• New year, new activities

    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

  • Conference on Qualitative Research

    This spring, the QRG organizes its first conference, as part of its vision to build a community! We invite students, researchers, educators and practitioners to learn more about and deepen their understanding of qualitative research. It will be an opportunity to share expertise and to create new connections. The conference will be open to those with experience in qualitative research as well as to those with little or no experience.

    If you have grown enthousiastic and want to participate, please let us know by completing your registration through this form. If you have ideas or projects that you would like to share with the network on this day, you are encouraged to share them with us by sending an email to qrg@rug.nl. More details can be found below in the call for contributions below. We hope to see you there!

  • Atlas.ti licence

    An often-used program for analyzing qualitative materials is Atlas.ti, for which the university currently has a broad license. However, Atlas.ti is changing their license model, which means that the university has to re-evaluate to what extent it will invest in a license in the future (or whether they should look into alternatives). If you use atlas.ti yourself, or have opinions about this, please share them in this (very brief!) questionnaire! Knowing to what extent this software is used within our network would be a great help determining the next steps. Please let us know before January 31so that we can feed back the results to those in the position to make decisions about this.