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2007 PROGRAM

24th Qualitative Analysis Conference
“Towards new heights” —16-19 may 2007

St. Thomas University and University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Events:  Reception |  Plenary Session | Open Dinner and Evening | Banquet | Instant Ethnography | Conference Outing | Soirée at the Van den hoonaards

Concurrent Sessions

Thursday:    I    II     III
Friday:     IV      V      VI    VII
Saturday:     VIII

WEDNESDAY May 16

7:00 - 10:00 p.m. Reception, Rotunda, 3rd Fl., BM Hall

THURSDAY MAY 17

7:30–8:45 a.m. Breakfast Martin Hall

All Concurrent Sessions will take place in Sir James Dunn Hall

THURSDAY 9:00 - 10:30 AM CONCURRENT SESSIONS I

Room G1: DILEMMAS IN RESEARCH
Chair: Deborah Landry (Sociology, Carleton)

Dorothy Pawluch (Sociology, McMaster) The New Pediatrics Revisited

Tara-Lynn Scheffel (Educational Studies, Western Ontario) An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Engagement

Brenda Mercer (Nursing, UNB) The Methodological Challenges of Investigating Sexuality in Someone with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Room G2: CHALLENGING THE DISCOURSE 1
Chair: Nancy Poon (Sociology, Saskatchewan)

Lorraine Davies (Sociology, Western Ontario) Bottles Among Breastfeeding Moms: Negotiating for Oneself amidst the Discourse of Intensive Mothering

Dorothy Turner (Cambridge Narrows, NB) and Apple Green (Relig. St., STU) Ethnography in Wenszhou, China: The On-line Forum as a Medium for Building Understanding

Kerri Gibson (Psychology, UNB) The State’s Project-Funding Regime: Complications for Community Organizations and their Staff

Room G5 EXPERIENCING PAIN
Chair: Sharon-dale Stone (Sociology, Lakehead)

Marion Brown  (Social Work, Dalhousie) “What Does All this Mean?” Co-constructing Meaning in a Research Project with Young Women at Risk

J.Scott Kenney and Ailsa Craig (Sociology, Memorial U) Illegitimate Pain: Introducing a Concept and a Research Agenda

Kate Connolly (Applied Human Sci., Concordia) Crisis in the Neigbourhood: A Comparative Study of how Residents and Community Agencies Respond

Room G6 OTHERING
Chair: Alinde Moore (Psychology, Ashland U)

Subrata Sankar Bagchi (Anthropology, Bangabasi Evening C, Calcutta) Qualitative Research in Anthropology in Third World : Towards a New Dimension

Lisa Lunney and David Wagner (Education, UNB) “After this Research”: Questioning Authority when non-Aboriginal People Do Research in Aboriginal Communities

Fern Paul (Sociology, UNB) Bill C-31: The Lived Experience of “Indian” Women who “Married Out.”

THURSDAY MID MORNING (17 May) 10:30 - 10:45 AM BREAK

THURSDAY 10:45 - 12:15 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS II

Room G1 CHALLENGING THE DISCOURSE 2
Chair: Carolyn Arnason (Music Therapy, WLU)

Gina Petonito (Sociology & Gerontology, Miami U, Ohio) Words Can Kill Thousands: Winning the War on Terrorism and Debates over “Political Correctness”

Michelle Bates (Social Work, Hamilton-Wentworth School Bd) School Social Workers’ Creative and Adaptive Uses of Evidence-Based Practice: A Critical Reflection on the Dominant Discourse of EBP

Linda Caissie (Gerontology, STU) What is leisure?  The Research Participants vs the Academics

Room G2 (AUTO)BIOGRAPHY 1
Chair: Sophie Tamas (Canadian Studies, Carleton)

Dolores Furlong (Nursing, UNB), Rosemary Clews (Social Work, STU), and William L. Randall (Gerontology, STU) Autoethnography and Fictionalization in Reporting Qualitative Research

Elaine Jones (Sociology, UNB) Yours, Mine, and Ours: Motherhood and Children with Disability

L. Lynda Harling Stalker (Sociology, Queen’s) A Tale of Two Narratives: Using First- and Second-Order Narratives in Sociological Research

Room G5 CONSTRUCTING MEANINGS 1
Chair: Elizabeth Graham (Sociology, Brandon)

Gary Bowden (Sociology, UNB) Extreme Passivity: Landscape, Identity and Tourism around Queenstown , New Zealand

Catherine Aquino-Russell (Nursing, UNB-Moncton) Giorgi’s Phenomenological Method-A Qualitative Approach to Uuncover the Meaning of Lived Experiences

Deborah Murray (Education Studies, UNB) Reflecting light: Using Photography and Metaphor to Present Interpretation in Qualitative Research

Room G6 MYTH AND REALITY
Chair: Dawne Clarke (Criminology/Criminal Justice, STU)

Lanette Ruff (RAVE Project, Fredericton) and Nancy Nason-Clark (Sociology, UNB) Image vs Reality: Frustrations and Regrets of Conservative Protestant Mothers

Janice Best (Languages and Literatures, Acadia) and Patrick O'Neill (Psychology, Acadia University) Founding Myths: The Birth of Hockey as a Case in Point

K.W. Kirkwood (Health Sciences, UWO) and Fred Mason (Kinesiology, UNB) “Drunk Like we Used To Be:” Nostalgia at the Homecoming Festival at an Ontario University

THURSDAY 12:15 - 1:45 PM LUNCH (Martin Hall)

THURSDAY 2:00 - 2:10 pm WELCOME AT PLENARY SESSION
Ted Daigle Auditorium, Edmund Casey Hall

Welcome by Dr. Michael Higgins, President, St. Thomas University
Introduction by Will C. van den Hoonaard (Sociology, UNB)

THURSDAY 2:10 - 3:00 PM PLENARY SESSION
Ted Daigle Auditorium, Edmund Casey Hall

LAUREL RICHARDSON
Professor Emerita, Ohio State University
From the Depths: New Work, New Practices, New Ethics

Chair and Introduction: Deborah K. van den Hoonaard (Gerontology, St. Thomas)

THURSDAY 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM BREAK

THURSDAY 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS III

Room G1 EXPERIENCING KNOWLEDGE
Chair: Dan Albas (Sociology, Manitoba)

Deborah Landry (Sociology, Carleton) What's Missing from this Picture? An Inquiry into Sherlock Holmes' Question-“What about the Dog that didn't bark in the Night?”

Peter Tamas (Development Studies, St Francis Xavier) Querying the Spoken Moment: Exploring Relationships to Official Knowledge through Expert Interviews

Linda Duffett-Leger (Interdisciplinary Studies, UNB) Developing a Web-based Health Promotion Intervention for Young Women Attending University Using a Participatory Research Design

Carolyn Fleiger (Education, UNB) From the Promontory of Inclusive Education: Policy Archaeology as Critical Lens

Room G2 EXPERIENCING EXCLUSION
Chair: L. Lynda Harling Stalker (Sociology, Queen’s)

Christina Sinding (Social Work, McMaster) Bird on a Wire: Towards a Theory of Entitlement

Sharon-dale Stone (Sociology, Lakehead) Injured Workers and Experiences of Stigma

Denis LeBlanc (Interdisciplinary Studies, UNB) Looking Back and Looking Ahead: Lessons Learned in Examining a First-Nation Community’s Experiences of Participatory Action Research

Stacey Wilson-Forsberg (Interdisciplinary Studies, UNB) Social Infrastructure for the Integration and Well-Being of Newcomer Adolescents in Two New Brunswick Communities: A Research Design

Room G5 POLICY ETHNOGRAPHY 1
Chair: Anne Arber (Cancer and Palliative Care, Surrey)

David Hughes (Health Sciences, Swansea) Taking Policy Ethnography Abroad: Methodological Issues in a Study of Thailand’s Universal Coverage Health-Care Reforms

Rosamund Stooke (Education, Simon Fraser), P. J. McKenzie, and E. F. (Lynne) McKenzie (Info &Media, Western Ontario) Uncovering Barriers to Participation: Exploring the Social Organization of Community Programs for Families with Very Young Children

Brad Gash (Central Regional Health Authority (NL)) and J. E. Parsons (Social Work, Memorial University) Lone Mothers on Social Assistance: Shared and Divergent Experiences and Perspectives in Relation to the Labour Market and Welfare Systems

Rebecca Casey (Sociology, Lakehead) Experiences of Aging with a Long-term Physical Impairment

Room G6 TRANSITIONS
Chair: Charlene Shannon (Kinesiology, UNB)

Rose McCloskey (Interdisciplinary Stud.,UNB ) Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil: Nursing Home Residents’ Accounts of their Transitional Experiences

Alinde Moore (Psychology, Ashland U) and Dorothy Stratton (Social Work, Ashland U) Masculine Styles of Kinkeeping

Sue McKenzie-Mohr (Social Work, STU) Out from and beyond Trauma: Understanding Women’s Process from Rape to Living Well

C.M. Nason (Education, Queen’s) If Teaching is Dynamic Personal Encounter How Can Technology Make it Better?

THURSDAY 5:30 PM OPEN DINNER AND EVENING

We shall be posting the menus and venues of a number of Fredericton restaurants on the bulleting board. We urge you to place your name on one of those lists before 4 p.m. today so that we can call in to make a reservation. This arrangement ensures that everyone will have an oppportunity to be with colleagues and friends over dinner.

FRIDAY MORNING7:30 - 8:50 AM BREAKFAST (Martin Hall)

FRIDAY 9:00 - 10:30 AM CONCURRENT SESSIONS IV

Room G1 APPLIED SETTINGS 1
Chair: Norma J. Profitt (Social Work, STU)

Karen Wilson (Nursing, UNB), Sandee Hicks-Moore (Nursing, UNB), Tracy Carr (Nursing, UNB), Finding Meaning without Memory: Exploring Spirituality and Spiritual Care in Dementia

Timothy Epp (Sociology, Redeemer UC & York) and Rhona Shaw (Sociology, McMaster) Personhood in Dementia Care

Freda Burdett (Psychology, UNB) Women’s Experience of Caregiving during Childbirth: Needing to Feel Heard, Cared For, and Connected

Room G2 MAKING CONNECTIONS
Chair: David Hughes (Health Sciences, Swansea)

Peter Weeks (Sociology, STU) Temporality in Music and Social Interaction

Kate Morrison (Kinesiology, UNB) Valuing Physically Active Leisure: Exploring Women’s Experiences

Carolyn Arnason (Music Therapy, WLU) Arts-based Research in Music Therapy

Room G5 EXPERIENCING ORGANIZATIONS 1
Chair: Lindsay A. McDonough (Anthropoloy, Victoria)

Carmen Poulin (Psychology, UNB) Two Distinct Cultural Experiences: Lesbian and Gay Networks in the Canadian Military

Barbara Waruszynski (Defense Research and Development Canada) An Ethnographic Portrayal of Organizational Teamwork and Collaboration

Dawne Clarke (Criminology/Criminal Justice, STU) Academic Writing as an Emerging Social Process

Room G6 INTERPRETING EXPERIENCE 1
Chair: Pamela J. Pastirik (Nursing, UNB)

Maryam Chinichian (Family Relations & Human Development, Guelph), K. H. Naieni (Tehran U of Medical Sciences), K.R. Shirpak and E. M.-Tyndale (Sociology, Windsor) Reasons of Intended Abortion in Iran: A Qualitative Study

Elizabeth Graham (Sociology, Brandon) and Jacqueline Low (Sociology, UNB) Bodies out of Time: Women’s Reproductive Firsts

Sophie Tamas (Canadian Studies, Carleton) Casting Research: Performing Self, Other, and Audience

FRIDAY 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM BREAK

FRIDAY 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS V

Room G1 CONSTRUCTING MEANINGS 2
Chair: Rebecca Casey (Sociology, Lakehead)

Michael Heine and Janice Forsyth (Phys. Ed. and Recr. St., Manitoba) ‘Riding the Loser Cruiser’: An Ethnographic Study of Aboriginal Youth, Inner-City Space, and Identiy Formation in Winnipeg, MB

Angela Garcia (Sociology, Cincinnati) “She’s a Good Home”: Dog Adoption Decisions and Social Class

Patrick Parnaby (Soci & Anthro, Guelph) Preventing Crime and Buying Time: A Comparative Analysis of Risk Discourse Among Financial Planners and Crime Prevention Practitioners

Room G2 THE SELF 1
Chair: Gillian Ranson (Sociology, Calgary)

Audra Goward (Sociology, Central Michigan) The Daily Struggles of U.S. Veterans: An Ethnographic Study

Cassandra Phoenix (Sport & Health, Exeter) Age and Ageing in Context: The Narrative Construction of the Athletic Body-Self over Time

Anne Arber (Cancer and Palliative Care, Surrey) The Importance of ‘Reputation’ in Hospice and Palliative-Care Team Meetings

Room G5 DEFINING LEISURE
Chair: Heather Kitchin (Sociology, Acadia)

Gregory S. Szarycz (Business, U of Otago, NZ) Recreating ocean space: An Autoethnography of Recreational Consumption and Representation of the Merchant Marine Environment

Hans (J.I.) Bakker (Sociology, Guelph) The Road to Bali-Hali: Orientalism, Exoticism, and Romanticism

Charlene Shannon (Kinesiology, UNB) Joy and Pain during Overweight Children’s Leisure: Parents’ Stories

Room G6 NEW APPROACHES 1
Chair: Cheryl Albas (Sociology, Manitoba)

Barbara Paterson (Nursing, UNB) Meta-synthesis of Qualitative Research: The Lessons Learned Along the Journey

Tim Diamond (Disability Studies, Ryerson) The Coming Crisis in Caregiving

Dianne McCormack (Nursing, UNBSJ) Developing Instrument Items from Qualitative Data

FRIDAY 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM LUNCH (Martin Hall)

FRIDAY 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS VI

Room G1 INTERPRETING EXPERIENCE 2
Chair: Mary McCarthy (Education, UNB)

Pamela J. Pastirik (Nursing, UNB) The Use of Interpretive Description in Qualitative Research

Michael Arfken (Psychology, U of Prince Edward Island) Political Activity as Practice: A Phenomenological Investigation of Political Experience

Cathy Rogers (Sociology, Atlantic Baptist U) From the Voices of Youth: Meaning in Lived Experiences of Poverty

Room G2 POLICY ETHNOGRAPHY 2
Chair: Sarah Li (Health and Social Care Sciences, U of London)

Lindsay A. McDonough (Anthropoloy, Victoria) Perspectives on the Management of Cross-cultural Conflict in Residences

Nancy Poon (Sociology, Saskatchewan) Risky Business: Democratising Success and the Case of Federally Sentenced Aboriginal Women

Jacqueline Low (Sociology, UNB) Providing Alternative and Complementary Therapy in Urban New Brunswick

Room G5 ETHICS IN RESEARCH
Chair: Will C. van den Hoonaard (Sociology, UNB)

Heather Kitchin (Sociology, Acadia) The Tri-Council Policy Statement and Internet Research: Interrogating the Human Subject

Mary-Rose Mueller (Nursing & Health Sciences, San Diego) and Susan L. Instone (DNS, PNP, San Diego) Beyond the Informed Consent Procedure: The Informed Consent Process in Human Research

Iara Coelho Zito Guerriero (Public Health, U of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Ethical Aspects of Qualitative Health Research

Room G6 THE SELF 2
Chair: Lori Schindel Martin (Nursing, Ryerson)

Michael Courey (Sociology, Guelph) Self, Meaning, and Action: A Grounded Theory of the Self

Rose Cole (Sociology, UNB) The Self in Interaction

Norma J. Profitt (Social Work, STU) Psychic Runaway: Exposure of the Self in Feminist Qualitative Research

FRIDAY 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM BREAK

FRIDAY 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS VII

Room G1 INTERPRETING EXPERIENCE 2
Chair: Deborah K. van den Hoonaard (Gerontology, STU)

Stephen Pidwysocky (Criminology/Criminal Justice, STU) Tales from the Internet: Learning Qualitative Methods Online

Cheryl and Dan Albas (Soci, Manitoba) The Bedroom: Its Effects as a Socializing Agent in Child Development

Hazel MacRae (Sociology, Mount Saint Vincent) Reflections on the Challenges of Studying the Subjective Experience of Alzheimer’s Disease

Room G2 BLIND SPOTS AND SURPRISES
Chair: Jacqueline Low (Sociology, UNB)

Joyce Kennedy (Education, UNB) Navigating Ethical Interviews with Vulnerable Populations

Michael Clow (Sociology, STU) Being Surprised in the Interview Process

Gillian Ranson (Sociology, Calgary) Constructing “The Methods Chapter”

Room G5 EXPERIENCING ORGANIZATIONS 2
Chair: Michael Courey (Sociology, Guelph)

Lynne Gouliquer (Sociology, McGill) Greedy Institutions: The Psychological and Social Costs for Canadian Forces Female Soldiers

Marilee Reimer (Sociology, STU) Institutional Ethnography and the Transition to Careers: Institutional Responses to First-in-the-Family Undergraduate Women Arts Students in N.B.

Kellie Eisenhauer (Sociology, STU) No Loitering: An Exploration of Youth Experiences Working at the Mall

Room G6 NEW APPROACHES 2
Chair: Gary Bowden (Sociolgy, UNB)

J. R. Höflich, Georg F. Kircher, Isabel Schlote, and Christine Dietmar (Communication Science, U of Erfurt, Germany) Observing New Communication Behaviour: A Qualitative Study of Mobile Communication during the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany

Diane Naugler (Sociology, Acadia) Telling Tales of Oneself: Researcher Self Revelation and In-Depth Interview Methods

Janice McKendrick (Canadian Blood Services, Prince Edward Island) Fair Chance: Happenstance Links between Distanced Observers and Self-Narrated Research

FRIDAY 7:30 PM CONFERENCE BANQUET
Music: Nick de Vries et al Martin Hall

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