August 31, 2015

TQR Featured Article 

Published: A Grounded Theory of Successful Publication for Midcareer Scholars
Walker Karraa and Mark McCaslin
University of Phoenix, Tempe, Arizona, USA

TQR Featured Article 

Demystifying the Mystery of Second Career Teachers’ Motivation to Teach
Yvonne Hunter-Johnson
The College of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas

TQR Featured Article

News and Notes

• Greenbook Blog: Getting Real About Online Data Quality Best Practices 
• QUIRKS: Analyzing the current representation of minorities in market research
• New qualitative research explores students’ MOOC concerns
• “Anthropology” in the Snowden Surveillance Archive
• What Things to Teach Designers in Post-Industrial Times?
• Ethnographic Field Data 2: When Not-Sharing is Caring
• TQR Editor-in-Chief Ron Chenail is pleased to announce the newest Editorial Board member Diana Riviera
• Quirkos 1.3 is released!
• Free Quirkos interactive workshop – 18th of September, 9:30am London time
• ATLAS.ti Mac Update 1.0.25 (build 102)

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)
• The 7th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2016 – Call for Papers (Deadline 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)
• Design Anthropology in Participatory Design – Call for Submissions (Deadline: September 4, 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)
• Special Issue: Global Futures and Epistemologies of the South New Challenges for Sociology – Call for Papers (Deadline: October 16, 2015)
• Special Issue: Community Responses to Criminalization in Communities of Color. Interventions to Address Racial Justice – Call for Papers (Deadline October 31, 2015)
• 50th Anniversary International Design Research Society Conference – Call for Participation (Deadline: November 9th, 2015)
• The 28th Annual Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Conference – Call for Papers: Presentation & Publication (Deadline: November 19th)
• 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

• Associate Director of Institutional Research– St. John’s University
• Planning and Research Analyst– San Mateo County Community College District
• Postdoctoral Research Associate– Northeastern University
• Qualitative Moderator, Retail/CPG Vertical– Nielsen
• Qualitative Research Manager– Insight Consulting Group
• Research Assistant– Foundation Center
• Research Associate– San Diego Community College District
• Research Associate– The University of Texas at Dallas
• Research Fellowship– Women’s World Banking
• Senior Research Program Coordinator– Johns Hopkins University
• Usability Researcher (UX Researcher)– IDC Technologies
• User Experience Research– Compunnel Software Group
• User Researcher– Primus Software
• UX Researcher– Stefanini IT Solutions