We're excited to share our upcoming FAIR Coffee event! 
Featuring a lecture by Dr. Szilvia Zörgő, a cultural anthropologist with a PhD in mental health sciences.
June 17th 2025
11.00 - 12.00 (CET)
Hybrid event: Paul Henri Spaaklaan 1, Room C2.017 (or via Zoom)
Topic: "The Potential of Interoperability in Qualitative Research"
Register here: https://www.openscience-maastricht.nl/events/fair-coffee-lecture-szilvia-zorgo/
Deadline for registration: June 16th, 2025
Question for #qualitativeresearch and #sociology people: what platforms have you used to collect data for diary studies? Looking for recs!
Heads up for #qualitativeresearch folks: version 3.6 of the free #foss #qda tool QualCoder has both Mac and Windows installers, significantly reducing the barriers for new users (https://github.com/ccbogel/QualCoder/releases/). I'm teaching a free online workshop through #virginiatech libraries this Wednesday if you want to know more. https://calendar.lib.vt.edu/event/14147682
From the blog and expert Q&A, the new #NVivo15 looks like paying to upgrade only buys you (1) the ability, a decade late, to move files easily between PC and Mac and (2) the ability to pay them $250 a year for integation of (#openSource) #AI tools. Not fixing what's missing on Mac or the bugs or the speed or adding new integrated features. #qualitativeresearch #nvivo
Pleased to say one of our most popular workshops is running again in Oct '24.
https://buff.ly/3xPQnxO
Join us for a day discussing the principles of #qualitative data analysis and experimenting with some of the practical tasks involved. This one usually fills up quickly so get in quick. Small groups and two tutors make this a focused, friendly and thought-provoking day. #QualitativeDataAnalysis #QDA #QualitativeResearch #ThematicAnalysis #ContentAnalysis #DiscourseAnalysis #GroundedTheory
I am proud to announce that the pre-release of OpenQDA is now live. #OpenQDA is an #opensource qualitative coding software that we are developing at @zemki . It can now import and export codebooks from other #QDA programs and autotranscribe. #qualitativeresearch #qualitativedata #sociology #communications #groundedtheory #qualitativeresearch #qualitativedata @sociology @communicationscholars @unibremen For more information: https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/research-software-made-at-zemki-pre-release-of-openqda-is-now-live/
Has anyone compared the quality of local Whisper-AI based #transcription tools? I'm seeing both aTrain and noScribe mentioned a bunch, but have found only one basic feature comparison in German ( https://sozmethode.hypotheses.org/2117 ) There has to be more on this?
Anyone has experience? Opinions? #qualitativeResearch
#newResearch explores enacted femininity, cultural norms, and status in the context of sorority rush week at a large southern university. Thanks Rachel Allison, Leticia Bulla, and Megan Phillips.
#sororities #femininity #sociology #qualitativeResearch @sociology
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00380237.2024.2330473
Spread the word: #OpenQDA is available as early access. It’s a new software for #coding of #qualitative #data such as #interviews, #protocols and others. OpenQDA is clear and easy to use, you can work together as a team in real time, extend everything via plugins - and it's #opensource and #freesoftware. Join our #community! #qda #qualitativeresearch #qualitativedata #sociology #communications #groundedtheory @zemki @sociology @communicationscholars @unibremen https://openqda.org/
Positive Psychological Impacts of Cooking During the COVID-19 Lockdown Period: A Qualitative Study
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.635957/full
#recreationtherapy #therapeuticrecreation #qualitativeresearch
Researchers from Mersin University and Çukurova University in Turkey selected 30 people that chose to cook as a leisure activity during the COVID-19 lockdown period in 2020 and sent them open-ended questions asking about their motivation and experience.
@CLSinfra @tcdh Support for #researchSoftware development is hard to come by, so I'm grateful for this rare opportunity from @CLSinfra & @tcdh 
I look forward to working with @christof and thinking about the possibilities for enhancing #reproducibility in #qualitativeResearch via #caqdas
I am SO excited about this upcoming @CenterforOpenScience webinar on sharing sensitive qualitative data with the talented Rebecca Campbell, which will be on February 15 at 11am US Eastern!
Register:
https://cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dxQ3cWepRjaFGw8mT2hHkw
Read her team's paper here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25152459231205832
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Appealing to secular morality and conveying a sense of urgency have been found in the past to be more effective frames to support policy. Perhaps it is time for Ontario to present active school travel as an urgent matter in need of collective action.
The research presented in this paper was developed as an open, reproducible research project:
Interactive fiction authors!
I am looking for authors/writers/narrative designers to join a short virtual group discussion to chat about aspects of your craft— especially managing scope and combinatorial explosion on larger projects.
(This is for my PhD in interactive narrative.)
If that's you, click the link for more details. Either way, please boost!
https://intfiction.org/t/would-you-like-to-take-part-in-an-interactive-fiction-group-discussion/65616
Can someone please recommend any good open source programs for qualitative data analysis? I am using Nvivo, but would like to find alternatives.
#opensource #openscience
#QDAS #STS #qualitativeresearch #qualitativedata #academicchatter
Marjan Nadim held a brilliant lecture about generalization in qual research at OsloMet today. My photo librabry is now fully stocked with methodological one-liners.
![Marjan, standing in front of a slide with the following quote: "[Qualitative researchers'] attitude towards generalisation is rather like that of the Victorian middle classes towards sex. They do it, they know it goes on, but they rarely admit to either" (Williams, 2000: 210)](https://cdn.masto.host/sciencessocial/media_attachments/files/111/097/799/141/081/379/original/452bec983a6d93a7.jpg "Marjan, standing in front of a slide with the following quote: \"[Qualitative researchers'] attitude towards generalisation is rather like that of the Victorian middle classes towards sex. They do it, they know it goes on, but they rarely admit to either\" (Williams, 2000: 210)")
Reading list:
Paul Lichterman (2021): “Qualitative Research” Is a Moving Target
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11133-021-09499-8
Hello! This is the Official Mastodon account for Quirkos Software - a simple qualitative analysis tool.
We'll use this to post information about updates to the software, upcoming training and workshops and planned outages. Will also post content from our blog on general qualitative research, and other great articles we find about all things qualitative!
#introduction #qualitative #qualitativeresearch #caqdas #software #research
So I'm kinda a meta-metascientist, but I also consider myself part of the #metascience community, where you'll usually find me flying the flag for #qualitativeresearch. IMHO the metasci community needs more of a critical mass of folks with deep qual expertise, and I'm happy to lead the charge on that front.
Does anyone have recommended platforms/services for recruiting participants for [qualitative] research, particularly with funded academic projects in mind? Please feel free to share!
I had a list but a) cannot find it b) my lack of success with search suggests most of them are defunct now :(
