Activities
The proposed programme will consist of a series of high-level workshops and associated training events, that will develop and disseminate the increasingly specialised methods for data collection, analysis and theory-building in qualitative social research. The entire programme will also culminate in a major international conference to disseminate its activities.
While the programme is defined in terms of research strategies and methods, the emphasis throughout will be on the practical work of applying techniques to empirical social research. The emphasis will also be firmly on the interdisciplinary exploration of methods, and the translation of methodological innovation into research practice. The workshops will focus on a number of key themes. They will include:
- The collection and analysis of visual data;
- The collection and analysis of narrative and discourse data;
- The development and use of archives of oral history and other qualitative data types;
- The integration of spatial analysis into ethnographic and archival research;
- The use of innovative information technologies for analysing, sharing and disseminating qualitative research;
- The use of qualitative data for developing and evaluating evidence-based social policy and practice;
- The use of multi-method research designs to integrate qualitative and quantitative methodologies
For more information, please consult the EUROQUAL website: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/euroqual/
