July 9, 2019
Katya Drozdova is an associate professor of political science in the School of Business, Government, and Economics at Seattle Pacific University. Dr. Drozdova used information theory to lay out a systematic
December 4, 2018
Berkay Gulen is a Ph.D. candidate in International Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, UW. Gulen is currently researching decision-making mechanisms in Turkey’s foreign policy change between 1991 and 2014 and discussed sampling and interview techniques in preparation for conducting field research.
May 16, 2018
Andre Stephens is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Washington. He presented on his discovery after completing interviews for his fieldwork that the number of interviews completed was not as important as what one learned from them.
April 24, 2018
Ande Reisman, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and QUAL Concentration student, collected data during five home stays while on a Fulbright-funded research trip to Nepal in 2016. She experienced a child’s
February 27, 2018
Emily Kalah Gade is a research scientist in the Department of Political Science and a postdoctoral fellow at the eScience Institute, UW. In 2015, Gade conducted 58 life-story-style interviews with Palestinian olive farmers and 12 semi-structured interviews with municipal workers and defense soldiers in the West Bank and Israel and presented her research on “Connection and Resistance, Examining the Impact of Checkpoints on Civilian Support for Militancy”.
November 22, 2017
There are three main criticisms for interviews – specifically semi-structured interviews as a data gathering research method – that Assistant Professor of Communication Matthew Powers highlighted for a record audience
November 9, 2017
Matthew Adeiza, PhD Candidate in Communication, spent the 2016 election cycle immersed in two rival presidential campaigns, in Ghana. Why Ghana? Because it is a promising democracy in Africa which
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
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