Three articles on Qualitative Inquiry by Kenneth Gergen and Friends

Kenneth Gergen is disseminating three papers on aspects of qualitative research that he has written, one as sole author and two as co-author. He writes: I humbly attach three papers that I hope could be useful in supporting our qualitative endeavours. The first is the recent American Psychologist article by Ruthellen Jossleson, Mark Freeman and myself on the rich potentials […]

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QI 2012 Here I come!

I am delighted to be returning to the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in Champaign-Urbana this year, where I shall be participating in a panel reflecting on the process of ‘becoming’ a scholar. The idea for the panel came from a special issue of the Emotion, Space and Society journal being edited by the panel chair (Sophie Tamas), and all the contributions […]

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BSA Auto/Biography Study Group Conference

The Auto/Biography Study Group is part of the professional association of sociologists, the British Sociological Association (BSA). The aim of the Study Group is to bring together people interested in looking analytically at all forms of biography and autobiography, the relationship between different ‘genres’ of representing lives, and the intertextuality of biography and autobiography, texts and lives. In addition to  […]

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QI Revisited

To see the paper I gave at QI 2010, click here.   It can be a mistake to go back…Last year I attended the Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI 2009) at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and was refreshed, energised and motivated by the genuine inclusivity of the conference and the engagement with issues of social justice […]

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