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QRSI Foundation Courses will help you enrich your #qualitative process

At our 24th annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive, the 7 new courses we featured in our message last week combine with 11 foundation courses to offer material that will help you enrich your qualitative process through an understanding of the landscape and value of qualitative research and integrating strategic decision-making.

The content of our foundation courses lives at the meeting point of methodological principles and practice. 7 of these courses offer perspectives and strategies to integrate through the life of your qualitative and mixed methods projects. 4 of the courses focus directly on specific key phases of qualitative projects.

Our 2027 QRSI Foundation Courses:

Qualitative Process Options
· Qualitative Research Essentials: Understanding the Landscape, Lifecycle, and Value of a Qualitative Research Project, with Sarah Tracy, July 26-27
· Introduction to Grounded Theory: A Constructivist Approach, with Elaine Keane, July 26-27
· Qualitative Methods in Rapid Turn-Around Projects: Strategic Decision-Making for Rigor and Feasibility, with Alison Hamilton, July 26-27
· Enriching Implementation Research with Deeper Forms of Qualitative Inquiry, with Alison Hamilton, July 29-30
· Integrating AI into Qualitative Research Appropriately, with Christina Silver, August 2-3
· Qualitative Survey Data: Tapping into the Full Potential of Open-Ended Responses, with Cheryl Poth, July 28

Project Planning and Decision Making
· Writing Effective Qualitative Research Proposals, with Sharron Docherty, July 28

In the Field
· Qualitative Data Generation: Conducting Interviews, Focus Groups, and Field Observations, with Elaine Keane, July 29-30

Analyzing
· Reflexive Thematic Analysis: Identifying, Analyzing, and Interpreting Patterns of Meaning, with Karen Campbell, August 6
· Coding and Analyzing Qualitative Data, with Paul Mihas and Karen Campbell, August 4-5

Writing
· Writing for Impact: Strategies to Successfully Craft and Publish Qualitative Research, with Sarah Tracy, July 29-30

Qualitative Research Summer Intensive
July 26-30 and August 2-6, 2027
· Co-hosted by ResearchTalk in partnership with UNC's Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
· Held exclusively online via Zoom
· Visit researchtalk.com/QRSI2027for details and a registration link.

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Bring different lenses to your #qualitative inquiry projects with what you learn at our Spring Qualitative Inquiry Seminars

Our Spring Qualitative Inquiry Seminars help you apply different lenses to your qualitative inquiry projects.
• How can Design Thinking tools offer ways to expand how I work with qualitative data?
~~Design Thinking in Qualitative Research: Practical
Applications for Data Collection, Data Analysis, and
Analytic Products, with Liz Chen, May 10-11
• How will shifting my goals for my qualitative project to “resonance” affect my work and project products?
~~Make Your Research RESONATE: Crafting
Qualitative Research That Explains, Engages, and
Matters, with Sarah Tracy, May 17-18
• How can theoretical concepts serve as tools for noticing patterns, tensions, and absences in data?
~~Using Theory as an Analytic Tool to Add Depth and
Richness to Qualitative Inquiry, with Mark Vagle,
June 7-8
• When you shift focus to creating and enhancing policy, how does that shift affect our decision-making through the life of our qualitative projects?
~~From Problems to Policy: Using Qualitative Data to
Uncover Local Solutions, with Rashawn Ray,
June 10-11

Join us to explore these options together.

Spring 2027 Qualitative Inquiry Seminars
Details and registration link: researchtalk.com/sqis2027

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Practical approaches to help you reconceive the act of “writing”

Many of the ways we think of writing introduce frustration into the writing process and our attitudes toward writing.

Reconceiving of how we define and envision writing can eliminate these frustrations.
· Writing can be accomplished in short bursts instead of longer periods of time at your computer.
· The act of writing can be documenting and diagramming important connections you find in your data and does not have to result in fluid, coherent paragraphs each time you are at your keyboard.
· Working and re-working thoughts that become written material should happen in engaging ways. Begin writing as a routine practice as soon as the project begins. Write, and re-write, throughout a project rather than waiting for a ‘write-up period’ to begin.

At our #Qualitative Writing Camp, ResearchTalk’s mentor team will help you work through strategies to create titles, compose abstracts, and build strong methods, results, and discussion sections. All of these pieces are critical parts of a successful qualitative report or publication. Our team covers each of them housed within a conversation about you as writer defining a writing process that is productive, accessible, and comfortable.

Bring your work and join us for 3.5 days dedicated to carving a path that redefines writing as something you look forward to and execute confidently.

Qualitative Writing Camp – December 1-4, 2026, held online via Zoom
Details and registration link: researchtalk.com/QWC2026

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New pathways to new discoveries – QRSI 2027 introduces a diverse range of strategies for every phase of your #qualitative work

At our 24th annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive, we again introduce a set of courses that present new pathways to new discoveries:

Carolyn Ellis, Arthur Bochner, Kristin Black, and Ray Maietta emphasize prioritizing "the story” through all phases of our qualitative projects. Whether we are gathering stories of lived experience, analyzing our data, or constructing presentations, a direct focus on the ways our participants’ daily lives unfold helps us better understand our questions of interest.
~~Writing Lives and Telling Stories: Composing Autoethnographic and Narrative Accounts of Lived Experience, July 26-27 with Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner
~~Qualitative Storying: Engaging Participants’ Stories to Shape Our Work, August 4-5 with Ray Maietta and Kristin Black

Stephanie Anne Shelton and Kristin Black present ways to conduct research with people, not on or for them, and make our work accessible, culturally, responsive, and meaningful.
~~Conducting Research with People, Not on or for Them: Centering Agency in Qualitative Interviews and Focus Groups, August 6 with Stephanie Anne Shelton
~~Community-Centered Dissemination: Making Qualitative Work Accessible, Culturally Responsive, and Meaningful, July 28 with Kristin Black

Mark Vagle introduces way to rethink how we think about our work as we integrate AI into our project workflow. Robert Kozinets considers these same issues for qualitative researchers who aim to understand lived experience in digital environments more deeply.
~~AI as Thought Tool to Navigate the Complexities of Qualitative Inquiry, July 29-30 with Mark Vagle
~~Netnography: Qualitative Digital Inquiry for the Age of AI, August 4-5 with Robert Kozinets

Tony Adams focuses on strategies to not limit ourselves to just one type of qualitative data by fluidly integrating multiple qualitative methods as a way to enhance and build our projects.
~~Strategies for Integrating Multiple Qualitative Methods to Build and Enhance Your Projects, August 6 with Tony Adams

Whether you’re interested in these new opportunities for learning or any of our 11 foundation courses that are also on the QRSI agenda, we hope to meet and learn with you next summer!

Qualitative Research Summer Intensive
July 26-30 and August 2-6, 2027
· Co-hosted by ResearchTalk in partnership with UNC's Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
· Held exclusively online via Zoom
· Visit researchtalk.com/QRSI2027for details and a registration link.

Please contact info@researchtalk.com with any questions.

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Spring 2027 Qualitative Inquiry Seminars open for registration + Final Fall Qualitative Inquiry Seminar

Our Spring 2027 #Qualitative Inquiry Seminars are now open for registration.
Here is the course schedule:
· Design Thinking in Qualitative Research: Practical Applications for Data Collection, Data Analysis, and Analytic Products, with Liz Chen, May 10-11
· Make Your Research RESONATE: Crafting Qualitative Research That Explains, Engages, and Matters, with Sarah Tracy, May 17-18
· NEW Using Theory as an Analytic Tool to Add Depth and Richness to Qualitative Inquiry, with Mark Vagle, June 7-8
· NEW From Problems to Policy: Using Qualitative Data to Uncover Local Solutions, with Rashawn Ray, June 10-11

Our Fall Qualitative Inquiry Seminars schedule has 1 remaining course:
· Enacting Reflexive Thematic Analysis Using Software and AI Tools, with Christina Silver, November 5-6
o Understand the implications of employing Generative AI and qualitative software for reflexive practice and critical engagement with qualitative materials.

Spring 2027 Qualitative Inquiry Seminars
Details and registration link: researchtalk.com/sqis2027

Fall 2026 Qualitative Inquiry Seminars
Details and registration link: researchtalk.com/fqis2026

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