Qualitative Community

Qualitative support group provides methodological and personal support for graduate students and faculty members conducting qualitative research. Beginning in 2002 and continuing through 2004, I have organized a qualitative support group for faculty members at the University of Florida, College of Education. Our bi-weekly meetings focused on theoretical and methodological issues related to our qualitative research. 2005 I began a student support group with aims and purposes similar to those of the faculty group, thereby providing students with feedback concerning their research and writing, as well as with identifying possibilities for the presentation and publication of their research. The latest addition to our support system is Qualitative Gestalt group that explores the personal in qualitative researchers.

Qualitative conferences

Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Conference

International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

Organizations for Qualitative Researchers

Association for Qualitative Research (An international association for those with an interest in qualitative research)
Cochrane Qualitative Methods Network
Qualitative Research Consultants Association (QRCA)
Qualitative Research Interest Group (QRIG), Portland University
Qualitative Interest Group at the University of Georgia

Sharon Hayes, West Virginia University
Ivy Hsieh, Sam Houston State University
Sebnem Cilesiz, Ohio state University
Carol Isaac, University of Florida
Marco Gemignani, Duquesne University
Aline Gubrium, Spellman College
Herman Knopf, University of South Carolina
Ana Puig, University of Florida