Morning Session 8:30 AM -11:30 AM

1. D. Soyini Madison

Workshop Title: Radical Performance, Neoliberalism, and Human Rights

    What is the Radical in radical performance? How do neoliberal policies affect human rights? How does the "commodification of everything" lead to human atrocities? What is a dramaturgy of public dissent? In the struggle for human rights - whether in the form of collective opposition or individual resistance - radical performance confronts the underpinnings and the consequences of power regimes, hegemonic controls, and economic global restructuring that are responsible for myriad forms of human suffering. This workshop will explore how oppositional performance labors to expose, trouble, and break the covert and overt links between human rights and political economy. It will respond to key controversies and debates surrounding causation of human rights violations: acts by the "unenlightened" or the consequences of dire poverty; local greed or global capitalism; the violence of traditional dogma or the dehumanization of secular and individualist modernity. We will examine how transnational activism and local acts take the form of oppositional or alternative performances in order to build social movements and global networks.

2.Greg Dimitriadis & George Kamberelis

Workshop Title: The Critical Use of Focus Groups

In this workshop, we will explore focus groups as productive sites for developing rich understandings of social phenomena, for engaging in pedagogy and reflection, and for doing political work. These related activities are all central to conducting research in what Denzin and Lincoln have called the eighth moment of qualitative inquiry.
Basically, focus groups are collective conversations or group interviews. They can be small or large, directed or non-directed. Focus groups have been used for a wide range of purposes over the past century or so. The U.S. military (e.g., Merton), multi-national corporations, Marxist revolutionaries (e.g., Freire), literacy activists (e.g., Kozol), and three waves of radical feminist scholar-activists, among others, have all used focus groups to help advance their concerns and causes. We will discuss these conceptual issues as well as related strategies for conducting rich focus group sessions.
"subtexts" that emerge from focus group discussions; and how interpret and deal with apparent "breakdowns" in group processes and understandings. These up close and personal examples of focus groups in action should help to illustrate their productive possibilities, their inherent dangers, and the many contingencies involved in focus group research.

3. H. L. Goodall

Workshop Title: Writing Quality Inquiry: Self, Stories, and Academic Life

    This workshop will provide a practical approach to crafting narratives designed for qualitative audiences and general readers. Participants will be asked to work on their own narratives as well as to provide helpful responses to the narratives of other participants. We will use my little paperback volume, Writing Quality Inquiry: Self, Stories, and Academic Life as a workbook. Participants are encouraged to read this book prior to the workshop. Copies may be obtained online from your favorite vendor or directly from the publisher (Left Coast Press). For those who cannot obtain a copy prior to the Congress, the publisher is offering a 20% discount to Congress participants onsite.

4. Anne Kuckartz

Workshop Title:Qualitative Data Analysis - Researcher Controlled and Computer assisted. A hands-on insight on MAXQDA

     After an introduction into the basic functions of MAXQDA, the workshop will give a detailed overview of the unique visual tools MAXQDA offers. You will have a chance to get first-hand experience with five complex, yet easy-to-use tools, focusing specifically on:

- visualizations as overviews of the current stage of your analysis;

- using visual tools to professionally present your research results.

The workshop will be hands-on, allowing participants to try out the tools of one of the world’s leading software tools for qualitative data analysis on their own research material. Participants should bring their own laptop. If you do not have access to a laptop or if there are questions about the workshop, please contact us in advance at maxworkshops@maxqda.com

5. Johnny Saldana

Workshop Title:Ethnodrama and Ethnotheatre: Arts-Based Research from Page to Stage

No prior theatre or performance experience is needed to participate in this workshop. Arts-based research, ethnodrama in particular, has been advocated by such key figures in qualitative inquiry as Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln as a powerful way for ethnography to recover yet interrogate the meanings of lived experiences. This workshop will introduce the fundamentals of dramatizing data and explore how qualitative research transfers "from page to stage." The session will provide a literature review of available ethnodramas with participants reading aloud informally from scripts (and, pending A/V availability, watching videos of ethnotheatrical performance). We will then explore how the participants' personal lived experiences can become "autoethnographic monologues." Participants will select a personal story as the basis for workshopping an informal retelling of that work to peers. The facilitator will guide each researcher-as-storyteller through the process of selecting necessary sensory details, choosing evocative language, and employing gesture and voice as instruments for dramatizing the data.

6.Jennifer C. Greene

Workshop Title: Mixed Methods Social Inquiry: Respectfully Engaging with Difference

    This workshop will present a view of mixed methods social inquiry as a generative conversation across different ways of knowing and different perspectives on what is important to know. The partners in this conversation can involve different philosophical paradigms (old and new), disciplines, methodological traditions, forms of data, value stances on the role of inquiry in society, and more. The rationale for this dialogic view of mixing methods is anchored in (1) a fundamental legitimization and acceptance of different approaches to social inquiry, with none intrinsically privileged, and (2) a values commitment to engaging with difference toward understanding and acceptance.
Workshop participants will be offered opportunities to probe and challenges the assumptions underlying this rationale for a dialogic vision of mixed methods inquiry, alongside opportunities to 'practice' mixed methods dialogues in the context of their own research interests and projects. In addition, the workshop will offer practical guidance for applying this dialogic vision of mixed methods inquiry to inquiry practice. This practical guidance will underscore the importance of clear explication of inquirer values stances and commitments and of integrative approaches to mixed methods analysis and interpretation.

7. Ken Gale and Jonathan Wyatt

Workshop Title:'Between the two': Using Deleuzian Thought in Collaborative Writing

'philosophy involves creating concepts that are always new'. (Deleuze and Guattari, 1994: 5)

    Within the excitement and expectation of the crisis of representation it is not just philosophy that engages in the continuing processes of creative conceptualisation; we wish to argue that in all aspects of human subject research such processes of engagement are both inevitable and necessary. Further we would argue that Richardson's inducement to use writing as a method of inquiry steers us headlong into exciting and productive conceptual and collaborative collusion with the ideas and approaches of Deleuze.
This provides a sketch of our performative autoethnographic method in which, we would argue, the vulnerabilities which emerge in moving the self from the purely personal into the politically charged terrain of the collaborative creates what Denzin has referred to as the 'sacred places' in which exciting new possibilities for human subject research open up.
The workshop is designed, therefore, to promote the use of a range of 'figures' found, conceptualised and illustrated in the work of Deleuze with a view to encouraging the workshop participants to employ these figures in practical engagement with and development of their own writing in collaborative contexts.

Pre-workshop reading
Will be distributed to provide some introduction and opportunity to:
* critically reflect upon relevant aspects of Deleuzian philosophy,
* initially consider how figures drawn from this philosophy might contribute to collaborative writing approaches
* read some examples of collaborative writing that has made use of these figures

Reference:
Deleuze G and Guattari F (1994) What is philosophy London Verso

8. Mitch Allen (Publisher, Left Coast Press, Inc.) & C. Deb Laughton (Publisher Guilford Publishing Company, Methodology & Statistics)

Workshop Title: Publishing a Qualitative Study

    This workshop is designed to give the researcher guidance on how to publish a qualitative study. Taught by two 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.

9. Sharlene Hesse-Biber

Workshop Title: Mixed and Emergent Methods Workshop

    This workshop will introduce qualitatively driven approaches to mixed methods and emergent methods data collection and analysis. We will introduce the concept of "emergent" and "mixed" methods. We will employ a case study approach that introduces research projects that sucessfully apply both types of methods in their data collection and analysis strategies. We discuss the strengths and limitations of in applying these methods tools.
The second half of the workshop will demonstrate how to integrate the use of computer-assisted software into a mixed methods and emergent research project. Computer assisted software can be an excellent way to manage large numbers of qualitative text, audio, video and graphic data as well as still images.
We will demonstrate how computer assisted software can carry out a grounded theory approac to the analysis of your data --from memoing to coding and retrieving your materials. It is also possible to conduct team work across geographical regions.
We will explore how to carry out a specific mixed methods analysis including transforming your qualitative data into quantitative categories ( quantitizing ). We will also explore some of the methodological issues involved in employing software in your analysis. We will use HyperResearch, an easy to learn user friendly computer-assisted software package that analyzes qualitative data ( text, audio, video and graphics) as well as HyperTranscribe, a computer-assisted transcribing software tool (you can download a free demo of each product at researchware.com ). We will address the following in our data analysis portion of the workshop:
What is your data analysis style?
Before the workshop meets we ask you bring a short reflexive memo on this question that you would like to share with the group (I will call on volunteers to share their memo).
We will provide a didactic exercise on finding your data analysis standpoint.
We will take up some advanced features of the HyperResearch and HyperTranscribe program starting with the Hypothesis Tester and advanced coding and memo features, including the network diagramming. We will talk about transcription as a form of data analysis. In addition, we will demonstrate how HR software is used to integrate a mixed methods analysis and emergent methods analysis.

10. Claudio Moreira & Marcelo Diversi

Workshop Title: Decolonizing Classrooms

    This workshop is designed around the central idea of co-constructing, with students in higher education, a dialogical collaboration in the processes of interpretation and production of decolonizing scholarship. We, facilitators and participants, will share our humble, and humbling, experiences with resisting colonizing rituals (e.g., use of titles and other power markers), exploring decolonizing possibilities of being (e.g., unconditional human rights), and with critiquing teaching while teaching. At the end, we hope participants will have new language, narratives, and ideas for advancing critical pedagogy from within our colonizing educational system.

Afternoon Session: 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM

11. Arthur Bochner & Carolyn Ellis

Workshop Title: Writing Autoethnography and Narrative in Qualitative Research

This workshop will focus on writing personal narratives and reflexively including researchers' selves and their interaction with participants in ethnographic projects. Topics covered will include: narrative truth; ethics; developing scenes, characters, conversation, and dramatic action; writing vulnerably and evocatively; truth and memory; writing as inquiry; interactive interviews and co-constructed narratives; evaluating and publishing autoethnography.

12.John W. Creswell

Workshop Title: Controversies and Issues in Mixed Methods

Mixed methods research is now 20 years old, and significant developments have taken place around the world and across many disciplines in the last five years. As interest grows, it is matched by an increase in questions and controversies. This is a healthy sign of the development of the field, but, unfortunately, the controversies are little discussed in the mixed methods scholarly literature. This workshop will address these controversies, and discuss topics such as how we need to resist the move toward consensus in mixed methods research, how certain forces may be misguiding mixed methods (e.g., funding sources), how the language of mixed methods may marginalize qualitative research and create dominant discourses, how the paradigm debate continues on underground, and how mixed methods designs misappropriate methods from other fields. The format will be a presentation augmented by discussion in which participants share experiences with these issues.

13. Norman Denzin & Michael D. Giardina

Workshop Title: Performance Ethnography

     This performance-based workshop will focus on the implications of decolonizing emancipatory discourses, and indigenous epistemologies for critical, interpretive inquiry. The workshop will foreground post 9/11/01 racialized performance narratives. Participants will form performance groups, Working back and forth between the personal. moments of epiphany, and the political, we will stage performances that enact visions of a free democratic society. Traditional forms of qualitative inquiry are put into relief as we disrupt the notion of "business as usual" in the current interpretive social science community.

14. Kathy Charmaz

Workshop Title: Grounded Theory Methodologies for Social Justice Projects

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 field notes, 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.

15.Yvonna S. Lincoln

Workshop Title: The new experimental writing forms

    Participants should come with some qualitative data, analyzed and organized in a systematic fashion, if at all possible, as writing will be a part of the workshop. Exploration of experimental forms--pleated, layered texts, poetry, fiction, "messy 0/00 texts, autoethnographic stories, and performance ethnographies--will be undertaken, in part via performance and dramatic reading, and participants will begin writing experiments utilizing their own data. Small research projects, dissertation data, or other ethnographic studies provide good fodder for writing exercises.

16. Pirkko Markula and Richard Pringle

Workshop Title: Foucault's Methodologies for Transformative Projects on the Body and Health

     In this workshop, we will explore how Foucault's theoretical tool kit can be used to examine the looks and uses of the body, body technologies, and ill and healthy bodies. For Foucault the body can be examined as a site through which individuals can use their power as a force for ethical conduct. In our workshop, we will begin our discussion by reviewing Foucault's major concepts (e.g., power relations, bio-politics, discourse, disciplinary techniques, technologies of the self) as they relate to doing qualitative research on the body. Our primary aim is to provide participants with a range of strategies for how to use Foucault's concepts to analyze texts, interviews, narratives and ethnographies concerning the body. We will provide specific examples and set a number of exercises to illustrate the possibilities for analyzing qualitative research data through a Foucauldian lens. These examples and exercises should help illustrate the possibilities, but also the boundaries, of using Foucault's tool kit to study the body within the constraints of neoliberal society.

17. Robin Jarrett and Angela Odums-Young

Workshop Title:“Swimming in Data.” Strategies for Interpreting, Writing Up and Evaluating Qualitative Research"

     This workshop explores the related processes of interpreting, writing up and evaluating qualitative data. Case study examples will be highlighted to provide an overview of techniques that can be used to discover meanings and examine social processes and social interactions in qualitative data. Issues discussed include: inductive approaches to data analysis, integrating multiple data sources, data reduction and data display techniques (e.g., visual, text), and using findings for theory development. Attention will be given to writing up qualitative data to reflect its rich descriptive nature as well as multiple voices and perspectives, targeting written products to scholarly/applied journals, and communicating research findings to different audiences. This workshop will also examine the relevant criterion for maintaining and assessing data quality.

18.Julianne Cheek

Workshop Title: The art and craft of developing qualitative research proposals: How to sell but not sell out

    Designing qualitative research studies involves many decisions at many points in the design process. The question to be answered/or the topic that is the focus of the study affects the choice of methods/techniques. The audience that is being written for, the time possible for the study, and the resources available affect the way those methods can be employed in the design.
This workshop will explore aspects of qualitative research design and the translation of those aspects into a written research proposal. It will have both a practical and discursive flavor. In so doing the workshop will surface the layers of decision making that are embedded in the research design/proposal development process. This includes methodological, ethical, and political considerations. Depending on who and what the study is for (e.g funders, university committees, government departments), at various points of the design process certain of these considerations may come to the fore, or conversely be relegated to the background. This can create tensions and dilemmas for the qualitative researcher in terms of competing agendas and/or pragmatic decisions to be made. In many ways it is as much a political process as it is a research one.
To get the most out of the workshop participants might bring with them a research proposal that they are working on or have worked on so that they can use that as a basis to explore the points covered. It is hoped that the workshop will be useful and interesting to anyone who is grappling with research design issues, or who teaches and advises students about these matters, or who may interact with funders and other bodies when writing proposals seeking support for qualitative research.

19.Christopher N. Poulos

Workshop Title: The Secrets of Accidental Ethnography

    Have you ever stumbled upon something-a sign, a clue, a wisp of a secret, a fragment of a memory, part of a story, a dream, an outburst-that you suspect is significant in some way, if only you could write your way through it? This workshop will focus on the practice of "Accidental Ethnography," in which the researcher becomes attuned to signs that erupt in everyday life, and organically crafts compelling narratives out of these "accidental" life moments. Participants will engage in writing exercises and offer feedback to colleagues in a supportive workshop environment. My book, Accidental Ethnography: An Inquiry into Family Secrecy will serve as a sourcebook. Participants are encouraged to read this book before the workshop.
Copies may be obtained directly from the publisher (Left Coast Press). For those who cannot obtain a copy prior to the Congress, the publisher is offering a discount to Congress participants onsite.

20.Janice Morse

Workshop Title: Mixed Methods: Principles and Procedures

In this workshop I will discuss advances in mixed-method design involving the interface of qualitative and quantitative methods. First I will distinguish between multiple-methods and mixed-methods, and why mixed-method designs may present threats to validity. We will then discuss the notion of theoretical drive, and QUAL-quan and QUAN-qual simultaneous designs. Finally, I will discuss sequential designs: QUAL-quan (single sample, data transformation) and QUAL-quan and QUAN-qual two sample designs.In this workshop I will discuss advances in mixed-method design involving the interface of qualitative and quantitative methods. First I will distinguish between multiple-methods and mixed-methods, and why mixed-method designs may present threats to validity. We will then discuss the notion of theoretical drive, and QUAL-quan and QUAN-qual simultaneous designs. Finally, I will discuss sequential designs: QUAL-quan (single sample, data transformation) and QUAL-quan and QUAN-qual two sample designs.

21. Jane F. Gilgun, Karen M. Staller, Roy Ruckdeschel

Workshop Title: Yes, you can: Strategies for Success in Academia

Doctoral students and junior faculty face special challenges and deep rewards when they do qualitative research. Yet they are at risk of being discounted by some mentors, colleagues, and administrators who do not understand or value qualitative inquiry, warn students they will not be marketable, measure faculty worth in terms of funding or publications in "high impact" or "top tier" journals, and by other often hidden criteria that tends to implicitly favor quantitative approaches. This workshop offers some practical suggestions for surviving and thriving as qualitative researchers in the academy.
We offer practical strategies that will help doctoral students and junior faculty (in various disciplines) to succeed, and we will reserve time to discuss case examples that participants bring to the workshop. Included in our discussions will be strategies for finding funding, for identifying receptive journals for publication, for educating colleagues, mentors and administrators on the importance of what we do, and for positioning oneself to excel during job search, mid-career reviews, and the tenure and promotions processes.
We will also stress the importance of networking with like-minded faculty, taking leadership roles in associations of qualitative social work researchers (and other disciplines and professions), and engaging in on-going education of others about how qualitative research contributes to social and economic justice in a wide range of settings.
The workshop will be conducted by two senior and one mid-career faculty member with long-term experiences in mentoring Ph.D. students and junior, and mid-career faculty in several different disciplines internationally and within the US. We have had experiences at RO1 research institutions as well as "teaching" universities. Our disciplines include social work, sociology, and law. We have mentored students in social work, anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology and history.