Morning Section

1. D. Soyini Madison

Workshop Title: Radical Performance, Neoliberalism, and Human Rights

2.Ian Stronach & Heather Piper

Workshop Title: Ungrounded theory: how to do it, undo it, do it to others, and say sorry

3. Greg Dimitriadis & George Kambereli

Workshop title:The Critical Use of Focus Groups

4. Yvonna Lincoln

Workshop Title: New Experimental Writing Forms

5. Carlos Calderón

Workshop Title: Qualitative Research quality evaluation: advance in plausible integrating proposals.

Language: Spanish;
Open to everybody but will focus in health examples;
3 hours;
Power point and flip chart paper;
will send documents to Xerox. Carlos can communicate perfectly in English.

OBJECTIVES.
• Present main stream traditions and proposals about quality evaluation.
• Discuss about the convenience of defining quality criteria from QI
• Reflex about links between those criteria and QI process and writing Rethink the role of health QI quality guides for evaluation.

CONTENTS
• QI quality evaluation: Challenges and tendencies
• Criteria, processes, and writing in QI quality evaluation
• Risks and instruments for QI critical reading
• Plausible advance routes in the debate about improving HQI quality

PROCESS
The workshop will be a combination of exposition and participative reflection about practical examples.

Objetivos:
• Exponer las principales propuestas y ejes del debate acerca de la evaluación de la calidad
• Argumentar la conveniencia de contar con criterios de calidad acordes con las peculiaridades teórico- metodológicas propias de la IC
• Debatir sobre las interrelaciones entre dichos criterios y las dimensiones de proceso y escritura de la IC
• Readecuar el papel de los listados y guías de calidad en la evaluación de la calidad de las ICs

Contenidos:
• La evaluación de la calidad de las IC: principales retos y tendencias.
• Criterios, proceso y escritura en la evaluación de la calidad en las IC
• Instrumentos y riesgos en la lectura crítica de las IC
• Posibles líneas de progreso en el debate sobre la mejora de la calidad de las ICs

Metodología y dinámica:
El desarrollo del Taller pretende llevarse cabo desde un doble enfoque deliberativo y pragmático, que posibilite profundizar en el debate teórico y a su vez avanzar en la delimitación de propuestas que sirvan para la mejora de la calidad en el trabajo investigador en IC. Para ello se intentará combinar el componente expositivo con la discusión de ejemplos prácticos y la interacción entre los asistentes.

Aspectos técnicos del Taller
.El Taller sería en español
.Dirigido a profesionales vinculados a la IC, especialmente en el ámbito de la salud.
.Duración del Taller: 3 horas.
.Medios técnicos de apoyo: cañón de diapositivas (power point) y papelógrafo o encerado.
.Los materiales a fotocopiar serían los mínimos imprescindibles y los enviaría con suficiente antelación.

6. Donna M. Mertens & Kelly M. Munger

Workshop Title: Qualitative Research and Social Transformation in the Disability Community

    This workshop will examine the role of qualitative research as a contributor to the social transformation agenda of the disability community. The philosophical assumptions of the transformative paradigm will be used to examine what is meant by ethical approaches to research with the disability community in terms of the promotion of human rights and social justice. Strategies for eliciting and documenting realities as they are experienced by people with disabilities will be discussed in terms of dimensions of diversity that are relevant in specific contexts (e.g., use of various modes of communication, need for supportive accommodations). Methods for building relationships with people with disabilities will be shared based on cultural respect and partnership development. Methodological implications for qualitative (and mixed methods) will be discussed as they are applicable for the contribution to the social transformation agenda. This workshop encourages people with disabilities and people who work with the disability community to engage in discussions of strategies and experiences relevant to these topics.

7. H. L. Goodall, Jr.

Workshop Title: Writing Quality Inquiry: Self, Stories, and Academic Life

    This workshop will provide a practical approach to crafting narratives designed for qualitative audiences and general readers. Participants will be asked to work on their own narratives as well as to provide helpful responses to the narratives of other participants. We will use my little paperback volume, Writing Quality Inquiry: Self, Stories, and Academic Life as a workbook. Participants are encouraged to read this book prior to the workshop. Copies may be obtained online from your favorite vendor or directly from the publisher (Left Coast Press). For those who cannot obtain a copy prior to the Congress, the publisher is offering a 20% discount to Congress participants onsite.

8. Anne Kuckartz

Workshop title:Introduction into MAXQDA: Setting up Your Data for a Computer Assisted Analysis

    This workshop will demonstrate the essential steps for a computer assisted qualitative study. It concentrates on the basic tasks of data analysis: Coding, writing memos, analysing data (searching for and interpreting selected segments of the texts), constructing theory. The main focus will be on revealing ways to use the computer as a tool without loosing control and flexibility, neither in respect to the data analysis nor in respect to the management of knowledge produced throughout the analysis. These topics are approached as an introduction into MAXQDA 2007, one of the leading software tools for qualitative data analysis. The workshop is hands-on, so participants should bring their own laptop.

9. Johnny Saldaña

Workshop Title: An Introduction to Ethnodrama: Autoethnography as Monologue

    This workshop will introduce the fundamentals of dramatizing data and explore how qualitative research transfers "from page to stage." The session will provide a literature review of available ethnodramas with participants reading aloud from scripts and watching videos of ethnotheatrical performance. We will then explore how the participants' personal lived experiences can become "autoethnographic monologues."

10. Janice Morse

Workshop Title: Advances in Mixed Methods Design

    In this workshop I will discuss advances in mixed-method design involving the interface of qualitative and quantitative methods. First I will distinguish between multiple-methods and mixed-methods, and why mixed-method designs may present threats to validity. We will then discuss the notion of theoretical drive, and QUAL-quan and QUAN-qual simultaneous designs. Finally, I will discuss sequential designs: QUAL-quan (single sample, data transformation) and QUAL-quan and QUAN-qual two sample designs.

11. Adele Clarke

Workshop Title: Doing Situational Maps

    Situational analysis is a method of analysis for qualitative research that can be used with interview, ethnographic, historical, visual, and/or other discursive materials, especially useful for multi-site research. There are three main cartographic approaches:

1. situational maps that lay out the major human, nonhuman, discursive and other elements in the research situation of inquiry and provoke analysis of relations among them;
2. social worlds/arenas maps that lay out the collective actors, key nonhuman elements, and the arena(s) of commitment and discourse within which they are engaged in ongoing negotiations---mesolevel interpretations of the situation; and
3. positional maps that lay out the major positions taken, and not taken, in the discursive data vis-à-vis particular axes of difference, concern, and controversy around issues in the situation of inquiry.

Through mapping the data, the analyst constructs the situation of inquiry empirically. The situation per se becomes the ultimate unit of analysis and understanding its elements and their relations is the primary goal.

This workshop will focus on the first kind of map, the situational map. It can be used to design and conduct research in a flexible and iteratively responsive manner across the duration of the project.That is, the situational map can be reconstructed over time to specify the emergent elements in the research situation of concern about which data have been and/or still need to be gathered. The maps thus capture and frame the messy complexities of the situation in their dense relations and permutations, and intentionally work against the usual simplifications so characteristic of scientific work. They also allow design from the outset to explicitly gather data about theoretically and substantively underdeveloped areas that may lie in situations of inquiry. Participants are encouraged (but not required) to come to the workshop with a draft map and be prepared to discuss it in the group. The workshop goal is to help participants get a strong grip on the situation they are studying. See www.situationalanalysis.com for more information on SA.

12. Michal Krumer-Nevo

Workshop Title: Nevo Social-change-methodologies in Social Work Research

13. Mitch Allen, Publisher, Left Coast Press, Inc.& C. Deb Laughton, Guilford Publishing Company

Workshop Title: Publishing a Qualitative Study

     This workshop is designed to give the researcher guidance on how to publish a qualitative study. Taught by one of the leading publishers of qualitative books, you will learn how to think about your book or article as a publisher or journal editor would, how to sell them on your idea, and how to get the writing finished. Using instruction, brief exercises, and group discussion, you will be given strategies for approaching and convincing a publisher to publish your book, ways to make your article attractive to editors, and concrete steps for finishing that half-done study on your computer. Bring your book or article idea to be discussed.

Afternoon Section

14. Arthur Bochner & Carolyn Ellis

Workshop Title: Writing Autoethnography and Narrative in Qualitative Research

15. Ma. del Consuelo Chapela, Carolina Martínez-Salgado,& Addis Abeba Salinas

Workshop Title: Understanding and Doing Interpretation

This workshop is open to everybody and will be presented in Spanish. First we will present a brief insight into interpretation from three perspectives: understanding of the human being as constructor of meaning and language; historic development of interpretation; and the importance of interpretation for the achievement of QI social action. Next we will experience interpretation in a way that we can see interpretation potential and also some frequent interpretation mistakes. Finally we will dialogue about the importance of an interpretation that is deep, coherent, and respectful of informants for critical QI action. If you are going to participate in this workshop, you are encouraged to bring along with you a small object with a particular value for you that you particularly cherish. "

QI08. TALLER ‘ENTENDIENDO Y HACIENDO INTERPRETACIÓN

Este taller está abierto a todos los congresistas y será presentado en español. Primero haremos un breve recorrido por los fundamentos de la interpretación desde tres perspectivas: la del entendimiento del ser humano constructor de significado y lenguaje; la del desarrollo histórico de la interpretación; y la de la importancia de la interpretación para lograr la acción de la metodología cualitativa en el cambio social. Enseguida llevaremos a cabo algunas experiencias prácticas de interpretación que nos permitan identificar algunos errores frecuentes en la interpretación. Finalmente dialogaremos sobre la importancia que tiene la interpretación profunda, coherente y respetuosa del informante para la acción crítica de la averiguación cualitativa. Se solicita a quienes se inscriban en este taller que traigan un pequeño objeto al que en un momento de su vida hayan asignado un valor particular y que resguarden como algo valioso.

16. Robin Jarrett & Angela Odoms-Young

Workshop Title: Interpreting, Writing Up and Evaluating Qualitative Materials

17. John W. Creswell

Workshop Title: Designing a Mixed Methods Study

     This workshop will focus on the steps to designing a mixed methods study that will result in a systematic, scholarly approach to combining qualitative and quantitative inquiry.

18. Norman Denzin

Workshop Title: Performance Ethnography

19. Jane F. Gilgun & Karen Staller

Workshop Title: Evidence Based Social Work: Where are we Going? How do we Get There?

20. Ronald Pelias

Workshop Title: Performative Writing

     The workshop is designed to help participants think through what constitutes performative writing and to apply that thinking to their own work. The workshop will address how texts can perform on the page, how performative writing stands in relationship to other qualitative methods, how particular writing strategies can be deployed to make a text perform, how to manage ethical concerns that emerge in performative writing, and how experience, rendered evocatively, functions as evidence. The participants will have an opportunity to engage in performative writing through a series of planned exercises that will demonstrate the power of performative writing techniques. The workshop is open to all who have an interest in performative writing as a method.

21.Sharlene Hesse-Biber

Workshop Title: EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR QUALITATIVE and MIXED METHODS RESEARCHE 

    Emergent technologies have pushed against the boundaries of qualitative research practice. This didactic workshop will explore issues regarding how qualitative researchers can effectively apply new technological innovations, including the use of the internet, mobile phone technologies, geospatial technologies, and the incorporation of computer-assisted software programs, to collect and analyze both qualitative and mixed-methods data.

This workshop will:

(l) Provide an overview of some of the newest mobile technologies (using GPS) in the service of gathering qualitative data. The mobile phone allows the researcher to capture personal experience in real time and space The collection of user experience data has enormous implications for the study of human interaction. The researcher is able to study experience in context over an extended period of time using fewer resources and in a less obtrusive manner. We provide in-depth examples how this technology might be applied to a qualitative research project. We will also discuss some of the ethical, issues emergent technologies raise for social researchers.
(2) Computer Assisted Software for Multi-media Analysis and Mixed Methods Analysis We demonstrate the latest data gathering and analysis software for analyzing multi-mediated data qualitative data -web-based data, audio, video and images using the computer-assisted data analysis package, HyperResearch and HyperTranscribe. We will also discuss the integration of computer-assisted software in analyzing qualitative and mixed methods data.

22. Alecia Jackson and Lisa A. Mazzei

Workshop Title: Straining Notions of Voice: Deconstructive Practices

    Challenging unproblematized notions and practices of voice in qualitative inquiry is the focus of this workshop. Such “troubling” of voice seeks to question its privileged status in qualitative inquiry. The goal of this workshop is to put voice under poststructural scrutiny in order to challenge the constraints that limit what “counts” as voice, and therefore data, in traditional qualitative research. Using transcripts and published work, participants will consider deconstructive strategies that seek the limits of voice toward a consideration of that which is to be learned from “evidence” that has previously gone unnamed and unnoticed.

In this workshop, participants will focus collectively on straining voice, confronting the limits of a reliance on narrative voice in qualitative inquiry. Through an examination of transcripts from participants’ own research and published qualitative work in flagship journals, participants will engage deconstructive questions that will enable a critique of authority, authenticity, presence, and meaning of voice. We envision that the activities and ensuing discussion will de-center uncritical practices of data collection, analysis, and representation; this de-centering will be accomplished by working against conventional strategies of voice that present either unadulterated (i.e., “raw”) participant voices or the inclusion of a multiplicity of voices (i.e., “polyvocality”). The workshop activities will challenge those who conduct qualitative inquiry to think differently about how they collect, analyze, and represent meaning using the voices of others, as well as their own.

This workshop will be interactive. Participants will be asked to read one published research representation before the workshop (provided by the organizers), and to share data from their own research.

23. Kathy Charmaz

Workshop Title: Grounded Theory Methodologies for Social Justice Projects

This workshop session introduces ways to use grounded theory methods to study social justice issues. Grounded theory methods consist of flexible guidelines to adopt, alter, and fit particular research problems, not to apply mechanically. With these guidelines, you expedite and systematize your data gathering and analysis. These methods and the area of social justice are treated as serving mutually complementary purposes. Grounded theory methods can assist social justice researchers in making their work more analytic, precise, and compelling. A focus on social justice can help grounded theorists to move their methods into macro analyses. Major grounded theory strategies will be presented with suggestions about how use them to spark fresh ideas about data. Familiarity with grounded theory methods is helpful but is not necessary. The work session covers an overview of basic guidelines and includes several hands-on exercises. If you have collected some qualitative data, bring a completed interview, set of fieldnotes, or document to analyze. If you do not have data yet, we will supply qualitative data for you. If you prefer to use a laptop for writing, bring one, but you can complete the exercises without a computer.

24. Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor and Richard Siegesmund

Workshop Title: Arts-Based Research: Approaches and Practices

The arts and sciences provide mutually beneficial forms of inquiry. Workshop participants will review and critique a variety of examples of arts-based studies informed by different media. Participants are encouraged to bring examples of their current or proposed research for discussion. We address issues of assessing quality in arts-based research.