Monthly Archives January 2010

FQS 11(1) “Biography, Risk and Uncertainty” online

I would like to inform you that FQS 11(1) — “Biography, Risk and Uncertainty” (http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/33), edited by Jens Zinn — is available online (see http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/archive for former issues). In addition to articles relating to “Biography, Risk and Uncertainty”, FQS 11(1) contains various single contributions as well as articles, belonging to FQS Reviews. A) FQS 11(1) [...]

COMET 2010 Abstract Deadline Extended

The abstract deadline for the 2010 COMET conference will be extended to Friday February 5th 2010. For information regarding abstract submission guidelines please visit: http://www.bu.edu/comet/call-for-papers/ To submit your abstract please visit our online form: http://www.bu.edu/comet/call-for-papers/submit-your-abstract/ For general conference information: www.bu.edu/comet

Narrative and Mixed Methods Research Workshop

Centre for Longitudinal Studies Narrative and Mixed Methods Research Workshop Institute of Education 25th February 2010 9:30am – 4:30pm There are many different approaches to mixed methods research. This practical workshop will focus on the use of narrative in both qualitative research and in quantitative longitudinal research and on the benefits and challenges of using [...]

Call for Papers Journal für Psychologie

The German Journal für Psychologie calls for papers for a special issue on Gender studies in psychology. For the one’s among us who speak German please feel free to read further here: http://www.journal-fuer-psychologie.de/call-genderforschung.html#c502

Raphael Samuel History Centre Events and Seminars, Spring/Summer 2010

Psychoanalysis and History Seminars Wednesday evenings 5.30pm. Everyone welcome. 10 February 
Elspeth Graham (Liverpool John Moores), ‘Horses falling, horses flying: a seventeenth-century royalist’s management of death and defeat’. Venue: Low Countries Room, Institute Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, WC1   10 March
Susanna Neurath (Tavistock Clinic), ‘The Founding of an Emigre Family Business in Post-WWII [...]

Graduate seminar, CNR and GI: Narratives of women’s belonging: Life stories from an East London street

Graduate Seminars in Narrative, Discourse and Social Representations The Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London and The Gender Institute, London School of Economics Narratives of women’s belonging: Life stories from an East London street. Nicola Samson, University of East London Tuesday February 9th, 5.00-6.30 Graham Wallas Room, A550, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, [...]

Call for papers – Special Issue of Qualitative Research in Psychology – Pluralism in Qualitative Research in Psychology

CALL FOR PAPERS January 2010 Qualitative Research in Psychology Special Issue: Pluralism in Qualitative Research in Psychology Guest Editors: Nollaig Frost and Sevasti-Melissa Nolas Qualitative research methods in psychology are widely accepted.  Single method approaches (e.g. narrative analysis, discourse analysis, ethnography, grounded theory, thematic analysis, interpretative phenomenological analysis) can be found on their own or [...]

CFPs: ‘The act of seeing: visuality and the social life of methods’ panel, The Social Life of Methods Conference, CRESC, 31 August – 3 September 2010, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK

The act of seeing: visuality and the social life of methods Recent years have witnessed an expansion in the use of ‘visual methodologies’ in the social sciences and related disciplines. These methodologies have highlighted the significance of visual media to the research process. However, relatively little attention has been accorded to the way in which [...]

POWS Conference 2010 – Call for Papers

 <http://www.bps.org.uk/pows/pows_home.cfm> Psychology of Women Section Annual Conference 2010 14th – 16th July 2010 Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Call for papers Conference themes include: ‘Virtual Feminisms’; ‘Politics & Activism’; ‘(Dis)embodiment’ Keynote Speakers JESSICA VALENTI Feminist Activist and Executive Editor of Feministing.com Professor WENDY STAINTON-ROGERS Open University, UK Professor EVA MAGNUSSON, University of Umea, Sweden & Professor JEANNE [...]

Toronto launch of “You Don’t Play with Revolution: the Montreal Lectures of CLR James”

Please join us on Monday, February 1st at 7pm at the anitafrika dub theatre (62 Fraser St) in Toronto for the launch of “You Don’t Play with Revolution: the Montreal Lectures of CLR James”. “You Don’t Play with Revolution” is a collection of eight never-before-published lectures by the celebrated Marxist cultural critic CLR James, delivered [...]