Mitch Allen, Publisher, Left Coast Press, Inc.

Workshop title: PUBLISHING A QUALITATIVE STUDY

Abstract:This workshop is designed to give the researcher guidance on how to publish a qualitative study. Taught by one of the leading publishers of qualitative books, you will learn how to think about your book or article as a publisher or journal editor would, how to sell them on your idea, and how to get the writing finished. Using instruction, brief exercises, and group discussion, you will be given strategies for approaching and convincing a publisher to publish your book, ways to make your article attractive to editors, and concrete steps for finishing that half-done study on your computer. Bring your book or article idea to be discussed.

MITCH ALLEN is Publisher of Left Coast Press, Inc., which produces of academic books, journals, and videos in the social sciences and humanities. Founded in 2005, Left Coast has developed book series with Janice Morse, Norman Denzin, Yvonna Lincoln, Carolyn Ellis, and Art Bochner, and is publisher of the official journal and book series of the Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Prior to Left Coast, Mitch founded and ran AltaMira Press. He is also responsible for developing the qualitative research list for Sage Publications during his 20 years at Sage. Qualitative authors whose work he has sponsored resembles a who’s who of the field: Denzin, Lincoln, Wolcott, Whyte, Miles, Guba, Morse, Van Maanen, Richardson, Agar, Blumer, Lofland, Olesen, Patton, Richardson, Bernard, Strauss, LeCompte, Schensul, Delamont, Ellis, Atkinson, Morgan, among many others. Allen has a Ph.D. in archaeology, is author of one book and two dozen articles, and has run numerous workshops on academic publishing.

Workshop Title: "Writing Lives and Writing Deaths"

Workshop Title: "Ungrounded theory: how to do it, undo it, do it to others, and say sorry"

Greg Dimitriadis & George Kambereli

Workshop title:The Critical Use of Focus Groups

Workshop Title: "New Experimental Writing Forms"

Workshop Title: The Role of Software in Qualitative Analysis

Abstract:

Level and pre-requisite skill: Intermediate Intended

Audience: Researchers working with qualitative data in the form of interviews, focus group data and fieldnotes.

Session Goals:
1. Attendees will learn the value of "context" in analytic decision-making.
2. Attendees will learn processes that support the evolution of coding qualitative data.
3. Attendees will learn strategies for moving forward through coding to latter phases of ascertaining meaning from qualitative data.
4. Attendees will learn how and when to integrate qualitative software into the analysis process.

The primary goal of this session is to provide tools to encourage researchers to maintain their role as primary agents of their analysis. Coding and qualitative software are presented as resources available to assist analysis. Neither is lauded as central or necessary to analysis. Both are heuristic devices that assist the search for meaning in qualitative data. The session agenda is designed to use practical experience with real data, in the form of seminar, to direct discussion of important principles that shape qualitative analysis. "Context" is explored from several angles as a way to emphasize the importance of movement from the particular to the holistic. Pre-code work can outline the context of data collection episodes. Code evolution should occur with conscious attention to the context of an entire research project. Memo writing is presented as a resource for considering context of real-life meaning to what we see in data. Qualitative software is presented as a useful tool to integrate into analysis, but not as a solution to analysis challenges.  

Workshop Title: "Qualitative Research and Social Transformation in the Disability Community"

Abstract:This workshop will examine the role of qualitative research as a contributor to the social transformation agenda of the disability community. The philosophical assumptions of the transformative paradigm will be used to examine what is meant by ethical approaches to research with the disability community in terms of the promotion of human rights and social justice. Strategies for eliciting and documenting realities as they are experienced by people with disabilities will be discussed in terms of dimensions of diversity that are relevant in specific contexts (e.g., use of various modes of communication, need for supportive accommodations). Methods for building relationships with people with disabilities will be shared based on cultural respect and partnership development. Methodological implications for qualitative (and mixed methods) will be discussed as they are applicable for the contribution to the social transformation agenda. This workshop encourages people with disabilities and people who work with the disability community to engage in discussions of strategies and experiences relevant to these topics.

Workshop Title: "Widening the Gyre:  Writing Qualitative Inquiry for Readers Outside the Academy"

Abstract:This workshop invites participants to explore the pragmatics of translating qualitative academic work (e.g., the scholarship of stories and selves) into narratives for wider public audiences.  We will examine the "5 R's" of creative nonfiction as well as ways and means of representing yourself and your work to agents and editors, writing query letters, and of creating author websites and blogs.

Anne Kuckartz

Workshop title:Introduction into MAXQDA: Setting up Your Data for a Computer Assisted Analysis

Abstract:This workshop will demonstrate the essential steps for a computer assisted qualitative study. It concentrates on the basic tasks of data analysis: Coding, writing memos, analysing data (searching for and interpreting selected segments of the texts), constructing theory. The main focus will be on revealing ways to use the computer as a tool without loosing control and flexibility, neither in respect to the data analysis nor in respect to the management of knowledge produced throughout the analysis. These topics are approached as an introduction into MAXQDA 2007, one of the leading software tools for qualitative data analysis. The workshop is hands-on, so participants should bring their own laptop.

Workshop Title: "An Introduction to Ethnodrama: Autoethnography as Monologue"

Workshop Title: "Advances in Mixed Methods Design"

Workshop Title: "Grounded Theory Methodologies for Social Justice Projects"

Abstract:This workshop session introduces ways to use grounded theory methods to study social justice issues.  Grounded theory methods consist of flexible guidelines to adopt, alter, and fit particular research problems, not to apply mechanically.  With these guidelines, you expedite and systematize your data gathering and analysis.  These methods and the area of social justice are treated as serving mutually complementary purposes.  Grounded theory methods can assist social justice researchers in making their work more analytic, precise, and compelling.  A focus on social justice can help grounded theorists to move their methods into macro analyses.  Major grounded theory strategies will be presented with suggestions about how use them to spark fresh ideas about data.  Familiarity with grounded theory methods is helpful but is not necessary.  The work session covers an overview of basic guidelines and includes several hands-on exercises.  If you have collected some qualitative data, bring a completed interview, set of fieldnotes, or document to analyze.  If you do not have data yet, we will supply qualitative data for you.  If you prefer to use a laptop for writing, bring one, but you can complete the exercises without a computer.

Arthur Bochner & Carolyn Ellis

Workshop Title: "Writing Autoethnography and Narrative in Qualitative Research"

Ma. del Consuelo Chapela, Carolina Martínez-Salgado,& Addis Abeba Salinas

Workshop Title: "Understanding and Doing Interpretation"

Abstract: First we will present a brief insight into interpretation from three perspectives: understanding of the human being as constructor of meaning and language; historic development of interpretation; and the importance of interpretation for the achievement of QI social action. Next we will experience interpretation in a way that we can see interpretation potential and also some frequent interpretation mistakes. Finally we will dialogue about the importance of an interpretation that is deep, coherent, and respectful of informants for critical QI action. If you are going to participate in this workshop, you are encouraged to bring along with you a small object with a particular value for you that you particularly cherish.

"QI08. TALLER: ENTENDIENDO Y HACIENDO INTERPRETACIÓN"

Ma. del Consuelo Chapela, Carolina Martínez-Salgado, and Addis Abeba Salinas Primero haremos un breve recorrido por los fundamentos de la interpretación desde tres perspectivas: la del entendimiento del ser humano constructor de significado y lenguaje; la del desarrollo histórico de la interpretación; y la de la importancia de la interpretación para lograr la acción de la metodología cualitativa en el cambio social. Enseguida llevaremos a cabo algunas experiencias prácticas de interpretación que nos permitan identificar algunos errores frecuentes en la interpretación. Finalmente dialogaremos sobre la importancia que tiene la interpretación profunda, coherente y respetuosa del informante para la acción crítica de la averiguación cualitativa. Se solicita a quienes se inscriban en este taller que traigan un pequeño objeto al que en un momento de su vida hayan asignado un valor particular y que resguarden como algo valioso.

Workshop Title: "Interpreting, Writing Up and Evaluating Qualitative Materials"

Workshop Title: "Designing a Mixed Methods Study"

Workshop Title: "Performance Ethnography"

Workshop Title: "Evidence Based Social Work: Where are we Going? How do we Get There?"

Workshop Title: "Performative Writing"

Workshop Title: "Computer Assisted Software for Qualitative Data Analysis: How to Integrate Software into Your Analysis of Qualitative Data"

Aisha Durham

Workshop title: Working the Limits of Voice 

Abstract: Challenging naïve notions of voice in qualitative inquiry is the focus of this workshop. Such “troubling” of voice seeks to put voice under poststructural scrutiny in order to position voice as productive of meaning. This is done in order to challenge the constraints that limit what “counts” as voice, and therefore data, in traditional qualitative research. Using transcripts and published work, participants will consider deconstructive strategies that seek the limits of voice--the snags and interruptions containing the promise of surprise and missed meaning. An understanding of what counts as voice, data or evidence that seems to limit those voices to which we customarily attend in “listening” to our participants and analyzing our “data” will be challenged toward a consideration of that which is to be learned from “evidence” that has previously gone unnamed and unnoticed.

Workshop Title: "Arts-Based Research: Approaches and Practices"

Workshop Title: "Introduction to new NVivo 8 software for qualitative research"