UGA Qualitative Research Program

We hope you join us later today for Dr. Anani Vasquez's talk on Writing Qualitatively!

These conversations will explore qualitative writing as a scholarly, creative, and methodological practice and offer opportunities for engagement with nationally recognized scholars in the field. The series is free and open to all. Registration is available via the QR codes on the flyer or at the links below. For additional information, please contact Dr. Maureen Flint at [email protected].

Dr. Ananí Vasquez, Friday June 12th 1:00PM – 2:00PM EDT - https://bit.ly/UGAQL-SU2602

We hope to see you tomorrow for Dr.
Esther Ohito's talk!

These conversations will explore qualitative writing as a scholarly, creative, and methodological practice and offer opportunities for engagement with nationally recognized scholars in the field. The series is free and open to all. Registration is available via the QR codes on the flyer or at the links below. For additional information, please contact Dr. Maureen Flint at [email protected].
Dr. Esther Ohito, Tuesday June 9th 10:00AM – 11:00AM EDT - https://bit.ly/UGAQL-SU2601

Join the UGA Qual Lab this June for Writing Qualitatively, a special summer speaker series offered in conjunction with QUAL 8750e: Qualitative Writing. Dr. Esther Ohito (Rutgers University) will present on Tuesday, June 9, from 10:00–11:00 a.m. EDT, followed by Dr. Ananí Vásquez (Arizona State University) on Friday, June 12, from 1:00–2:00 p.m. EDT. These conversations will explore qualitative writing as a scholarly, creative, and methodological practice and offer opportunities for engagement with nationally recognized scholars in the field. The series is free and open to all. Registration is available via the QR codes on the flyer or at the links below. For additional information, please contact Dr. Maureen Flint at [email protected].
Dr. Esther Ohito, Tuesday June 9th 10:00AM – 11:00AM EDT - https://bit.ly/UGAQL-SU2601
Dr. Ananí Vasquez, Friday June 12th 1:00PM – 2:00PM EDT - https://bit.ly/UGAQL-SU2602

This check out a new article by faculty Dr. Giovanni Dazzo and co-authors, published in Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies.

Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) has often been characterized as a meaningful way of including young people in research about and for them. Much has been written about the need to develop trusting relationships between adult and youth researchers in this process. These types of research relationships take time to develop authentically and we see a need for that relationship-building time to be built into research designs and timelines. At the same time, in our experience working with the Youth Research Council in Northern Virginia, USA, we have seen youth researchers express desires to use “rapid” research methods, such as hallway interviews, text messaging, speak-back surveys, and video testimonials to gather data from peers. The purpose of this article is to explore these tensions, to uncover the privilege of what have been called slow ontologies, and to offer recommendations for other youth-led research teams.

https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086231224757

Why does teaching educational research matter? This we're highlighting an article by student Hana Ameli along with faculty Dr. Kathy Roulston, asking just this question.

Published in the inagural issue of Teaching Educational Research Methods, in this paper, we—two non-native scholars working in the United States—share how our different personal, educational, and professional journeys led us to care deeply about research methods and their teaching. Drawing on biographical experiences from Iran and Australia, we describe how learning and teaching qualitative research reshaped the way we understand rigor, evidence, and human experience. Through our stories as a doctoral student and a long-time methods instructor, we show that research quality depends not only on technical skill, but on careful alignment between theory, methodology, and methods, as well as on ethical and philosophical reflection. We argue that teaching research methodologies is not simply about providing tools, but about cultivating thoughtful, responsible researchers who can engage with complexity, uncertainty, and the lived realities of others.

Don't forget to register for a talk being given tomorrow by faculty Dr. Giovanni Dazzo. Dr. Dazzo will present “Reclaiming Familiar and Familial Knowing through Restorative Justice and Decolonial Logics” on Zoom on Thursday, April 23rd, 12:00-1:00pm Eastern / 11:00am-12:00pm Central. Registration is FREE but is REQUIRED: https://tinyurl.com/DazzoQualTalk

The “Critical Qualitative Conversations Virtual Speaker Series” is co-sponsored by the Qualitative Research Programs at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( ), The University of Alabama ( ), and Baylor University ( )

Have you ever wondered how to incorporate qualitative research into your teaching? This we're highlighting an exemplar from Affiliate faculty Dr. Tatiane Russo-Tait, published in CourseSource, where composite narratives developed from research data are used as a teaching tool.

This lesson uses composite narratives (vignettes designed from research data) to invite STEM instructors to begin reflecting on their conceptions of equity and how these conceptions may inform their practices in ways that can support or inadvertently hinder student success. Composite narratives are stories that describe collective perspectives and experiences of research participants categorized under specific themes or profiles in qualitative research studies. They provide an account of research findings in accessible and relatable ways that resonate with readers and support reflection and learning. This lesson uses three post hoc composite narratives developed from the results of a study exploring science faculty conceptions of equity and their relationship to teaching practices. This lesson describes a 2.5-hour professional development opportunity to engage STEM instructors in important self-reflection and discussion about a variety of topics (e.g., deficit-thinking, color-evasive ideology, exclusionary practices, inclusive teaching, critical pedagogy, critical consciousness). The lesson’s main goal is to provide a loose framework to facilitate the co-construction of the meaning of equity for participants, and to enable generative conversations that might empower faculty to continue their journey towards developing a critical consciousness and ultimately advancing equitable practices in STEM education

https://doi.org/10.24918/cs.2025.11

Are you interested in career pathways beyond academia in qualitative research? The AERA Qualitative Research Special Interest Group Graduate Student Committee is hosting a speaker event with alum Nuria Jaumot-Pascual, Ph.D.
When: April 27th 2PM Eastern/1PM Central

Dr. Jaumot-Pascual is a Research Scientist at TERC. She researches the experiences in STEM education and careers of populations that live at the intersection of interlocking marginalities, with an emphasis on gender/sexual identity and race/ethnicity. She specializes in qualitative, literature synthesis, and visual inquiry methods. Her talk will share and discuss alternative career paths after completing a Ph.D. See flyer for more information

This past week, scholars from across the United States gathered to share research and engage in scholarly conversations about the future of Educational Research. Our own Dr. Kathy Roulston, recipient of the 2025 Egon Guba Award for Outstanding Contributions to Qualitative Research, delivered the 2026 Egon Guba Lecture during the Qualitative Research Special Interest Group business meeting. Congratulations, Kathy! We are appreciative of your contributions to the field, and honored to call you a colleague!

Check out a new call for papers for the International Journal Qualitative Studies in Education!

Over the last two decades, we have seen an emergence of thinkers considering the concept of waste (e.g. Bauman, 2003; Scanlan, 2025; Thill, 2015; Viney, 2015). Inevitably, when speaking of waste, the concept of use also emerges, which is addressed in great depth by Ahmed (2019). These thinkers offer many definitions of waste and use; Viney, for instance, describes waste as that which is out of time and out of place; Bauman a redundancy; Thill an “expression of expended, transmuted, or suspended desire… the ur-object” (p. 8). For Ahmed, on the other hand, use(ful) is highly contextual, and may apply to anything practical, functional, enjoyable or present. The use/waste dyad invites questions of power (who or what conditions determine what is useful or wasted?), temporality/historicity (When are things useful or wasteful?), relationality (How do objects or people define their position of use/waste?), affective vicissitudes (How might some waste, e.g. ancient ruins, make us feel compared to other kinds of waste, e.g. human excrement), space (Where does waste reside and what spaces are wasted?), environmental ethics (What can be done with all of our waste?), among others. While waste is often a topic of conversation when speaking about material things, it becomes clear that waste is as much a social concern as it is a material one, with implications for ideologies, subjectivity, and (ethical) behavior.

See images for more information, abstracts due April 30th!