ESA

ESA Qualitative Methods Research Network

President: Shalva Weil (Israel)

3rd MID-TERM CONFERENCE
ADVANCES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PRACTICE
Cardiff University September 4th-6th 2006

Organized in cooperation with the Research Committee
'Interpretive Sociologies' of the Swiss Sociological Association"

PROGRAMME

Monday September 4th / Dydd Llun Medi 4ydd
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 13:00	Registration
Conference Opening
14:00 - 14:20	Welcome by Shalva Weil, President of the ESA RN Qualitative Methods
14:20 - 14:30	Announcements and questions: Anne Ryen, David Silverman & Christoph Maeder
14:30 - 15:30	Plenary 1 Sara Delamont Through the Lebanon Gate: Arguments against Auto-ethnography Chair: Anne Ryen
15:30 - 18:00	Break / late registration
16:00 - 18:00	WORKSHOP 1 STREAM A: MULTI-METHODS / SOCIAL PROBLEMS Chair: Thomas S. Eberle Laura S Lorenz: Using Narrative Analysis of a Patient’s Photographs and Interview Text to Understand Living with Traumatic Brain Injury and Facilitators and Barriers to Recovery from the Patient’s Perspective Jonathan Scourfield et al.: *A qualitative sociological autopsy of individual suicides* Zelda Tomlin et al.: *Integrated Research: methodology to address the research-implementation gap and the consolidation of qualitative research in applied fields* Maggi Toner-Edgar: *Thinking Caps. Examining the Relationship between Experiential Learning and ‘Intelligent Making’* Nicole Witte: *Biographical case reconstruction and interaction analysis. How to combine different types of data and different methods?* STREAM B: RESEARCHING THE INTERNET Chair: Christoph Maeder Maria Giatsi : *Emerging tools in qualitative research methods: asynchronous online discussion and the use of WebCT* Gevisa La Rocca: Methods of qualitative analisys and virtual communication places. Study on the evolution of telework in Italy along with a dedicated mailinglist Francesco Pisanu: *Expanding the cyber-ethnography from the on-line to the off-line and vice versa: how to study virtual groups when the seem to become real* Anne Ryen: *Spaces of slowness of fast tools: Accomplishing sense in the e-mail interview* STREAM C: CONVERSATION ANALYSIS / TRANSCRIPTION / LANGUAGE Chair: David Silverman Susann Hansen: *A living breathing corpus? Some issues in discourse and conversation analytic work with Internet-based data* Pirjo Nikander: The art of transcription and translation Sookhoe Eng: *A qualitative study of UK Chinese with diabetes: an appreciation of the methodological issues involved.*

Tuesday September 5th / Mawrth Medi 5ed

09:30 - 11:30 WORKSHOP 2
STREAM A: RESEARCH ETHICS / INTERVIEWS
Chair: Shalva Weil

Jan Coetzee: Qualitative methodology and researching social suffering

Pauline Savy: "Suffering in silence: The problem of bestowing meaning on unspeakable illness"

STREAM B: ETHNOGRAPHY / WRITING
Chair: Giampietro Gobo

Marie Buscatto: Ethnography of artistic work. Some epistemological contributions and advances

Maggie Kusenbach: The Question of False Consciousness: Locating the Roles of Politics and Theory in US Ethnographic Practice

Ross Koppel: What do we mean by medication error? Negotiating mistakes and reality

Christoph Maeder & Eva Nadai : Negotiations at all points? An ethnographic approach to the reflexivity of interaction, organization and discourse

11:30 - 12:00 Break

12:00 - 13:00 Plenary 2 Tim Rapley
The Interview: Before and After
Chair: David Silverman

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 16:00
WORKSHOP 3
STREAM A: ETHNOGRAPHY / WRITING
Chair: Ross Koppel

Adital Ben-Ari: Agenda, power and construction of knowledge in qualitative interviewing

Joost Beuving: The ethnographer¹s voice. Towards an auctorial perspective on representation

Ruth Bridgens: Autoethnography and narrative: survival and 'being lucky'

Brigitte Smit: Ethnographic narratives in a multicultural context

STREAM B: THE QUALITY OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Chair: Anne Ryen

Thomas S Eberle: 'Adequacy’ – a criterion for qualitative research?

Giampietro Gobo: After the 'practice turn'. A new role for qualitative methods

Max Travers: New methods, old problems: A sceptical view of innovation in qualitative research

16:00 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 17:30
Plenary 3 David Silverman
Innumerable inscrutable habits: remarks on eyeing the unremarkable
Chair: Christoph Maeder

19:30 Conference dinner at Aberdare Hall

Wednesday 6th September / Dydd Mercher Medi 6ed

09:30 - 11:30
Workshop 4
STREAM A: RESEARCH ETHICS / INTERVIEWS
Chair: Marie Buscatto

Jenny Graham & Jane Lewis: Ethical Relations; research participants’ views on research ethics

Naama Sabar : "Whose Stories Are These?" – Ethical Dilemmas in Qualitative Paradigm

Bettina Kolb: The photo interview: a participatory method of visual sociology

STREAM B: THE QUALITY OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Chair: Shalva Weil

Daniela Grunow: Gendered Division of Paid and Unpaid Work at Entry into Parenthood: A Qualitative, Cross-National Comparative Panel Study

Lukas T Marciniak: Context Analysis vs. Pattern Analysis. Different Ways of Applying Qualitative Research Methodology.

Kandy Woodfield: Introducing Framework and its role in increasing quality and transparency in the analysis of qualitative data

Claudia Slegers: The Role of Software in Qualitative Data Analysis

11:30 - 12:00 Break

12:00 - 13:00 Plenary 4 Paul Atkinson (confirmed but to be announced)
Chair: Marie Buscatto

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00
Plenary 5 Clive Seale Computer assisted qualitative analysis: the potential of a 'keyword' approach
Chair: Thomas S Eberle

15:00 - 15:15 Closing address by Anne Ryen, Vice president of the ESA RN Qualitative Methods

15:15 - 15:30 Announcements / questions

15:30 Conference closes

16:00 - 17:00 Meeting of the Board of the ESA Research Newtork "Qualitative Methods"

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