Overview
The 24th Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference (“Qualitatives”), to be held at St. Thomas University and the University of New Brunswick has three objectives. First, it seeks to highlight the social process and meaning of doing qualitative research in at least 21 disciplines and/or fields. The Qualitatives has organized all of the sessions according to social processes, rather than substantive topics. This arrangement facilitates identifying social processes across disciplines and across settings.
Second, the Qualitatives continues its enduring objective of nurturing novice researchers. The Qualitatives are widely known for its ability to nurture novice researchers, not only among graduate students, but also among faculty who are turning to qualitative methodology. Some one-third of the presenters are students. The conference includes both novice and veteran researchers in one and the same session. The selected chairs are capable of encouraging the novice researchers to present their findings; the conference has dispensed with discussants entirely, to free up the session to the constructive critiques from the audience as a whole.
Third, the Qualitatives seeks to highlight interdisciplinary perspectives related to qualitative research. To that end, it is beneficial to steer away from organizing sessions according to substantive, empirical topics, but to have, instead, a mix of disciplines within each session.
Organizing Committee
Deborah van den Hoonaard (St. Thomas University) is Canada Research Chair in Qualitative Research and Analysis and is Professor of Gerontology and the dissemination of her work involved China, England, Australia, and North America. She has authored two books. With Will C. van den Hoonaard, she was the organizer of two previous “Canadian Qualitatives” (1999 and 2000) in Fredericton, NB.
Will van den Hoonaard ( University of New Brunswick), a professor of Sociology, also organized the Annual Meetings of the Atlantic Association of Sociologists and Anthropologist (1995). He has authored six books and has lectured in Scandinavia, Slovenia, Brazil, China, Argentina, and Australia.
Jacqueline Low (UNB) is Associate Prof. of Sociology at UNB and has been a very active participant at many previously-held Canadian Qualitatives.
Gary Bowden ( University of New Brunswick) is Associate Professor/Director Graduate Studies, Sociology, UNB.
Deborah Murray (UNB) is a PhD student in the Faculty of Education at UNB.
John McKendy ( St. Thomas University) is Professor of Sociology at STU and is an active organizer of the Qualitative-Research Network at UNB and STU.
Dawne Clarke ( St. Thomas University) recently completed her PhD and is Assistant Professor of Criminology at STU.
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