb@hum.aau.dk
Cesar Cisneros Puebla, UAM Iztapalapa, Mexico, csh@xanum.uam.mx
Marco Gemignani, Duquesne University, USA, gemignanim@duq.edu (Chair of the Organizing Committee)