Qualitative

A group designed to discuss the issues and process of Action Research

Affordances can be defined as "the product of the interaction between the learner and the environment. Each interaction potentially alters the knowledge and the identity of the learner, as well as the micro-ecology of the environment.

this group is about art research and every thing about cultures in the world since 7000 years to now.

To discuss any issues relating to cross national, qualitative research, especially research involving depth interviews with service users to compare the effectiveness of policy structures in different countries.

A group exploring the possibilities, advantages and limitations of connecting critical realist ontology and biographical methods in social sciences.

A network for researchers involved in studies into a range of various memory related fields - personal memory, collective memory, cultural memory, etc.

Greys Anatomy Method

A group to share experiences about how we can hear the voice of the subaltern and decolonise Western dominated paradigms.

Exchanging research insights and resources into all areas intercultural- cross-cultural management, developing intercultural competence etc

We are an established group of researchers and academics interested in the language based approaches to research such as discourse analysis, narrative analysis and rhetorical analysis. We welcome input from others

This group aims to discuss and explore the research of mental health and psychic suffering in modern societies.

A group for all those interested in story-telling as research method. Narrative interviews focus on provoking story-telling in order to elicit a person’s own understanding of their own experiences and the world around them.

I hope to gather some scholars in this group who share an interest in the informal economies in developing countries. As a frim believer in cross-disciplinary research, I would like to hear about other views and approaches as well.

A discussion group for researchers and students undertaking research into Positive Psychology.

The central premise of our concept is to harness the insights of informed and motivated readers of our book into interactive discussions and learning opportunities in what we believe may be unprecedented ways. To do this, we will draw on the existing exercises in the book, and provide additional commentary, and connections.

This group is mostly about practical aspects of how to (and why to do) qualitative interviews, and less about how to analyze them.

What is the added value of qualitative research for policy makers? Let's discuss it...

Keywords: terminal illness, decision making, hospice/palliative care, bereavement, death and dying, funeral, cultural/social/familial issues, organ donation, suicide, euthanasia, policy, legislation, research methods/ethics etc. etc.

The group hereby presented aims to open the exchange and discussion on various strategies to explore and understand the connections between bodies and emotions in the processes of social structuration today. The expressiveness of the social subjects has always been a controversial issue for social sciences, because nobody can live-in-the-other. But “progress” of qualitative research strategies in social research in order to progressively and steadily incorporate the “expressive capture technologies” more and more enables to bridge the gap between what the researcher sees and the subject expresses. From the traditional recorder to the digital video camera, the attempt has been to expand the capabilities of “grasping” the social world and the voices of individuals who build it. From participant observation to the world-life representation that is made effective in the theater and dance, we see strategies for capturing information that has advanced over the expectable and indeterminable that is characteristic of the individuals in social interactions. Nurturing the experience of creativity as power to capture and transform the world, qualitative inquiry ruptures and builds renovated roads to see-the-world with others, and the others involved in the investigation. When creating, subjects inscribe in multiple surfaces the different ways in which they put forward their emotions and feelings. If creativity is used as the logic of inquiry what emerges, what “interests” the researcher to emerge and what actually does not emerge are mutually strained thus transforming into a knot through which what the researcher tried, did and what the subjects 'do' finally meet and to go through. To express is just making explicit what was already implied, is to de-wrap, de-compress. In expression in general what is tacit (what is assumed according to the mechanisms of social bearability and regulatory regimes of sensation) actually occurs, becomes present. Expressing oneself is also a vehicle to disarm the packages of class habitus, to take out what “wraps” things and put it in connection with what was “wraped”. At the same time the expressiveness of the subjects decompresses what is “tight”, and “concentrated” in the silence related to the differential and systematic appropriation of the uses of the word as the only way of speaking. From visual anthropology to visual sociology, from the ethnomusicology to popular culture studies, capturing what the subjects want to express “closer” than the verbal narrative alone, has been repeatedly aimed at. When you enter the “world” of expression in relation to qualitative inquiry of the social world, a series of questions or areas of theoretical and methodological work is widely opened. Consequently, this Group aims to become a swap space for all those who inquire into the social world eigher in, by and through the bodies and emotions.

Join this group to discuss the application, innovation and combination of QCA (cs/QCA, mv/QCA, fs/QCA), with other methods and techniques. See: COMPASSS as international resource site. Start discussions, pose questions, and post links!

For the study of storytelling, games and game-like structures across diverse bodies of media platforms.