Qualitative Research Interest Group
Co-Sponsored by the Maryland Population Research Center
CRGE's Qualitative Research Interest Group (QRIG) is a working group of faculty and graduate students who use qualitative methods in their work. Central to the work of this group is a focus on intersectional dimensions of difference and their relation to social justice and raising the profile of qualitative methodologies at the University of Maryland as a core component of a research design.
- Dr. Bonnie Thornton Dill, QRIG Co-Director, Department of Women's Studies
- Dr. Annette Lareau, QRIG Co-Director, Department of Sociology
- Dr. Kevin Roy, Department of Family Studies
- Dr. John Caughey, Department of American Studies
Building the Qualitative Community: Faculty Seed Grants for Developing Qualitative Work:
The Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity and the Maryland Population Center are pleased to announce the introduction of a seed grant program for faculty at University of Maryland engaged in qualitative research methods of participant-observation and indepth interviews.
Assistant Professors have particularly high priority in the funding program but all faculty are eligible. The grant application must be for a study that primarily uses research methods of participant-observation and/or in-depth interviewing (e.g., participantobservation of a specific group, two-hour interviews, or life histories). A study that is designed primarily as an analysis of historical documents, regrettably, is not included in the guidelines for this program.
The grant may be used to begin new data collection or to write up the results of research conducted. Funds may be used for direct research costs, travel, or salary connected to the study. For example, funds for transcribing tapes, research equipment, research training, or a summer salary supplement would all be considered. Institutional review board approval for the study is a condition of the release of the funds.
2008 Grants
Winners:
Congratulations to Professor Joseph Richardson, Assistant Professor of African American Studies who was awarded a QRIG Seed Grant for his project: “An Exploratory Study of the Prison to College Pipeline Program: The Perceived Barriers to Juvenile Re-Entry.”
Click here for the grant abstract.
2007 Winners
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2007 Building the Qualitative Community Seed Grant Awards. These awards are for faculty at University of Maryland engaged in qualitative research methods. Congratulations to the faculty below for their engaging research projects.
- Dr. Tara Brown, Department of Curriculum and Instruction,
“Project ARISE – Action Research into School Exclusion” - Dr. Sangeetha Madhavan, Department of African American Studies,
“Gender and Generational Effects of HIV/AIDS in Rural South Africa” - Dr. Susan Robb Jones, Department of Counseling and Personnel Services,
“Constructing Identities at the Intersections: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Multiple Dimensions of Identity” - Dr. Laura Mamo, Department of Sociology,
“Risky Subjectivity: Making Meaning of and Acting on Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)”
Recent Articles on Qualitative Methods
- Ambert Anne-Marie et al. 1995. Understanding and evaluating qualitative research. Journal of Marriage and the Family 57:879-893.
- Barbour, Rosaline S. 1998. Mixing qualitative methods: Quality assurance or qualitative quagmire? Qualitative Health Research 8:352-361.
- Henwood, Karen and Nick Pidgeon. 1995. Remaking the link: Qualitative research and feminist standpoint theory. Feminism & Psychology 5:7-30.
- Malterud, Kirsti. 2001. Qualitative research: Standards, challenges, and guideline. The Lancet 358:483-488.
- Pope, Catherine and Nick Mays. 1995. Qualitative research: Reaching the parts other methods cannot reach. BMJ 311:42-45
- Reay, Diane. 1998. Rethinking social class: Qualitative perspectives on class and gender. Sociology 32:259-275.
- Sofaer, S. 1999. Qualitative methods: What are they and why use them? Health Services Research 34:1101-1118.
