-226x152.jpg)
Events
The State of Qualitative Research - Symposium
- Venue: The Fredrick Douglas Centre
- Start: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 10:00:00 GMT
- End: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 16:00:00 GMT
The Newcastle University Qualitative Special Interest Group (QualSIG) is inviting staff and postgraduate students with an interest in qualitative research to our inaugural symposium. The core aim of the QualSIG is to nurture and promote qualitative research at Newcastle University. Our symposium will offer a supportive and positive environment for qualitative researchers to present their work and network with their peers while also promoting the considerable qualitative expertise available at Newcastle University.
The symposium theme is The State of Qualitative Research.
As qualitative researchers our work is typically anchored on answering “why” questions and on unpicking the subtleties of subjective experience of phenomena, social interaction, power dynamics, and inequalities. Our data is often nuanced and challenging to analyse, mirroring the complexity of lived experience. Our strength lies in our ability to manage this complexity and produce meaningful, and impactful outputs. Despite this strength, qualitative approaches can still struggle for recognition both within and outside academic research.
Qualitative research is a term that covers a diverse number of methods, methodologies, and processes, aimed at capturing pieces of subjective experience. However, this diversity and the potential for innovation can often be limited by time and funding available to carry out high quality qualitative work and overshadowed by a tendency for both research teams and funders to lean towards more established and simplified approaches.
We hope that this symposium will provide an opportunity for qualitative researchers across Newcastle University to consider where qualitative research is currently, and what the future might hold.
***IF YOU HAVE A POSTER FROM A RECENT CONFERENCE (LAST 12 MONTHS) AND WOULD LIKE TO DISPLAY IT AT THE SYMPOSIUM PLEASE LET US KNOW***
“It would be nice if all of the data which sociologists require could be enumerated because then we could run them through IBM machines and draw charts as the economists do. However, not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted…”
William Bruce Cameron (1963) Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking
Registration (free): https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=yRJQnBa2wkSpF2aBT74-h0SI29r2oGtGu-8hBpko-qxUMUlLVzRXMDZRUkUwN1laQkYzSTA1Q0xTVC4u
Abstract submission: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=yRJQnBa2wkSpF2aBT74-h0SI29r2oGtGu-8hBpko-qxUMlNJS1gwVzBXVldNN1RBNUlCS0JNUVhONC4u
