TQR Featured Article
Occupational Health Stress in the Service Sector
Fozia Malik
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Shaan Shahabuddin
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
TQR Featured Article
Assessing a Coalition for Outreach and Enrollment in Minnesota’s Health Insurance Exchange
Kim Nichols Dauner
University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota, USA
TQR Book Review
A “How-To” Introduction on Pursuing Arts-Based Fiction Research and Writing as a Methodology: A Review of Fiction as Research Practice: Short Stories, Novellas, and Novels
Aniuska M. Luna
Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
News and Notes
- GreenBook Blog: “Are Business Intelligence and Analytics Outshining Insights?”
- QUIRK’S: “Why Big Data Needs Big Understanding”
- Forbes: “Using Data as a Creative Force”
- TQR Board Member and Author Janet Richards Selected as New Reviewer for Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal
- QUIRK’S: “Qualitative Approach Aims To Have Millennials Dig Deep”
- GreenBook Blog: “Recognition for Movers and Shakers in Market Research Data Visualization”
- GreenBook Blog: “Of Innovation and Snake Oil”
- GreenBook Blog: “Growth Hacking 101”
- The Sociological Imagination: “Patricia Leavy’s ‘Social Fiction: Writing Social Science Research as Fiction'”
- EPIC: “Beyond the Toolbox: What Ethnographic Thinking Can Offer in a Shifting Marketplace”
- The Daily Princetonian: “New Ethnography Certificate Program Proposed”
- EBSCO Discovery Pulse: “Deirdre Costello’s ‘Ethnography in Libraries: Definitely a Thing'”
- putting people first: “From Design Thinking to Ethnographic Thinking”
- Ethnography at Xerox
- HAU Introduces Its Open Access Book Series
- Quirkos Announce First Update
Calls for Conferences and Journal and Training Opportunities
- Qualitative Research in Communication International Conference (Bucharest, Romania) – Call for Papers (Deadline: April 7, 2015)
- Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA): 2015 SHA Fiction Competition – Call for Submissions (Deadline: May 15, 2015)
- Journal of Video Ethnography – Call for Issue 3 Papers (Opening: March 15, 2015)
- The 2015 Annual Conference of the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology: “Social Justice from the Local to the Global: Sociology on the Move” (Montgomery, Alabama, USA) – Call for Papers (Deadline: May 1, 2015)
- Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity! (Waikiki, Hawaii): First Announcement (Event: May 18 & 19, 2015)
- 2015 QRCA Global Outreach Scholarships – Call for Applicants(Deadline: May 29, 2015)
- 21st Qualitative Health Research Conference (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) – Call for Abstracts (Deadline: June 23, 2015)
- LEARNing Landscapes Special Issue: “Professional Development in Education: Pushing the Boundaries of Possibility” – Call for Submissions (Deadline: August 1, 2015)
- The Society for Humanistic Anthropology 2015 Annual Ethnographic Poetry Competition – Call for Poems (Deadline: September 15, 2015)
- Sport Management Review Special Issue: “Contemporary Qualitative Research Methods in Sport Management” – Call for Papers (Deadline: February 1, 2016
- LEARNing Landscapes Special Issue: “Artful Inquiry: Transforming Understanding Through Creative Engagement” – Call for Submissions (Deadline: February 1, 2016)
- Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development – Call for Proposals (Deadline: Open)
- Urban Education Studies Series – Call for Book Proposals(Deadline: Open)
- Qualitative Inquiry 20th Anniversary – Call for Papers (Deadline: TBD)
- Taos Institute World Share Books – Call for Submissions (Deadline: Open)
Employment Opportunities
- Associate Director Research, Center for Bioethics (Geisinger Health System)
- Director of Research (Nonprofit, San Francisco, CA)
- Post Doc (North Dakota State University)
- Product Research Analyst (Quantcast)
- Project Director, Consumer Market Research (Scientific Search)
- Research Coordinator II – Pediatrics (Baylor College of Medicine)
- Researcher Support Services, Department Head (University of Colorado Denver)
- Senior Analyst, Corporate Market Research Qualitative — Latin America (Emerson)
- Senior Qualitative UX Researcher (Answerlab)
- User Researcher (TEKsystems)
- User Researcher (Talent Hunt Group)
- User Researcher (Indiegogo)