scholarly journals Guest editors' notes: Special issue on qualitative research support

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Lynda Kellam ◽  
Celia Emmelhainz
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Data Services ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Library Websites

Welcome to the second issue of Volume 43 of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ 43:2, 2019). Four papers are presented in this issue on qualitative research support. This special issue arises from conversations in the Qualitative Social Science and Humanities Data Interest Group (QSSHDIG) at IASSIST about how best to support qualitative researchers. This group was founded in 2016 to explore the challenges and opportunities facing data professionals in the social sciences and humanities, and has focused on using, reusing, sharing, and archiving of qualitative, textual, and other non-numeric data. In ‘Annotation for transparent inquiry (ATI),’ Sebastian Karcher and Nic Weber present their work on a new approach to transparency in qualitative research by the same name, which they have been exploring at the Qualitative Data Repository at the University of Syracuse, New York. As one solution to the problem of ‘showing one’s work’ in qualitative research, ATI allows researchers to link final reports back to the underlying qualitative and textual data used to support a claim. Using the example of Hypothes.is, they discuss the positives and negatives of ATI, particularly the amount of time required to annotate a qualitative article effectively and technical limitations in widespread web display. The next article highlights how archived materials can be re-used by qualitative researchers and used to build their arguments. In ‘Research driven approaches to archival discovery,’ Diana Marsh examines what qualitative researchers need from the collections at the National Anthropological Archives in the United States, in order to improve archival discovery for those not as accustomed to working in the archives. In ‘Bringing method to the madness,’ Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh, Leader of the Research Data Services Team at the Georgia State University Library, outlines a project created to bridge the gap between training researchers to use qualitative data software and training them in qualitative methods. Her answer has been a collaborative workshop with a sociology professor who provides a methodological framework while she applies those principles to a project in NVivo. These successful workshops have helped to encourage researchers to consider qualitative methods while at the same time promoting the use of CAQDAS software. Jonathan Cain, Liz Cooper, Sarah DeMott, and Alesia Montgomery in their article ‘Where QDA is hiding?’ draw on a study originally conducted for QSSHDIG to create a list of qualitative data services in libraries. When they realized that finding these services was quite difficult, they expanded the study to examine the discoverability of library sites supporting QDA. This study of 95 academic library websites provides insight into the issues of finding and accessing library websites that support the full range of qualitative research needs. They also outline the key characteristics of websites that provide more accessible access to qualitative data services. We thank our authors for participating in this special issue and providing their insights on qualitative data and research. If you are interested in issues related to qualitative research, then please join the Qualitative Social Sciences and Humanities Data Interest Group. Starting with IASSIST 2019 in Australia, our interest group has a new leadership team with two of our authors, Sebastian Karcher and Alesia Montgomery, taking over as co-conveners. We are certain that they would love to hear your ideas for the group, and we look forward to working with the qualitative data community more in the future.  Lynda Kellam, Cornell Institute for Social & Economic Research Celia Emmelhainz, University of California, Berkeley

Grassroots Archive Collection at CDRCSL

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780042110146
Author(s):  
Yunxiang Yan ◽  
Tian Li ◽  
Yanjie Huang
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Special Collection ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
Written Materials

This article aims to introduce the value of grassroots archives at the Center for Data and Research on Contemporary Social Life (CDRCSL) at Fudan University for qualitative research in social sciences and humanities. This special collection includes written materials on various aspects of social life that are left outside the official archive system. We first introduce the types and features of the grassroots archives collection and then briefly review the values of these primary sources, illustrated by two examples. We conclude with brief discussion on some case studies based on the primary data from the CDRCSL collection and our reflection on the tension between the protection of subject privacy and preservation of historical truth.

scholarly journals How to fill the information gap: Open Access for the social sciences and humanities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Ernst ◽  
Judith Schulte
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
European Research ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Information Gap ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
The Social

Researchers not actively seeking information about Open Access and scholars who are not actively informed by their institutions might be concerned about publishing Open Access due to lack of information. Questions such as “Why is Open Access necessary and what do I gain?”, “What happens to my rights as an author?”, and “Why was I not told about this discount before I paid the full APC from my project fund?” might come up. This workshop is directed at representatives of research organizations and universities (e.g. Open Access offices, project coordinators, and interested researchers) on the topic of helping researchers finding answers to these questions and advocating for Open Access in the humanities and social sciences. The workshop seeks to discuss aspects that have been identified by participants priorly as most pressing to discuss. We therefore invite all registered participants to fill in a short survey by 12 October 2020. For any questions, please don’t hesitate contacting Elisabeth Ernst and Judith Schulte ([email protected]) OPERAS is the European Research Infrastructure for open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities. Its Special Interest Group on “Advocacy” works on topics related to the communication and advocating of Open Access in the social sciences and humanities and of those disciplines.

scholarly journals Field-based Learning in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather N. Fedesco ◽  
Drew Cavin ◽  
Regina Henares
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Education Courses

Field-based learning in higher education is lacking both in practice at colleges and in research within the academic literature. This study aims to address these deficits by exploring the benefits of, and suggesting strategies for, executing field study in higher education across a variety of courses. We report the results of a qualitative research design that included the observation of five courses within the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Approximately eight students per observed course were interviewed three times during their course to assess perceptions of the class, their peers and instructor, the field experiences, and their motivation throughout the course. In total, 130 individual interviews were conducted with 45 students. Results revealed that field-based learning enhances the degree of relatedness students feel with their classmates and instructors, they have a greater degree of intrinsic motivation in the course, and these experiences facilitate learning in ways that may not be replicated in the traditional classroom. In addition, we created a typology of field-based learning, which includes eight different trips that could be employed in higher education courses. We also identified general strategies to improve the execution of these trips.

scholarly journals Introduction: The cultural politics of food and eating in Poland and beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Hryciuk ◽  
Katarzyna E. Król
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Social History ◽  
Food Studies ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Methodological Reflection

This special issue of Ethnologia Polona comprises contributions from an international group of scholars who scrutinize the culturally embedded politics of food and foodways in Poland and beyond. The idea for the special issue “The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating in Poland and Beyond” stemmed from discussions and collaborations with academics working in the area of food studies, and with those who use food as a lens to look at different social, cultural and political phenomena. Both groups share a commitment to a critical perspective in the social sciences and humanities, and a need to strengthen this position within international academia.  We developed this special issue around the cultural politics of food and eating in order to highlight the importance of a critical perspective while studying food-related issues. Our aim is to demonstrate both the thematic scope and the theoretical directions present in the contemporary studies produced by scholars working on Poland, as well as Polish researchers working on other regions. The territorial scope of the volume is wide as it features analyses based on abundant ethnographic and historical material from Poland, Belgium, Georgia, Ukraine, Dagestan and Argentina. The volume features contributions from scholars representing different disciplines (anthropology, sociology, social history and cultural studies) based on original research (extended ethnographic fieldwork, archival research and autoethnography) and presenting a clear methodological reflection.

scholarly journals To Think or Not to Think with Theory in Qualitative Research

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Yacoub
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Multiple Perspectives

Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Viewing Data across Multiple Perspectives is a book that challenges the traditional way of analyzing qualitative data. The book invites researchers who use qualitative methods to think with theory when it comes to analyzing their data since analyzing the data with no theory in mind can make injustice to the data. Thinking with theory, however, can enrich one’s study and direct the process of the data analysis. The authors offer us six theories, as examples, to think with when analyzing qualitative data. These theories are: Derrida’s Deconstruction, Spivak’s Marginality, Foucault’s Power/Knowledge, Butler’s Performativity, Deleuze’s Desire, and Barad’s Intra-action. To clarify their approach, the authors interviewed two first-generation-scholar participants: Cassandra and Sera and analyzed their data in the chapters of the book; each chapter analyzes the data from the perspective of one of the six aforementioned theories, and each chapter is proceeded by an interlude in which the authors explicate why they have chosen this particular theory.

scholarly journals Transformations through “Community-First” Engagement

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. i-x
Author(s):  
Peter Andrée ◽  
Isobel Findlay ◽  
David Peacock
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Partnership Research ◽  
Short Video

The content in this special issue was created in the context of the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE, pronounced “suffice”) partnership research project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada beginning in 2012. As you will see in this short video, our project seeks to develop strong community-campus partnerships “by putting community first”.

scholarly journals A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step

Asian Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Ngoc Tho Nguyen ◽  
Jana S. Rošker
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Single Step ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Biennial Conference ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

This special issue of Asian Studies is dedicated to Confucianism in Vietnam. The idea of this topic has a rather long history. It can be traced back to the second biennial conference of the World Consortium for Research on Confucian Cultures (WCRCC), which took place in Vietnam in 2016 and was hosted by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University––Ho Chi Minh City under the theme “Confucianism as a Philosophy of Education for the Contemporary World”.

scholarly journals How Data Curation Enables Epistemically Responsible Reuse of Qualitative Data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Karcher ◽  
Dessislava Kirilova ◽  
Christiane Pagé ◽  
Nic Weber
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Curation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Recent Trends

Data sharing and reuse are becoming the norm in quantitative research. At the same time, significant skepticism still accompanies the sharing and reuse of qualitative research data on both ethical and epistemological grounds. Nevertheless, there is growing interest in the reuse of qualitative data, as demonstrated by the range of contributions in this special issue. In this research note, we address epistemological critiques of reusing qualitative data and argue that careful curation of data can enable what we term “epistemologically responsible reuse” of qualitative data. We begin by briefly defining qualitative data and summarizing common epistemological objections to their shareability or usefulness for secondary analysis. We then introduce the concept of curation as enabling epistemologically responsible reuse and a potential way to address such objections. We discuss three recent trends that we believe are enhancing curatorial practices and thus expand the opportunities for responsible reuse: improvements in data management practices among researchers, the development of collaborative curation practices at repositories focused on qualitative data and technological advances that support sharing rich qualitative data. Using three examples of successful reuse of qualitative data, we illustrate the potential of these three trends to further improve the availability of reusable data projects.

scholarly journals Editorial Note

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Editorial Board ◽  
Andressa Liegi Vieira Costa ◽  
Max Steuer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Collection Methods

This Editorial Note contains a summary of the IAPSS Politikon webinar on 'Research and Education in Times of Pandemic' that focused on elucidation of online qualitative data collection methods and online education via using Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It also announces the acceptance of the journal to ERIH PLUS database for the social sciences and humanities. 

The State of Qualitative Research in Hospitality: A 5-Year Review 2014 to 2019

2020 ◽  
pp. 193896552094029
Author(s):  
Sean McGinley ◽  
Wei Wei ◽  
Lu Zhang ◽  
Yanyan Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Employee Satisfaction ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Exit Interviews ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
Market Focus ◽  
Review 2014

In response to this special issue, concerned with methods and measurements, a comprehensive review of the last 5 years of qualitative research was conducted in the top five journals that primarily publish articles pertaining to the hospitality industry. A total of 197 articles were read and analyzed for this review with a focus on the state of trustworthiness in the contemporary hospitality literature. An outline of the methods, techniques, and successes are presented in this review as are recommendations for scholars, journal editors, journal reviewers, and our partners in industry who use qualitative data for many reasons including but not limited to employee satisfaction surveys, market focus groups, and employee exit interviews. In addition, the relatively novel and nascent ideas regarding empirical rigor such as transparency and replicability are introduced to the hospitality field.

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