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Lyn Richards - home page - Southern winter edition
My distance-and-closeness theme for
winter is wattle blossom - wattles are Australia's winter flower. The
model here is an
Acacia Vestita pictured on midwinter
morning - with attendant bee.
Book news
The process of preparing for a second edition of Handling Qualitative Data is underway. I've been thrilled by responses and by how widely it's used in teaching - in six continents. Please if you have been using the book, let me know what you'd like to have changed (and also what's not to be changed!)
One goal is to widen the supporting website to include working papers offering case studies of qualitative work with the sorts of details on 'methods-in-practice' not usually available in publications.
Please contribute! Go to my call for online Methods in Practice reports.
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The second edition of Readme First written with Jan Morse, is now out in Japanese translation. Our thanks for her very careful work in the translation to Professor Nami Kobayashi, from School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University. The Japanese translation of Handling Qualitative Data is due shortly. |
Qualitative Interest Group @ RMIT
The Qualitative Interest Group in Melbourne is one result of my appointment as Adjunct Professor of RMIT University and is hosted by the School of Accounting and Law, a location indicative of the spread of qualitative methods. The meetings are held at lunchtime (lunch provided) on the first Tuesday of every month. Topics are chosen by the group, and broadly range across issues most researchers meet.
We are starting next month a series of hour-long Project Workshops, preceding the main group discussion,(starting at 11.00am.)
If you wish to attend these meetings, please email me.
Next meeting Tuesday, September 2nd, (gathering for lunch from 12.00; 12.30 - 2pm discussion)
Topic: Theory and Theorizing in Qualitative Research
One result of the QIG meetings has been a request that I provide a guide to online resources for novice researchers. Each month, this guide is updated with online resources for our next topic.
Software materials
Whilst I am no longer conducting software workshops, the materials I have provided to help users with NVivo are freely available. My ten teach-yourself NVivo 7 tutorials are on the Sage website. Or directly download (112 pages) here. These tutorials will soon be adapted to cover the new functions of NVivo 8.
And if you've had an overview of NVivo and need to get going in your own project, my "Up and Running" step by step Post-Workshop Handbook (24 pages) can be directly downloaded here. For a research consultant or a software workshop, go to the Support pages on QSR's website and find one of the skilled trainers around the world, most of them also researchers. As the software spread, so did the network of colleagues helping researchers to use it well. More.
and what's going on with the Richardses?
Tom's "retirement" is as a research astronomer. Personal details, cv etc. for me are here...
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Tom's obsy, early morning
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