The vision of the Qualitative Research Group (QRG) is to connect qualitative research findings to real world outcomes both locally and internationally, working towards positive change in the community and a better understanding of the world around us. The QRG provides assistance to researchers engaged in qualitative research, including mixed methods, in a wide range of interdisciplinary sites. It supports professional training opportunities as well as collegial partnerships between students and Faculty, community and government.

This listserv was started in the early spring of 2008 and now has 100+ participants working in medicine (community health sciences, dentistry, pediatrics, neurosurgery), nursing, medical rehabilitation, social work, sociology, anthropology, education, disability studies, human ecology (nutrition, family social sciences), First Nations universities, women’s and gender studies, engineering, and the Dafoe library.

The monthly newsletters are sent out on the first of each month and announce national and international conferences, noon-hour discussions on methodology, research findings, journals and books, and other initiatives of interest. Your contributions to the listserv are welcome – please send these two or more working days prior to the last day of any month for compilation. This is an important opportunity for qualitative researchers to come together and build resources.

Pass it on!

Kerstin Stieber Roger, Director