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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.
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