FQS-Newsletter October 2004

Dear All,

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

Articles, belonging to FQS 5(3)
Articles, published in October 2004
From our readers
Grants
Conferences
Open Access News

Wishing you a nice weekend!

Katja Mruck

A) ARTICLES, BELONGING TO FQS 5(3)

"I am Not Opposed to Quantification or Formalization or Modeling, But Do Not Want to Pursue Quantitative Methods That Are Not Commensurate With the Research Phenomena Addressed"—Aaron Cicourel in Conversation With Andreas Witzel and Guenter Mey
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-41-e.htm

Cesar A. Cisneros-Puebla, Robert Faux & Guenter Mey: Qualitative Researchers—Stories Told, Storied Shared: The Storied Nature of Qualitative Research. An Introduction to the Special Issue: FQS Interviews I (now available in Spanish too)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-37-s.htm

B) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER 2004

Robert Anthony (Canada): Consistency of Ethics Review
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-5-e.htm

Linda Coupal (Canada): Practitioner-Research and the Regulation of Research Ethics: The Challenge of Individual, Organizational, and Social Interests
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-6-e.htm

Thorsten Junge (Germany): Review Note, Petra Fosen-Schlichtinger (2002). Ueber die gesellschaftspolitische Bedeutung von Praenataldiagnostik und kuenstlicher Befruchtung als Teile moderner Reproduktionstechnologien unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung familiensoziologischer Aspekte, ihrer medizinischen Dimension und der Bedeutung des Themas Behinderung als soziales Phaenomen [The Social and Political Importance of Prenatal Diagnoses and in vitro Fertilization—Their Sociological Aspects for Families, Their Medical Importance and the Meaning of Disabilities as a Social Phenomenon]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-7-e.htm

Iain Lang (UK): Review Note, Valerie J. Janesick (2004). "Stretching" Exercises for Qualitative Researchers
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-1-e.htm

Mary H. Maguire (Canada): What if You Talked to Me? I Could Be Interesting! Ethical Research Considerations in Engaging with Bilingual / Multilingual Child Participants in Human Inquiry
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-4-e.htm

Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Ethics as Social Practice: Introducing the Debate on Qualitative Research and Ethics
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-9-e.htm

Werner Schneider (Germany): Discourse "Makes" Reality—A Discourse Analysis About Translating Medical Briefings. Review Essay: Bernd Meyer (2004). Dolmetschen im medizinischen Aufklaerungsgespraech. Eine diskursanalytische Untersuchung zur Wissensvermittlung im mehrsprachigen Krankenhaus [Translating Briefings for Informed Consent. A Discourse Analysis About Knowledge Transfer in the Multilingual Hospital]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-3-e.htm

Maaja Vadi (Estonia): Who and in What Ways Can Collaborate in Organizational Research? Review Essay: Niclas Adler, A. B. (Rami) Shani & Alexander Styhre (Eds.) (2004). Collaborative Research in Organizations. Foundations for Learning, Change, and Theoretical Development
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-2-e.htm

C) FROM OUR READERS

For a question how to "critically evaluate quantitative and qualitative research methods" and some first responses see:

D) GRANTS

Request for Research Proposals on Advanced German and European Studies

The Freie Universitaet Berlin and GSA Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies offers up to one-year of research support at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. It is open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians working on the period since the mid-19th century. The program accepts applications from U.S. and Canadian nationals or permanent residents. Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be full-time graduate students who have completed all coursework required for the Ph.D. and must have achieved ABD (all but dissertation) status by the time the proposed research stay in Berlin begins. Also eligible are U.S. and Canadian Ph.D.s who have received their doctorates within the past two calendar years. Awards provide between ten and twelve months of research.

Deadline: December 1, 2004

For complete information and an application, please go to our website at
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/ or send an e-mail to bprogram@zedat.fu-berlin.de

SSRC Eurasia Program: 2005 Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships Competition

The Eurasia Program of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is currently offering a number of fellowships at both the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels for the 2005-2006 academic year for research, writing, training and curriculum development on or related to any of the New States of Eurasia, the Soviet Union, and/or the Russian Empire. These fellowships are funded by the U.S. Department of State under the Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII). New online applications and supporting materials are now available on the SSRC website at http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/eurasia/. The electronic application submission deadline is November 9, 2004 at 9:00 p.m.

E) CONFERENCES

On November 19 a one-day workshop on "Digital Records and Representations of Human Activities" is organized in Nottingham, UK, by the SRC National Centre for e-Social Science
http://www.mrl.nott.ac.uk/~axc/eSocial_Science_Workshop.htm

December 9-11 the Technical University of Berlin organizes a conference on "Video-Analysis: Methodology and Methods. State of the Art and Prospects of Interpretative Audiovisual Data Analysis in Sociology"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/Videotagung.pdf (PDF file, 33 KB)

February 17-19 the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada organizes the 6th Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference
http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/AQM2005/

May 5-7 the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA organizes the 1st International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
http://www.QI2005.org/

June 22-24 the 3rd Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing—"Teaching Writing On Line and Face to Face"—takes place in Athens, Greece
http://eataw2005.hau.gr

June 22-24 in Manchester, UK, the "First International Conference on e-Social Science" will be organized by the SRC National Centre for e-Social Science
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference_05.htm

July 6-9 the 37th World Congress "Frontiers of Sociology" will take place, organized by the Institute of Sociology in Stockholm, Sweden
http://www.scasss.uu.se/IIS2005/

See http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-e.htm for additional Conference Announcements.

F) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

The German government has awarded Euro 6.1m to STM publisher FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Society (MPS) to develop a platform for web-based collaborative scientific work and self-publishing. [...]
http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1158510

SAGE Publications goes ROMEO Green "... This improved policy comes into effect immediately and applies to all journals where SAGE is responsible for author copyright policy. It allows authors to self-archive their own copy pre-print (i.e. submitted), and their own copy post-print (i.e. accepted for publication)."
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0410/msg00046.html

National Open Access Agreement for Norway: "Norway has made a nationwide commitment to Open Access for the biomedical research it funds. All universities, polytechnics research institutes and hospitals in Norway became BioMed Central members on 1 October 2004."
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=5664
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/pr-releases?pr=20041018

The October SPARC Open Access Newsletter is available online at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/10-02-04.htm.

The first issue of PLoS Medicine, the 2nd open-access jounal of the Public Library of Science (http://www.plos.org/), has been published in October.
http://www.plosmedicine.org/

New Texts

"Ten Years After", Richard Poynder, in Information Today, 21(9), Oktober 2004
http://www.infotoday.com/it/oct04/poynder.shtml

"Future of the NIH Open Access Policy", Barbara Quint, in Information Today, 21(9), October 2004
http://www.infotoday.com/it/oct04/quint.shtml

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