Selected qual research resources

From my presentation yesterday to UM's Dept of Government and Politics Working Group on Qualitative and Mixed Methodologies:

Qualitative Research Groups at the University of Maryland:

MITH Dialogues (most Tuesdays, 12:30-1:45 in the McKeldin basement): Discussion, presentation, and intellectual exchange on a range of projects relating to the MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) central mission – much of which may be useful to qualitative social science www.mith2.umd.edu/programs

Qualitative Research Interest Group (meets several times each semester): a working group of faculty and graduate students who use qualitative methods in their work www.crge.umd.edu/research/qualitativerig.htm

Online Qualitative Research Journals:

Forum: Qualitative Social Research: peer-reviewed multilingual online journal for qualitative research www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm

First Monday: peer-reviewed journal on and about, the Internet www.firstmonday.dk

Qualitative Research Listservs:

CONTENT: news and discussion about content analysis www.aime.ua.edu/archives/content.html

Humanist Discussion Group: “electronic seminar” on humanities computing and the digital humanities, addresses intellectual, scholarly, pedagogical, and social issues – much of which may be useful to qualitative social science www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist

QUALRS-L: Qualitative Research for the Human Sciences www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/qualrs-l.html

SOCNET: Official listserv of the International Network for Social Network Analysis www.insna.org/INSNA/socnet.html

An especially useful website:

Online QDA: training materials for Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) methods and selected Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS) software http://onlineqda.hud.ac.uk