Qualitative Inquiry

This page contains resources that may be useful for people who are not taking my qualitative methods classes but might be interested in learning what qualitative inquiry is and browse through some resources.

Make sure you browse through the links on the left for more detailed information including how to think about qualitative theoretical frameworks, journals that are open to accepting qualitative research articles, open houses offered at the University of Memphis for qualitative inquiry, abstracts for International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry, and research on using wikispaces to teach qualitative research methods to graduate students.

Resources

Huge repository of qualitative resources
My Qualitative TiddlyWiki by Cynthia Russell

For your browsing pleasure, I have included below some of my presentations delivered as a guest lecturer in other classes or presentations in Educational Research Friday Seminars.

Tell me about X: Designing an in-depth interview study (Educational Research Seminar Talk, February 22, 2008)

Hearing and telling stories:Using qualitative research methodology (Audiology and Speech Pathology Colloquium, February 15, 2008)

Qualitative dissertation: Getting it done (Educational Research Seminar Talk, October, 2007)

Research people, research ourselves: Introduction to Qualitative Inquiry (Guest Lecture for Dr. Lightsey, October 2007)

Becoming a research gumshoe: Cracking the art and science of framing qualitative research purpose and questions (Educational Research Seminar Talk, November, 2006)

Madonna reinvented: Can that be a qualitative framework? (Educational Psychology Colloquim, October, 2006)

Words don't make qualitative data: Conducting qualitative inquiry scientifically (Guest lecture for Dr. Lightsey, October 2006)