A one day workshop on 'Reusing Qualitative Data' is being organised by the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at the University of Manchester on Wednesday 28 September 2005.
Reusing qualitative data is becoming increasingly common. However it remains a contentious practice, with continuing concerns about methodological pitfalls and clashes over its epistemological status. While many dialogues on reusing qualitative data turn on comparisons with secondary analysis of quantitative data, this workshop invites a different and possibly more fruitful starting point: how does reusing qualitative data differ from using qualitative data? And how would this conceptualization of issues around reusing qualitative data enable a reworking of existing controversies?
Researchers at the Centre are keen to engage on re-use. To this end the first project of the CRESC Qualitative Research Laboratory is to explore potential strategies and possibilities for rethinking the challenges posed by reusing qualitative data. Bringing together speakers from the two major British archives for qualitative data (Qualidata and Mass-Observation), and two CRESC researchers, with a range of discussants from diverse perspectives, we aim for a lively day of interaction and intense debate revisioning the reuse of qualitative data.
Please see link below for programme and registration and booking details.
http://www.cresc.man.ac.uk/events/workshop280905/workshop280905main.htm
Best wishes,
Niamh Moore
Dr. Niamh Moore
Qualitative Research Laboratory
ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change
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The ESRC Research Centre on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) is a University of Manchester-Open University collaboration.
