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HyperRESEARCH was the qualitative data analysis software used for "Barriers to primary care responsiveness to poverty as a risk factor for health", a research study by Gary Bloch, Linda Rozmovits and Broden Giambrone appearing online in BMC Family Practice 2011, Volume 12.

"Parent Involvement in Urban Charter Schools: New Strategies for Increasing Participation" by Joanna Smith, Priscilla Wohlstetter, Chuan Ally Kuzan and Kris De Pedro, appears in the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of The School Community Journal (vol 21, no 1) by the Academic Development Institute (ADI). HyperRESEARCH provided the data management and analytical power for the study supporting this paper.

Researchware is proud to announce that Researchware cofounder, Dr. Sharlene Hesse-Biber has been appointed Associate Editor of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research and has been appointed to the editorial board of the American Sociological Association's flagship journal, Sociological Methodology.  Sharlene Janice Nagy Hesse-Biber, Ph.D. University of Michigan, is Professor of Sociology and the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She has published widely on the impact of sociocultural factors on women’s body image, including her book Am I Thin Enough Yet? The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity (Oxford, 1996), which was selected as one of Choice Magazine’s best academic books for 1996. She recently published The Cult of Thinness (Oxford, 2007). She is the co-author of Working Women in America: Split Dreams (Oxford, 2005). She is co-editor of Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology: An Interdisciplinary Reader (Oxford, 1999), Approaches to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice (Oxford, 2004), and Emergent Methods in Social Research (Sage, 2006). She is co-author of The Practice of Qualitative Research (Sage, 2006; second edition, 2010) and co-editor of The Handbook of Emergent Methods (Guilford Publications, 2008 and upcoming paperback edition in 2011).

"Qualitative Approaches to Mixed Methods Practice" by Dr. Sharlene Hesse-Biber, a cofounder of Researchware, Inc. was presented by Sage Press online before appearing in print in the July 2010 (Vol. 16, No. 6, pp 455-468) issue of Qualitative Inquiry. We proud to congratulate our colleague on the article which has become Sage's "most downloaded article in 2010 in this journal (of all articles published in 2009 and 2010)."