TQR Featured Article
Metacognition and Self-Scaffolding in MMORPGs: Case Study of an Adolescent Male Gamer
Ruba Monem
Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
TQR Featured Article
Inconvenient Women
Audra Skukauskaite
University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas, USA
TQR Featured “How To” Article
A Pattern-Generating Tool for Use in Semi-Structured Interviews
Greg Paine
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
News and Notes
- TQR Downloads Tops 11,000 in March 2015
- Quirkos Blog: “6 Meta-Categories for Qualitative Coding and Analysis”
- Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology (JQCJC)Publishes Newest Issue
- EPIB Blog: “Digital Living and Sensory Perception: Implications for Ethnography and Design”
- BBC Thinking Allowed Names “7 Things We Learned from the Ethnography Awards Shortlist”
- putting people first: “The woes of a corporate anthropologist [Novel]”
- Savage Minds: “What We’re Teaching This Semester: Ethnographic Theory”
- Savage Minds: “Genre-Bending, or the Love of Ethnographic Fiction”
- antropologi.info’s Free Open Access Anthropology Journals List
- AMA New Orleans: “Projective Techniques in Qualitative Market Research”
- Research Access: “Online Qualitative: Tried, Tested and True”
- Doyle Research: “More Blurred Lines, Still No Twerking: Merging Quant and Qual Studies for Superior Insights”
- GreenBook Blog: “The 2nd Edition of the GRIT Consumer Participation in Research (CPR) Report Is Available”
- Introducing “puntodevistasocial”
- GreenBook Blog: “Why I Don’t Miss Angry MR Client”
- QUIRK’S: “7 Women Who Are Shaping the Future of MR”
- QRCA Views: “Quallies, Take Your Mark, Get Set, GO!”
- VisionCritical: “5 Reasons to Take Your Qualitative Research Online”
- RW Connect: “Planning for Impact: How Insights Can Pack More of a Punch”
- PC World: “YouEye Targets Qualitative Data with New Analytics Platform
Calls for Conferences and Journal and Training Opportunities
- Journal of Video Ethnography – Call for Issue 3 Papers (Opening: March 15, 2015)
- Fourth International Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines (CEAD) 2016: “Ethnographic Imaginings: Place, Space, and Time” – Call for Papers (Deadline: TBA)
- 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)3
- The Popular Culture Studies Journal Special Issue: “Mediated Autoethnography: Connecting the Personal and the Popular” – Call for Papers (Deadline: May 15, 2015)
- Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity! (Waikiki, Hawaii): First Announcement (Event: May 18 & 19, 2015)
- Second ATLAS.ti User Conference: “Qualitative Data Analysis And Beyond” (Berlin, Germany) – Call for Papers (Deadline: May 20, 2015)
- Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management Special Issue: “Management, Accounting and Sustainable Transformation” – Call for Papers (Deadline: May 30, 2015)
- Discover Society Special Issue: “The Politics of Data (Science)” – Call for Papers (Deadline: June 15, 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)
- Qualitative Social Work Special Issue: “Narrative Approaches to the Study and Practice of Social Work” – Call for Papers (Deadline: September 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)
- Savage Minds: The Anthropologies Revival – Call for Ideas and Submissions (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)
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- 104252, Research Associate (A&P) (The University of Texas at Dallas)
- 9770 – Research Associate II (University of Maryland University College)
- Assistant Professor-School of Social Work (133-15) (Clark Atlanta University)
- Contracted Researcher – Ethnographer (Child Trends)
- Director of Research (University of Virginia)
- Market Research Analyst (Cambia Health Solutions)
- Qualitative Research Manager (Smith Arnold)
- Research Associate (Harvard University)
- Research Associate (Texas A&M University)
- Research Associate (Harvard University)
- Research Associate (Indiana University South Bend)
- Senior Manager, Market Research (Golinharris)
- Sr. Marketing Researcher (CTG)
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