The Sixth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from May 26-29, 2010. The theme of the 2010 Congress is "Qualitative Inquiry for a Global Community in Crisis." It is clear that in these troubling political times qualitative researchers are called upon to become human rights advocates, to honor the sanctity of life, and the core values of privacy, human dignity, peace, justice, freedom from fear and violence.

The 2010 Congress will offer scholars the opportunity to form coalitions, to engage in debate, and dialogue on how qualitative research can be used to can advance the causes of social justice, while addressing racial, ethnic, gender and environmental disparities in education, welfare and healthcare. Delegates will show how critical inquiry can be used to bridge gaps in cultural and linguistic understandings.

Of Special Note: One of ResearchWare's Founder, Dr. Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber will be running a workshop!

Workshop Title: Mixed and Emergent Methods Workshop

May 27th, 2010 Afternoon Session: 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM ( Room # :TBA)

This workshop will introduce qualitatively driven approaches to mixed methods and emergent methods data collection and analysis. We will introduce the concept of "emergent" and "mixed" methods. We will employ a case study approach that introduces research projects that sucessfully apply both types of methods in their data collection and analysis strategies. We discuss the strengths and limitations of in applying these methods tools.

The second half of the workshop will demonstrate how to integrate the use of computer-assisted software into a mixed methods and emergent research project. Computer assisted software can be an excellent way to manage large numbers of qualitative text, audio, video and graphic data as well as still images.

We will demonstrate how computer assisted software can carry out a grounded theory approac to the analysis of your data --from memoing to coding and retrieving your materials. It is also possible to conduct team work across geographical regions.

We will explore how to carry out a specific mixed methods analysis including transforming your qualitative data into quantitative categories ( quantitizing ). We will also explore some of the methodological issues involved in employing software in your analysis. We will use HyperResearch, an easy to learn user friendly computer-assisted software package that analyzes qualitative data ( text, audio, video and graphics) as well as HyperTranscribe, a computer-assisted transcribing software tool (you can download a free demo of each product at researchware.com ). We will address the following in our data analysis portion of the workshop:

What is your data analysis style?
Before the workshop meets we ask you bring a short reflexive memo on this question that you would like to share with the group (I will call on volunteers to share their memo).
We will provide a didactic exercise on finding your data analysis standpoint.
We will take up some advanced features of the HyperResearch and HyperTranscribe program starting with the Hypothesis Tester and advanced coding and memo features, including the network diagramming. We will talk about transcription as a form of data analysis.
In addition, we will demonstrate how HR software is used to integrate a mixed methods analysis and emergent methods analysis.

Workshop Link: http://www.icqi.org/workshop.html

For more information on the conference in general, please visit ICQI website: www.icqi.org