Overview
The International Qualitative Research Network (formerly International Qualitative Research Toolkit) is happy to offer you the best of Qualitative Research methods and initiatives from across UBC, Canada and the world. Please contact us with any questions.
Upcoming webinars
IQRN Webinar Series: Anchoring your fieldwork in ATLAS.ti – From conceptualization, fieldwork and concurrent analysis
Date/Time
Thursday, August 22
3:00 AM – PDT
While no single aspect of your research can necessarily be isolated as being more pivotal than the next, the quality of your data gathered determines the quality of your analysis and subsequent outputs. The session will showcase how you can conceptualise, plan and execute your research with ATLAS.ti in mind from the start to the end of your project, including fieldwork, which is instrumental in collecting quality data. Using a multiple-embedded case study methodology, this webinar will show how research can be planned with ATLAS.ti. This webinar will explain how to anticipate using the programme to support and structure research, including field notes and memos, organising data sources, and grouping data according to the different cases to strengthen analysis insights within and across cases. Attending the webinar may inspire you to design your research through an ATLAS.ti-minded perspective or to better understand how ATLAS.ti can support your fieldwork even when you have already started your research. After the session you can recognise, target, and implement strategies to facilitate your research and collate information into a central data-management space using the tools, structures and functions of ATLAS.ti.
About the presenter
Dr Carlien Kahl is an independent research psychologist in Southern Africa. With a particular focus on indigenous and visual-participatory research methods, she teaches, facilitates, conducts and promotes quality qualitative research in and from Africa with in-depth knowledge and practical know-how. When it comes to applying research across contexts, particularly in scarce-resource settings, she is skilled in working with various methods with integrity and ethics. She has interest in strengthening and empowering researchers through mentoring and training.
IQRN Webinar Series: Change from the inside? Institutional ethnography as a research strategy
Date/Time
Thursday, September 26
10:00 AM – PDT
A Canadian-based research strategy called institutional ethnography (IE) has made inroads into qualitative research curricula across countries. Known for its radical approach to knowledge production and its social ontology, IE emerged from its founding scholars’ active participation in
women and gay liberation movements. In this webinar, I will explore the possibilities of IE for facilitating institutional change by focusing specifically on its investigation of front-line practices as sites of domination enacted according to organizations’ interests and priorities and resulting in displacement or silencing of the needs of service users. First, I will provide a brief overview of IE. Then, I will identify specific conceptual tools and analytical strategies, such as text-reader conversation, institutional mapping, and ruling relations, that institutional ethnographers use to investigate front-line work and its social and material organization. Lastly, by drawing on examples of institutional and political activist ethnographies, I will demonstrate how one can identify a concrete space for institutional change by avoiding speculative explanations of service agencies malfunctioning yet grounding that change in a detailed understanding of how these agencies operate.
About the presenter
Agnieszka Doll is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus. She is a qualitative researcher and institutional ethnographer. She is a co-editor of Political Activist Ethnography: Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle, recently published with Athabasca University Press and an author of several publications on institutional ethnography. She is currently working on a book for the University of Toronto Press, Institutional Ethnography Series, titled Unaccountable Legalities: Mental Health Law, Legal Aid Lawyers, and Institutional Entanglements.
IQRN Webinar Series: Learning with and from community – An introduction to community-based participatory research
Date/Time
Thursday, November 28
08:00 AM – PST
The objective of this webinar is to outline the conceptual foundations for undertaking community-based participatory research in response to community priorities and issues. Dr. Mayan will review the roots of community-based participatory research and partnership development. Learners will leave the webinar with a foundation in the principles of community-based participatory research.
About the presenter
Maria Mayan is a Professor, and Vice Dean, and an Associate Director of the Community-University Partnership in the School of Public Health. She is an engaged scholar who situates her work at the intersection of government, not-for-profit, structurally disadvantaged, and clinician communities. She grounds her work in the policy environment and focuses on how we can work together on complex health and social issues. Her work focuses on the causes of marginalization and how to mobilize against systems of inequity, using primarily qualitative and community-engaged research in rigorous and creative ways.