September 14, 2015

TQR Featured Article 

TQR Featured Article 

TQR Featured “How To” Article

Two Ethnographic Researchers Embark on a Narrative Journey

Randa Abbas
Arab Academic CollegeFollow
Deborah Court
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan

News and Notes

• Gary Shank’s all 11 Kindle books in the Spirit Of Qualitative Research series can be downloaded for free!
• A TAOS Institute Publication: 70Candles! Women Thriving in Their 8th Decade
• How “Calvin and Hobbes” help us understand the power of customer voice and creativity: Part I 
• Anthropologists Writing: The Fall 2015 Writers’ Workshop Essay Series
• Bridging the Gap between Ethnographic Practice and Business
• Critical Issues in Qualitative Health Research – One-day Special Interest Group (SIG) session on Wednesday, May 18th.
• TQR’s Patricia Leavy: The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research (available in paperback) 30% off with promo code “aspromp8”
• TQR’s Sharlene Hesse-Biber newest article “The problems and prospects in the teaching of mixed methods research“.
• Check out the latest Handbook on Multi-method and Mixed Methods Research Inquiry (Hesse-Biber/Johnson Oxford University Press).
• Should Qualitative Research Be Taken Seriously?
• ATLAS.ti Mac: Set of new video tutorials that show the latest features 

Calls for Conferences and Journal and Training Opportunities

• The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography (JUE) – Call for Papers (Deadline: July 31 and January 31)
• 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)
• The Society for Humanistic Anthropology 2015 Annual Ethnographic Poetry Competition – Call for Poems (Deadline: September 15, 2015)
• Symposium Ethnography and Artistic Research – Call for Participation (Deadline: September 20, 2015)
• Visiting International Fellowship in social research methods for visits in calendar year 2016 (Deadline: September 30, 2015)
• 37th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum – Call for Proposals (Deadline: Oct. 15, 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)
• ‘Post-qualitative’ methodologies (of difference) – Call for Stream Proposals (Deadline: November 1, 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)
• The Twelfth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2016) – Calls for Submissions (Deadline: December 1, 2015)
• Community Psychology in Global Perspective – Special Issue on Structural Violence – Call for Papers (Deadline: January 15, 2016)
• International Review of Qualitative Research – Call for Papers (Deadline: February 1, 2016)
• The 14th biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC) in Aarhus, Denmark – Call for Participation (Deadline: February 5th 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)
• 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)

Employment Opportunities

• Assistant Director of Institutional Planning and Research– Mount Saint Mary’s University
• Assistant Professor, Sociology– California State University, Fresno
• Part Time Research Analyst I– South Piedmont Community College
• Professional Research Assistant– University of Colorado Denver
• Research and Editorial Director– Political Research Associates
• Research Associate – Bioengineering– The University of Texas at Dallas
• Research Associate (A&P)– The University of Texas at Dallas
• Research Associate– Georgetown University
• Research Associate– The University of Texas at Dallas
• Research Support Assistant– University of Colorado Denver
• Researcher – WiSOR– University of Wisconsin – Madison
• Senior Research Associate– George Washington University
• Senior User Experience Researcher– Autodesk
• UX Research Analyst– Aquent