August 10, 2015

TQR Featured Article 

Perceived Father Roles of Married African American Men: A Phenomenological Study
Felicia Murray and Shann Hwa Hwang
Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas, USA

 TQR Featured Article 

Investigating Food Development in an Area of Norway: An Explorative Study Using a Grounded Theory Approach
Kai Victor Hansen
University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

TQR Featured “Teaching and Learning” Article

News and Notes

• Greenbook Blog: Improving Insight Skills, Status, and Impact
• Top Tips for Conducting Qualitative Research with Children And Young People
• 4 Ways to Integrate Qual into Product Tests
• Greenbook Blog: Cool Hand Deprivation: Footnotes on Media, Marketing and People
• Discover the first wearable technology for the market research industry. Now, 20|20’s QualBoard integrates directly with Apple Watch
• Quirkos: Participatory Qualitative Analysis
• Simplifying Product Offerings with Qual and Quant
• Quant+qual MR methods help increase the use of organic pesticides
• Monrovia dug deep with gardeners to find out how to establish a bond with them
• The challenges of data collection in Latin America
• The Goldilocks approach to innovation research
• Ethnography Alone Cannot Generate Transformative Insights
• Julia’s War Story: For Want Of A Shoe
• Survey Underway on the Use of Technology Use in Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research
• The Price of Speaking Up Against Inequality

Calls for Conferences and Journal and Training Opportunities

• Fourth International Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines (CEAD) 2016: “Ethnographic Imaginings: Place, Space, and Time” – Call for Papers (Deadline: TBA)
• She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation – First Call for Papers (Deadline: Open)
• The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography (JUE) – Call for Papers (Deadline: July 31 and January 31)
• 2015 Oral History Association Annual Conference (Tamps, Florida, USA): “Stories of Social Change and Social Justice” – Call for Posters (Deadline: August 15, 2015)
• Asian/Americans and Education: A Critical Analysis of the “Model Minority” as Perpetrators and Victims of Crime – Call for Book Chapters (August 15, 2015)
• The 7th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2016 – Call for Papers (DeadlineL August 27, 2015)
• Qualitative Social Work Special Issue: “Narrative Approaches to the Study and Practice of Social Work” – Call for Papers (Deadline: September 1, 2015)
• Caribbean Alliance of National Psychological Associations CRCP2016 – 3rd Caribbean Regional Conference of Psychology (Nassau, Bahamas): “Promoting Caribbean Health with Multiculuralism and Multilingualism: Challenges and Opportunities” – Call for Abstracts (Deadline: September 15, 2015)
• Symposium Ethnography and Artistic Research – Call for Participation (Deadline: September 20, 2015)
• The Society for Humanistic Anthropology 2015 Annual Ethnographic Poetry Competition – Call for Poems (Deadline: September 15, 2015)
• Visiting International Fellowship in social research methods for visits in calendar year 2016 (Deadline: September 30, 2015)
• 50th Anniversary International Design Research Society Conference – Call for Participation (Deadline: November 9th, 2015)
• International Review of Qualitative Research – Call for Papers (Deadline: February 1, 2016)
• Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal – Call for Submissions and Reviewers (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

• User Researcher – Primus Software
• UX Researcher – Collabera
• Senior UX Researcher – Precision Systems
• Post Doctoral Associate, Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) – Carnegie Mellon University
• Research Associate – IXL Learning
• Senior Research Associate – Makro Scientific
• Qualitative Research Manager – Hanover Research
• Research Associate-Qualitative – Lieberman Research Worldwide
• Researcher – Panorama Education
• Research Analyst – University of San Diego
• Assistant Research Analyst – College of the Canyons
• Research Assistant IV Non-Lab – Harvard University
• Research Associate – Computer Science – The University of Texas at Dallas
• Research Associate II – Scripps College