7th Qualitative Research Conference
7th Qualitative Research Conference
8th - 10th September 2008
Talbot Campus Bournemouth University
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Rosemarie Anderson - Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, USA
'Intuitive Inquiry: Transforming Self and Others through Research Praxis'
Biography:
- M.Div., Theology, Graduate Theological Union, 1983
- Ph.D., Psychology, University of Nebraska , 1973
- B.A., Psychology, Central College , 1969
Rosemarie Anderson , Ph.D. is Professor of Transpersonal Psychology in ITP’s Global PhD Program. Before joining the ITP Core Faculty in 1992, she taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Wake Forest University , and the University of Maryland ’s Asian and European Programs. From 1983-87, she served as a university dean for the University of Maryland ’s European Division in Germany . In 1987, Rosemarie Anderson was ordained an Episcopal priest, served as a parish priest and university chaplain, and continues to serve her local community on a pro bono basis.
Dr. Anderson is the author of Celtic Oracles: A New System for Spiritual Growth (Random House, 1998) and co-author, with William Braud , of Transpersonal Research Methods for the Social Sciences: Honoring Human Experience (Sage Publications, 1998) .
In collaboration with students and faculty , Dr. Anderson developed a transpersonal research method know as Intuitive Inquiry that invites intuition into the research process and a research practice known as Embodied Writing that brings the finely textured experience of the body to the art of writing and data gathering. Both Intuitive Inquiry and Embodied Writing blend the rigors of mindful spiritual practice with the rigors of scientific inquiry. In 2004, she guest edited a special issue of The Humanistic Psychologist focused solely on Intuitive Inquiry. In the mid-2000s, she developed the Body Intelligence Scale that provides quantitative measures of three types of bodily awareness applicable to health and well being . This scale is now available to researchers who are interested in the relevance of the scale to stress-related diseases and personal transformation. Her current interests include the further development of Intuitive Inquiry into a multi-method approach to research, the study of the multi-cultural and global expressions of intuition, and continuing studies on the applications of the Body Intelligence Scale.
In 2007, Dr. Anderson launched her own website, Wellknowing Consulting Services
offering intuition and transpersonal research consultation to the public. Research resources on intuition, body intelligence, and transpersonal research methods are available to the public on this website.
Dr Emma Bell - Bath University, UK
Title and bio coming soon!
Professor Kathy Charmaz - Sonoma State University, USA
'Advancing Qualitative Research through Grounded Theory'
Biography:
Kathy Charmaz is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Faculty Writing Program at Sonoma State University. In the latter position, she works with helping faculty complete their research and scholarly writing. She has written or co-edited seven books including Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time, which won awards from the Pacific Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis , which recently received a Critics’ Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association. Her co-edited volume with Antony Bryant, Handbook of Grounded Theory, appeared in 2007.
She has also published numerous articles and chapters on the experience of chronic illness, the social psychology of suffering, writing for publication, and grounded theory and qualitative research. She has served as President of the Pacific Sociological Association, Vice-President of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Vice-President of Alpha Kappa Delta, the international honorary for sociology, editor of Symbolic Interaction, and Chair of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. She has received the 2001 Feminist Mentors Award and the 2006 George Herbert Mead award for lifetime achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.
Professor Johnny Saldaña - Arizona State University, USA
'Performative Social Science: the Drama of Data'
Johnny Saldaña is a Professor of Theatre at Arizona State University ’s (ASU) School of Theatre and Film in the Katherine K. Herberger College of the Arts, where he has taught since 1981. He is the author of Longitudinal Qualitative Research: Analyzing Change through Time, and the editor of Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre , both published by AltaMira Press. Mr. Saldaña’s research in longitudinal studies and performance ethnography has received awards from the American Alliance for Theatre & Education, the National Communication Association—Ethnography Division, and the ASU Herberger College of the Arts. He has published a wide range of research articles in such journals as Research in Drama Education, Multicultural Perspectives, Youth Theatre Journal, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Teaching Theatre, and Qualitative Inquiry, and has contributed several chapters to research methods handbooks.
Mr. Saldaña has been an invited presenter and instructor for such organizations and universities as the American Educational Research Association, the American Alliance for Theatre & Education, the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, Narrative Inquiry in Music Education, the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, the International Drama in Education Research Institute, Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed, New York University, Northwestern University, the University of Alberta, the University of Victoria, the University of Leeds, and the University of Amsterdam.
Special Guests: Professors Ken & Mary Gergen
'In Conversation'
Kenneth Gergen is a Senior Research Professor at Swarthmore College , and the President of the Board of the Taos Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to the promulgation of social constructionism in practice. His major writings include Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge, Realities and Relationships, The Saturated Self, and An Invitation to Social Construction. He has been a longstanding partner with Mary Gergen in exploring performance potentials.
Mary Gergen, Professor Emerita, Psychology & Women’s Studies, Penn State University , Delaware County, is a scholar at the intersection of feminist theory and social constructionism. Her most recent book is Feminist Reconstructions in Psychology: Narrative, Gender and Performance. With Kenneth Gergen, she has edited Social Construction, A Reader, and written a primer, Social Constructionism, Entering the Dialogue. She is also a founder and Board member of the Taos Institute, a non-profit educational organization. She has been doing performance work since the 1980’s.
Special Guest: Professor Andrew C. Sparkes - University of Exeter
Professor Andrew C. Sparkes is Director of the Qualitative Research Unit at University of Exeter. His research interests are eclectic and include: performing bodies and identity formation; interrupted body projects and the narrative reconstruction of self; sporting auto/biographies; and the lives and careers of marginalized individuals and groups. These interests are framed by a desire to develop interpretative forms of understanding coupled with an aspiration to represent lived experience using a variety of genres.
- Wellknowing Consulting Services
The website of Professor Rosemarie Anderson
