Dear Qualitative Research Group,
We hope you had a wonderful and restful summer! Excited about the new year, we wanted to share some updates.
Data working sessions
This year, we want to launch a new initiative, which will run parallel to our monthly content-meetings. The idea is to have data working sessions every month, where people are invited to bring their qualitative data to work on some problem or question they have. The participants will think together on different approaches to navigate the issue in this open and collaborative space.
These data working sessions will be helpful for researchers and students working with qualitative data, and also supervisors are encouraged to send their students over for additional support. The room and time will be announced soon. In order to take part in the data sessions you will need to sign up 3 days in advance, to give presenters time to prepare materials for the hands-on coding. Each session will focus on a data excerpt by one “presenter”. Please let us know if you have some data that you would like to bring to one of the sessions.
Inviting ideas and contributions
We are working on the schedule for this year and interesting events are being lined up. However, we also want to ask you to contribute your ideas, interests and intentions! Whether you are a regular, new to the mailinglist or been too busy to attend, we’d love to hear from you.
What kind of sessions are you looking forward to? Do you want to share your research or have a particular topic to put up for discussion? Maybe you have a burning quali-related question? Tell us, so that together we can make the program even nicer.
Co-chairs
After a pleasant and educational time at the Dutch Research Council (NWO), I (Rinske) am excited to turn my attention back to the QRG. I will act as co-chair this year, together with Ole.
Information about the upcoming content-meetings is in the works and will follow soon. We are looking forward to hearing from you, and seeing you this year during our sessions!
Kind regards,
Ole, Rinske and the QRG-team
