Overview
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Upcoming webinars
IQRN Webinar Series: Data Collection Episode Profiles – Working Visually with Quotations in the ATLAS.ti Network View
Date/Time
May 22 Wednesday
07:00 AM – PDT
Sort and Sift, Think and Shift, developed by ResearchTalk, is an approach to qualitative analysis that emphasizes the importance of “power” quotations, text segments from a transcript or other document that are especially instructive or evocative. In the Sort and Sift approach, researchers often construct diagrams of these quotations, called “data collection episode profiles,” whereby each transcript is analyzed holistically before we assess patterns across them. The ATLAS.ti Network View provides a tool that is well suited for these episode profiles through the use of quotation titles or the quotations themselves. The position of quotations in the diagram reinforces the meaningful relationship among them—for example, a centrally located quotation suggests its shared relevance to surrounding quotations. Hyperlinks available in ATLAS.ti, including user-defined relationships, can further illustrate dynamic links between and among quotations. Researchers interested in coding can move from the episode profile to coding quotations based on the larger contextual meaning of clusters of text segments as well as the more nuanced meaning of individual segments. Memos and comments can also be incorporated in these diagrams. This session will use data from interviews with immigrants from the Archive of Immigrant Voices.
About the presenter: Paul Mihas is the Assistant Director of Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a senior consultant with ResearchTalk Inc. He has taught qualitative methods at the Global School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM) at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland for 10 years and has also taught short courses at the ICPR Summer Program and the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
IQRN Webinar Series: Building Rigor to Enhance Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research
Date/Time
June 11 Tuesday
10:00 AM – PDT
Rigor is an important part of every qualitative study. In this webinar, Karin Olson will highlight key differences in rigor, as it is understood within quantitative and qualitative research, and talk about five strategies qualitative researchers can use to build rigor into their studies. This approach helps researchers identify and correct potential threats to reliability and validity while they are conducting their study, and thus provide more robust study conclusions.
About the presenter
Karin Olson is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia Okanagan and Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta. Her research program has two dimensions: clinical research and qualitative methods development. The clinical research is focused on cancer-related fatigue. Topics of investigation have included fatigue as a stress response, similarities and differences of fatigue in various ill and non-ill populations, the social construction of symptom experience, relationships among fatigue and other symptoms, and the prevention and early detection of fatigue. Her work on methods development research has examined how local research-related beliefs and values are reflected in research practices such as ethics review procedures and how these variations influence research outcomes. Her other methods development research interests include external validity in qualitative research, and the use of structural equation modelling to study symptom clusters.