April 28, 2017
Challenges and Strategies of Applying Biomedically-focused Regulations to Qualitative Methods All non-exempt research involving human subjects must have advance IRB approval. The University of Washington runs its own Institutional Review
February 27, 2017
Revising Your Research Question in the Field and Analyzing the Resulting Data Sara Tomczuk encountered a dichotomy of inductive and deductive reasoning through her dissertation research and shared her experience
February 22, 2017
Cabeiri Robinson picked a topic for the first QUAL Speaker Series presentation of 2017 that is both difficult to talk about and necessary to address. Robinson, the Director of the
December 6, 2016
David Lopez, PhD Candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in political science at UW, shared with the QUAL Community two mixed method case selection strategies from his dissertation work.
October 26, 2016
Ethics and data transparency standards in the social sciences are changing and there is no telling where they will land in three or four years, says assistant professor of political
September 28, 2016
Fall quarter begins and the QUAL Speaker Series line-up for the current school year is complete. One of the themes in this year’s series is ethics in qualitative research. Our
May 12, 2016
Why are mixed and qualitative methods well suited for studying sites and industries in flux? When Gina Neff, Associate Professor of Communication and QUAL Steering Committee member, was working on
March 18, 2016
Case of Participatory Development in Morocco When Afsaneh Haddadian, a PhD student at the Jackson School of International Studies at UW, went to Morocco to study Participatory Democracy, she engaged
March 15, 2016
In the early 2000s James Pfeiffer, Anthropology and Global Health Professor at UW, conducted research on Pentecostalism in Mozambique and the impact of the rapidly growing religion on public health
March 2, 2016
Revisiting the research question In the summer of 2013, anti-Roma and neo-Nazi demonstrations across Europe became violent. Sara Tomczuk, UW Sociology graduate student, set off to study under what conditions