FQS-Newsletter February 2007

Dear All,

Today I would like to draw your attention to the following news:

Articles, published in former FQS issues, now available in additional languages
Articles, published in FQS in February 2007
Conferences and Workshops
Links
Open Access News

Enjoy reading!

Katja Mruck

A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FORMER FQS ISSUES

"Evaluative Research in Socio-political and Socio-cultural Context: Methodological Challenges and the Urgency of Social Interventions and Health Prevention in Remote Regions" by Hélène Laperrière, published in FQS 7(4) in Spanish, is now available in English too.
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-6-e.htm

B) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN FEBRUARY 2007

Birgit Griese (Germany): Review, Birgit Schreiber (2006). Versteckt. Juedische Kinder im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland und ihr Leben danach [Hidden. Jewish Children in National Socialist Germany and Their Lives Afterwards. With a Preface Written by Kurt Gruenberg, and an Epilogue Written by Dan Bar-On]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-16-e.htm

Peter Hilger (Finand): In Search For Criteria: The State Of Qualitative Media Research. Review Essay, Lothar Mikos & Claudia Wegener (Eds.) Qualitative Medienforschung. Ein Handbuch [Qualitative Media Research. A Handbook]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-7-e.htm

Davina Hoeblich (Germany): Conference Report, Auf unsicherem Terrain—Ethnographische Forschung im Kontext des Bildungs- und Sozialwesens [On Unfamiliar Terrain—Ethnographical Research in the Fields of Education and Social Work]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-10-e.htm

Daniela Jauk (Austria): Ralf Bohnsack, Aglaja Przyborski & Burkhart Schaeffer (Eds.) (2006). Das Gruppensdiskussionsverfahren in der Forschungspraxis [Group Discussions in Research Practise]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-12-e.htm

Sunil Khanna (USA): Review, Jean McNiff & Jack Whitehead (2006). All You Need to Know About Action Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-8-e.htm

Anja Kraus (Germany): Zu medialen Einfluessen auf Habitūs und Lernstrategien bei Schueler/inne/n in der Sekundarstufe I anhand von "Subtexten des Unterrichts"—eine empirische Studie [A Study of Media Influences on the Learning Strategies of Students in the First Years of Secondary School by Means of "Subtexts"]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-11-e.htm

Mark Mason, Oswin Baker & Rebecca Hardy (UK): Drugwatch: Establishing the Practicality and Feasibility of Using Key Professionals and Illicit Drug Users to Identify Emerging Drug Tendencies
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-9-e.htm

Britta Stiefel (Germany): Der Einsatz archivierter Forschungsdaten in der qualitativen Methodenausbildung—Konzept und Evaluation eines Pilotmodells für forschungsnahes Lernen [The Use of Archived Research Data in the Training of Qualitative Research Methods—Concept and Evaluation of a Pilot Model for Learning that is Closely Linked to Research]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-15-e.htm

Paul Wainwright & Frances Rapport (UK): Conference Report, Circles within Circles—Qualitative Methodology and the Arts: The Researcher as Artist
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-5-e.htm

C) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

16-17 March, Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, Duquesne University, USA
Symposium "Phenomenology and Critical Theory"
http://www.duq.edu/phenomenologycenter/criticaltheory

24-26 June, Monash University, Australia
Conference "Transitions: Health and Mobility in Asia and the Pacific"
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/spppm/conference/index.html

10-12 August, New York University, USA
Conference "Public Views of the Private; Private Views of the Public", International Visual Sociology Association
http://www.visualsociology.org/conference.html

3-6 September, Glasgow, Scotland
Using Qualitative Research: The Relevance and Applicability of "Micro" Methods, ESA RN Qualitative Methods
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/qual.htm, CfP http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/CfP_ESA-QM_2007.pdf (PDF, 32 KB)

13-14 September, University of Manchester, UK
Conference "The Legacy of the Chicago School"
http://web.mac.com/theorists/iWeb/Social%20Theorists/Chicago%20School%20Conference.html

See http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-e.htm (English) and http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-d.htm (German) for additional Conference Announcements.

D) LINKS

Phenomenology Online
http://www.phenomenologyonline.com/

Husserl, Edmund (1960). Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to
Phenomenology (Transl. Dorion Cairns). The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff
Publishers
http://ia311515.us.archive.org/1/items/cartesianmeditat017661mbp/cartesianmeditat017661mbp.pdf

Rapid Assessment
http://www.rapidassessment.net

E) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

February SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-02-07.htm

DOAJ Membership Program launched
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=membership

Conferences

11-14 June, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
28th IATUL Annual Conference "Global Access to Science – Scientific Publishing for the Future"
http://www.lib.kth.se/iatul2007/

Texts

Shepherd, Jessica: Open season for researchers. Pressure is growing for academic publishers to put the fruits of publicly funded labour on the web. The Guardian, Tuesday February 13, 2007
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2011324,00.html

Journals/Newsletters

Directory of Open Access Journals:
http://www.doaj.org/

Artspraxis
http://education.nyu.edu/music/artspraxis

Education Review
http://edrev.asu.edu/

First Monday, 12(2)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_2/

Intersticios. Revista sociológica de pensamiento crítico, new
http://www.intersticios.es/

Medical Sociology online, CfP
http://www.medicalsociologyonline.org/

Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence, 3(2)
http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisustv03n02.html

Survey Research, new
http://w4.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/

Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
http://www.vectorsjournal.org/

Last update: 30.07.2007

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