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
2009 Grants
We are pleased to announce the 2009 seed grant recipients from the Qualitative Methods Research Interest Group, a joint project of the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity (CRGE) and the Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC).
Leslie Febain, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre
The Journey
Christina Hanhardt, Assistant Professor, American Studies
Safe Space: The Sexual and City Politics of Violence, 1965-2010
Sahar Khamis, Assistant Professor, Department of Communications
New Meanings, New Identities: Egyptian Rural Women, Television and Social Change
Kris Marsh, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
“I Ain’t No Nerd”: Comparing Racial Identity between High Achieving Young Black Women and Men.
Connie North, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Reading and Writing the World: A Study of an Inquiry-to-Action Teacher Group
Lori Simon-Rusinowitz, Associate Professor, School of Public Health
Better Training, Better Care; Identifying Training Needs of Caregivers and Older Consumers with Mental Health Diagnoses in a Consumer-Directed Personal Care Program
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.
