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TQR Names New Assistant Editors

The Qualitative Report Editor-in-Chief Ron Chenail announced the appointment of five new assistant editors to the journal: Jane Duncan, Bruce Lilyea, Sharon McIntyre, and Jennifer R. Wolgemuth.

Dr. Hannah Covert was first exposed to qualitative research as an undergraduate student. She went on to complete both her MA thesis and PhD dissertation using qualitative methods of inquiry. Her MA was an ethnographic study of elderly Mexican women, while her dissertation was a constructivist study of undergraduate students’ perceptions of developing intercultural competence during a semester abroad in Chile. Hannah has worked in higher education administration for over 15 years. She specializes in resource management, particularly as related to extramural research, and international education. She has published several peer-reviewed publications and is a manuscript reviewer for a variety of journals. Currently, Hannah is the Associate Director of the Center for Gulf Coast Environmental Health Research at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University. Hannah received her PhD in Higher Education Administration from the University of Florida (UF) where she received in-depth training in qualitative theory, methods, and analysis. She has a MA in Latin American Studies with a specialization in anthropology from UF and a BA in Spanish from Middlebury College. Hannah has been a reviewer for TQR for four years, and looks forward to continuing to contribute to the qualitative research community as a TQR Assistant Editor!

Dr. Jane Duncan is the Executive Director of Assessment and Accreditation and the SACSCOC Accreditation Liaison at Nova Southeastern University, where she directs and oversees various university-wide academic and accreditation-related processes, including those for SACSCOC and professional/specialized accrediting bodies. Additionally, she directs the university’s academic program review process and oversees the assessment of student learning outcomes for all degree programs. Dr. Duncan has presented nationally and internationally and is published in the anthology Theatre and Dance in Eastern Europe: The Changing Scene (Scarecrow Press, 2008). Previous positions in higher education include Assistant Professor (Theatre) and Director of Faculty Engagement in the Office of Undergraduate Student Success.

Dr. Bruce Lilyea has a wide range of experience in leadership, process improvement, and operations management and has multiple supply chain certifications. Dr. Lilyea has an extensive background in entrepreneurial, governmental and corporate business and is currently employed in a corporate training management role for a Fortune 100 company. In addition to his Ph.D. in Conflict Resolution with a concentration in organizational conflict, Dr. Lilyea earned a B.S. in Accounting, an MBA with additional coursework in international economics, and a Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research. As an adjunct professor at Southeastern University since 2008, he has taught and developed courses in leadership, operations management, strategic management, social responsibility, and economics. His research interests include value optimization, environmental management, social responsibility for organizations and individuals, constructive conflict, and building community. Dr. Lilyea serves on multiple journal editorial review boards, regularly writes and speaks in the academic space, and is co-editing a book on autoethnography. He lives in Lakeland, Florida with his wife and two amazing daughters.

Dr. Sharon McIntyre resides in the South Florida area. She earned her Master’s degree in Public Administration and her Doctoral degree in Conflict Resolution from Nova Southeastern University. Dr. McIntyre’s research interests include ethnic conflict and communication issues with public sector (government, police, city managers etc.), race and conflict, African American identity, African American diaspora, structural violence, interpersonal conflict, international conflict analysis and resolution, comparative politics, comparing political structures and institutions, and world history. Her focus is on experiential and applied learning of conflict resolution theories, models and practices. Research is comprised of several qualitative research methods, and practice include various levels of peace building programs, social change, and human rights. Dr. McIntyre is also a member of the American Society for Public Administration (South Florida Chapter). American Historical Association, Association for Conflict Resolution, and the American Political Science Association.

Dr. Jennifer R. Wolgemuth is an Assistant Professor in Measurement and Research and Chair of the Qualitative Advisory Group at the University of South Florida. Drawing on critical, poststructural, and new materialist perspectives, her research focuses on the ethics and politics of social science research, asking critical questions about the intended and unintended consequences of research conduct and reporting. Jennifer’s scholarship is published in The Qualitative Report, Qualitative Inquiry, Qualitative Research, Qualitative Health Research, and Cultural Studies –> Critical Methodologies (forthcoming). She an Editorial Board member of Education Policy Analysis Archives and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for prominent methodological journals such as Qualitative Research, Qualitative Psychology, and Review of Educational Research. She holds or has held leadership positions in the American Education Research Association’s Narrative Inquiry SIG (Secretary/Treasurer), Qualitative Research SIG (Secretary, Mentoring Committee Chair, Book Award Chair), and Division D — Measurement & Research Methodology (Mentoring Committee Chair). She is honored to serve on the TQR Editorial Board whose publication ethic to foster an inclusive and collaborative community to cultivate authors, editors, and reviewers of qualitative scholarship aligns well with her own ethics of teaching, learning, and doing qualitative research.

(Posted November 2, 2016)

TQR Monthly Usage for August 2016
Last month, The Qualitative Report had 25054 full-text downloads and 17 new submissions were posted.
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(Posted September 19, 2016)

TQR Monthly Usage for July 2016
Last month, The Qualitative Report had 24628 full-text downloads and 12 new submissions were posted.
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(Posted August 22, 2016)

TQR Monthly Usage for June 2016
Last month, The Qualitative Report had 23054 full-text downloads and 12 new submissions were posted.
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(Posted July 21, 2016)

TQR Monthly Usage for May 2016
Last month, The Qualitative Report had 28166 full-text downloads and 21 new submissions were posted.
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(Posted June 27, 2016)

TQR Monthly Usage for April 2016
Last month, The Qualitative Report had 28873 full-text downloads and 12 new submissions were posted.
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(Posted May 24, 2016)

TQR Monthly Usage for March 2016.
Last month, The Qualitative Report had 29375 full-text downloads and 12 new submissions were posted.
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(Posted April 18, 2016)

TQR Monthly Usage for February 2016.

The Qualitative Report
Last month, The Qualitative Report had 22067 full-text downloads and 15 new submissions were posted.
The most popular papers were:

(Posted March 28, 2016)

TQR Monthly Usage for January 2016.
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(Posted February 17, 2016)

Newest TQR Interns Announced

Ron Chenail, TQR Editor-in-Chief, is proud to announce the three latest members of TQR’s Apprenticeship Program – Dragana Ilic, Jim Lane, and Andrea Lypka. As apprentices, these three interns will become part of the TQR community, learn the TQR editorial review process, and conduct reviews as part of the TQR manuscript development process. Based upon the quality of their service, apprentices may be invited to join the TQR Editorial Board after completing their one-year internship.

The following are the interns’ bios:

Dragana Ilic is a Ph.D. Candidate in Family Therapy at Nova Southeastern University. She worked last four years as an Institutional Review Board Graduate Assistant for Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nova Southeastern University. She reviewed and edited all qualitative and quantitative dissertation research proposals helping doctoral students pass the IRB. As a master and doctoral student, Dragana have completed several research studies using qualitative and quantitative research methods and presented her studies at the national and international conferences. She earned her Master of Science degree in Applied Clinical Psychology from Lynn University. Her previous research studies focused on: attachment, separation, and alcohol abuse in college students; gender differences in judgment of opposite-sex attractiveness and desirability for dating; how solution focused brief therapist use circularity to work with couples and families; exploring the needs of master’s family therapy students in clinical supervision; loneliness in doctoral students; and burnout and well-being among mental health professionals. Currently, Dragana is working on completing her dissertation study that is focused on therapeutic alliance in narrative therapy and de-centered and influential position of the therapist. Dragana is also a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist Intern and AAMFT Supervisor Candidate. As a therapist intern she worked at the Broward Outreach Center, at the Brief Therapy Institute, at the North Side Elementary School, and the Center for Group Counseling providing therapy to individuals, couples, families, and groups.

Dr. Jim Lane has spent nearly 40 years as an educator as a high school English teacher, district curriculum supervisor, assistant principal, and middle school principal. He holds a B.A. in English and Mass Communications Education, an M.A. in English, and M.Ed. and Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. Now retired from the principalship, he teaches courses for the University of Phoenix (UOPx) and Saint Leo University. For UOPx he works with doctoral students as both committee member and dissertation chair. He also serves UOPx as a research fellow in the Center for Professional Responsibility in Education. His dissertation was an autoethnographic narrative analysis in which he examined significant ethical dilemmas he encountered as a middle school principal. His research interests include ethical frameworks, ethical dilemmas, educator code of ethics, autoethnography, narrative analysis, constructivism, school leadership, and middle school curriculum. His summary of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 will be published in the Encyclopedia of Middle Grades Education, 2nd edition, in April 2016. Recent presentations at academic conferences include The Qualitative Report Annual Conference, 2015 and 2016, and the Doing Autoethnography Conference, Angelo State University, February 2015.

Andrea Lypka is a PhD Candidate in the Second Language Acquisition and Instructional Technology (SLA/IT) program at the University of South Florida (USF). Her research interests include photovoice and digital storytelling, discourse analysis, low educated second language and literacy acquisition learner, motivation, learner identity and agency.

Anyone interested in becoming a TQR intern, should send an email by February 29, 2016 to Ron Chenail at ron@nova.edu explaining why they would want to apprentice with the journal along with an attached CV or resume.

(Posted February 10th, 2016)

Newest TQR Editorial Board Members Announced

Ron Chenail, The Qualitative Report (TQR) Editor-in-Chief, is proud to announce the four latest members of TQR’s Editorial Board – Uttam Gaulee, Rikki Mangrum, Manon Maitland Schladen, and sam smiley. As part of the TQR Editorial Board, these members will learn the TQR editorial review process, conduct reviews as part of the TQR manuscript development process, and mentor authors. Based upon the quality of their service, Editorial Board members may be invited to become TQR editors after completing their three-year term.

The following are the board members’ bios:

Uttam Gaulee is a doctoral candidate in Higher Education Administration and Entrepreneurship at the University of Florida. His doctoral research examines global engagement pathways among American and international students, focusing on how institutions can increase global competency skills for all students. His broader professional goals include fostering global citizenship, promoting transnational perspectives, and enhancing cross-cultural understanding through higher education. In his position as a research fellow in the department, he currently serves as Program Director at Community College Futures Assembly, an independent policy forum at University of Florida’s Institute of Higher Education. Like all other talented students in high school in western Nepal, Uttam had the dream to go to college in Kathmandu at the end of it. However, as the eldest son among seven other siblings, his father wanted him to support his siblings through their high school. In fact, father had also taken a larger, social issue into consideration: Uttam had to both study and eventually teach in a local college that wanted to keep the community’s brightest students in the interest of the future generation. Luckily, Uttam persevered and completed his college alongside family responsibilities, and he eventually finished his master’s degree in education from Kathmandu, before he went on to win the Fulbright Scholarship and came to the US to further pursue graduate education.

Rikki Mangrum has been an academic librarian and health services researcher for more than twenty years. She concentrates on topics related to quality and performance measurement, patient reported outcomes, and patient and family engagement in care. Rikki has extensive experience in designing and conducting qualitative studies, primarily guided by grounded theory, using data gathered through interviews, focus groups, surveys, cognitive testing, site visits and observations, documentation review, and deliberative methods. She also explores the utility of less widely used data collection or analytic techniques, such as using graphical sketches during the analytic phase or using role-play activities as part of data collection. She has conducted some research using novel resources such as the content of social media. Rikki also has vast experience directing environmental scans, systematic literature reviews, and meta-analyses. She has designed and developed data management and analytic software solutions on a variety of application platforms, and has led both large- and small-scale qualitative analyses using NVivo. She has conducted studies for clients ranging from the Colorado Health Foundation, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Blue Cross/Blue Shield Foundation, PROMIS ™, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Moore Foundation, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid.

Manon Maitland Schladen serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC. She holds concurrent appointments as a senior research associate at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital and as a health science specialist at the Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Manon’s academic background is in Computer Science, Rehabilitation Engineering, Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. She received her doctorate from Nova Southeastern University in Computing Technology in Education and received the Robert M. Gagné Award for Graduate Student Research in Instructional Design from the Association for Educational Communications and Technology for her dissertation study developing an instructional design theory for virtual patients (online interactive patient cases). Manon’s research interests focus on the use of computing technologies (particularly online and mobile) to enhance learning and performance in the health professions and to improve understanding, health self-management, and outcomes for persons with chronic health conditions. She is a member of the inaugural cohort of the Georgetown University Teaching Academy, a community of practice dedicated to improving teaching and learning in the health professions. In addition to her work at TQR, Manon also reviews for the journals Medical Education, Medical Teacher, Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, and the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development. The up-to-date list of Manon’s publications and presentations can be found at My NCBI, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/manon.schladen.1/bibliography/47366074/public/?sort=date&direction=descending.

sam smiley is a media and performance artist and educator. She is a member of Astrodime Transit Authority (http://facebook.com/astrodime), a media arts collective working with issues of art, performance, and technoscience. She holds an M.F.A. in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is doing her doctoral studies at Leiden University’s Dual Ph.D. Center. Her dissertation work explores invasive species, weeds and plant subjectivity and uses STS (science, technology and society), cultural studies, history of science and arts based research. She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Anyone interested in becoming a TQR Editorial Board member, should send an email by February 29, 2016 to Ron Chenail at ron@nova.edu explaining why they would want to be a board member with the journal along with an attached CV or resume.

(Posted February 10th, 2016)

TQR Monthly Usage for December 2015

In December 2015, The Qualitative Report had 16985 full-text downloads and 12 new submissions posted.
The most popular papers were:

(Posted February 8th, 2016)

TQR Editors and Reviewers of the Year

Editors of the Year
Stephanie Fleming, Nova Southeastern University
Cynthia Langtiw, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
Annette Willgens, DaemenCollege

Reviewers of the Year
Sheryl Chatfield, Kent State University
Dustin De Felice, Michigan State University
Michael Hollingsworth, Old Dominion University
Bruce Lilyea, Nova Southeastern University

(Posted January 25, 2016)