#qualitative — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #qualitative, aggregated by home.social.
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Follow-up blog post! Now we've described research fatigue and the problems it can cause, how can you design research that avoids it?
https://www.quirkos.com/blog/post/managing-research-fatigue/
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Our latest blog post covers Research Fatigue in qualitative research
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The inability of large numbers of otherwise reasonably decent people to relinquish #X is yet another demonstration of the triumph of #quantitative standards over #qualitative considerations in #contemporarysociety.
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Department of #Sociology, University of #Oxford are looking for two #Postdoc Research Fellows (one quant, one qual), for a full-time, fixed-term position for up to four years! #job #academia #quantitative #qualitative #research
Deadline: 31 July 2026
https://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdoctoral-research-fellow-2-positions
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Our first textbook is finally on sale! Place orders for physical or digital editions here:
https://www.quirkos.com/learn-qualitative/qualitative-textbook.html?ref=mastodon
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@wsj/business-b1985f4jz/-/a-T6_YAnIFSTSuzZdNlac-EA%3Aa%3A248213600-%2F0
“Instead of paying humans to join focus groups and complete surveys, #Auru uses thousands of #AI agents, or bots, to simulate human responses. It feeds #demographic and psychographic information into its models to create human profiles that match clients’ needs, and the results those bots spit out are being used for product #development, #pricing, identifying new customers and political #polling.”
Researchers have warned about the inaccuracies of treating #LLMs as human proxies (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11297-5), but I wouldn’t be surprised #languageModels beat #qualitative interpretation of non-representative focus groups.
#marketing #psychometrics #statistics #quantMethods #philSci #metascience #business
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First copies of our qualitative research textbook have arrived! Will be available soon...
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11 journal articles from 2025 that show the breadth and depth of qualitative research. Our annual roundup of qualitative research projects that used Quirkos is here!
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Excited to be sponsoring the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) annual conference this week!
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Just finished up with all the transcription of Focus Group Discussions and Key Informant Interviews. Though cumbersome process but a real treat for learning
#Ideation #FGDs #KII #Qualitative #Research -
If you write an autoethnogaphy with someone else, that's "Collaborative Autoethnography".
Here's a slide show I prepared based on the book by Chang, Ngunjiri, and Hernandez (2013). This will introduce you to a range of models for completing an autoethnography with collaborators.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hv7JNoweMu2YNGRiL9bzjkNCoo8a8OstM9DEyrSePmY/edit?usp=sharing
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Are you interested in autoethnography? Here is a slide show I made to introduce others to autoethnography and prepare them to begin working on a collaborative research project. It is an adaption of Heewon Chang's "Autoethnography as Method" (2008).
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SeJnLYJUHtsRqioLCN2damSuztIx6AwMdfRiUo1Eo3w/edit?usp=sharing
Source book: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315433370/autoethnography-method-heewon-chang
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Awesome! Our new paper in #DHQ has been published!
It discusses three measures of #keyness (or #distinctiveness) when applied to #subgenres of the #French #novel.
The twist is that we perform a #qualitative #evaluation of the measures by relating each list of keywords to a set of characteristics of each subgenre built from reading scholarly publications on the subgenres.
Bottom line: choosing a measure makes a huge difference!
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I'm co-facilitating an amazing and fun workshop in Edinburgh on doing qualitative analysis differently, Nov 13-14th. Sign up or get in touch if you want more info!
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Yup, GenAI is really bad at qualitative analysis:
"LLM chatbots consistently failed to code the data efficiently, accurately, reliably and comprehensively, or identify meaningful themes. ChatGPT, and the Qual-AI products built on it, are simply not designed nor fine-tuned to perform even the lower-order analytical tasks of searching and coding text"
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There are still spaces left in our free online QualCoder workshop next Thursday. As in free software, free data, free training. Open to anyone, no #virginiatech affiliation required. #qualitative #qdas Register at https://calendar.lib.vt.edu/event/15122195
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Amazing insight into 1700 conversations between strangers for a research project
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Recent updates to Quirkos Web have improved performance in larger projects, and added speaker identification to our automated transcription service!
https://www.quirkos.com/blog/post/updates-to-quirkos-web-and-transcribe-september-2025/
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'Generative AI and Broken Futures' in Qualitative Inquiry details an #AI #research that takes #qualitative fieldwork and generates broken visions of futures which participants then 'fix' with their realistic, ground-truth-led understandings of the realities of their industry.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10778004251358070
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Running a very weird and wonderful workshop in Edinburgh this November: on creative and unusual ways to approach qualitative analysis, complete with wine tasting, and art appreciation!
Tickets now open, but places limited!
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Checked if updates were needed on my article from 18 months ago on why 'AI' tools for qualitative analysis are a terrible idea, and nope, all the points still apply!
https://www.quirkos.com/blog/post/outsourcing-decision-making-ai-ethics-and-qualitative-research/
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Webinar: "Qualitative Open #Research: Meaningful Exchange and Mutual Learning."
Michelle Jamieson and Nicki Lisa Coole will present on what #qualitative open research means and how #positionality statements, a technique used by many qualitative researchers, can help opening up research processes independent of research methodologies.
Date: 16 October 2025
Time: 10-12 am (Amsterdam Time)
Follow this link to register: https://reproducibilitynetwork.nl/event/qualitative-open-research-meaningful-exchange-and-mutual-learning/ -
#Preregistration in #qualitative #research is still less common than in academic fields applying quantitative methods. However, it has benefits for the entire academic community. One publication that covers the topic in detail is Tamarinde L. Haven & Dr. Leonie Van Grootel (2019). Preregistering qualitative
research, Accountability in Research, 26:3, 229-244, DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2019.1580147 -
On 26 September at 14 hrs, we* are co-organizing the #workshop: "Positionality statements: a tool to open Your research".
A lot of attention within the #OpenScience debate has been given to sharing research materials. This workshop focuses on opening up and sharing the decisions and assumptions underlying the research process of why, what and how studies are conducted. The event is aimed at both #qualitative and #quantitative researchers.
*Tamarinde Haven and Bogdana Huma
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Once again experimenting with open source #CAQDAS for #qualitative analyses. Some always surface, but then disappear for lack of support.
Anyone have any more to add to this list? So far:
https://taguette.org - Simple but very effective, way to get students to understand coding
https://github.com/ccbogel/QualCoder/ - looks more robust, experimenting
https://requal.app - promising, based on R -
Can you have queer theory, and a set qualitative methodology?
https://www.quirkos.com/blog/post/queer-theory-and-qualitative-methods-an-unlikely-marriage/
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Save-the-Date for our #webinar "Qualitative #OpenResearch: Meaningful Exchange and Mutual Learning. During this event, we will hear from two speakers about obstacles and opportunities for qualitative open research.
The event is organized in collaboration with the Dutch-Belgian Context Network for #qualitative methodology.
We will share the registration link shortly via our newsletter as well as on our social media.
Date: 16 October 2025
Time: 10-12 am (Amsterdam Time)