Friday, December 11, 2009

SHSS Journal, The Qualitative Report, will host Inaugural Conference to Celebrate 20 years

The Qualitative Report, an online journal dedicated to qualitative research and housed in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) will celebrate its 20th year by hosting the TQR Inaugural Conference on Jan. 8, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on NSU’s main campus. The conference theme is “Academic and Commercial Research: State of the Art.” The plenary speakers are Laurie Charles, Ph.D. whose presentation is entitled, “My Autoethnographic Life,” and Ronald Chenail, Ph.D., who will address “Academic and Commercial Qualitative Research: The Best of Both Worlds.” Chenail is a professor in the Department of Family Therapy.

The conference will include workshops, paper presentations, roundtables, paper consultations, and a reception. Early registration for the conference is $40 ($50 after Dec. 21) and $20 with an NSU ID ($25 after Dec. 21). For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/TQR2010/index.html.

Chenail also teaches in the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research in the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies (DMS) in SHSS. The Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research consists of eight three-credit hour online courses (24 credit hours) designed to prepare academics, professional research consultants, and graduate students to understand a variety of qualitative research approaches and to conduct qualitative research studies. For more information about the program, contact Ronald Chenail at ron@nova.edu or 954-262-5389.

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