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The Tenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place May 21-24, 2014 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

As a speaker at this year’s Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Dr. Sharlene Hesse-Bieber will be presenting a on HyperRESEARCH and HyperTRANSCRIBE as part of an emergent technology workshop. In addition she will also be presenting several panel sessions that she also organized.

The 10th Congress will be built around the changes that have occurred in the field of qualitative inquiry in the decade since the Congress was launched as an alternative site for collaboration and discourse. The 2014 Congress will offer delegates an opportunity to assess the major changes that have taken place over the last decade, and scholars the opportunity to explore a decade of change, while foregrounding qualitative inquiry as a shared, global endeavor.

Panels, workshops and sessions will take up the politics of research. Delegates will be able to form coalitions, to engage in debate  on how qualitative research can be used to advance the causes of social justice, while addressing racial, ethnic, gender and environmental disparities in education, welfare and healthcare.

For additional information please visit the conference website:http://www.icqi.org/  

From: Dr. Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber

To: The Researchware Community

As the conference coordinator of this year’s 2014 International Mixed Methods Conference sponsored by the Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA), I am especially interested in getting our Researchware community involved in this exciting event. This year, MMIRA is holding its International Mixed Methods Research Conference at Boston College. The theme of the conference is "Coming at Things Differently: Challenges, Advances and Diversity Within and Across Mixed Methods Research Communities." The conference will take place at Boston College June 27th and 28th, 2014. 

I will be presenting a workshop for Boston College faculty and their students that will take place June 29, 2014. While the cost of the workshop is $90, there is a discounted group rate, for every four members, one will attend for free. If you wish to make group rate arrangements, please contact me and I will help you further with any registration questions.

Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to attend this workshop and expand your knowledge of mixed methods research!

CLICK HERE for full workshop descriptions and to register!

At Researchware, while we are a US-based company, we're always delighted by how many people around the world utilize our software. Seeing it pop up in new places is always exciting to us. We hope that our software enables researchers to explore new topics and areas of qualitative research that is their inspiration and passion as much as making these tools are to us.

Most recently, we discovered a guide to HyperRESEARCH, our simply powerful tool for qualitative research, in Serbo-Croatian. Here it is in .pdf format, for reference, for anyone else out there looking for a basic Serbo-Croatian guide to our product.

I'm a member of several discussion lists online involving qualitative research, and especially qualitative software.

One question that comes up frequently is: How do I choose the right software for my qualitative research?

When qualitative data analysis software first became available a little more than two decades ago, the conversation was about whether to use it at all! (See Smith, Beverly A., and Sharlene Hesse-Biber. "Users' Experiences with Qualitative Data Analysis Software Neither Frankenstein's Monster Nor Muse." Social Science Computer Review 14.4 (1996): 423-432)

While these days the use of specialized software for qualitative data analysis is widely accepted and even encouraged, the first question you should ask when considering QDA software is "What benefits will I get from using specialized software?"