Call for Papers
1st International Symposium on Qualitative Research (ISQR2016)
Porto, Portugal
July 12-13, 2016
The Organizing Committee invites the community to submit proposals to the 1st International Symposium on Qualitative Research and 5th Ibero-American Congress on Qualitative Researchto be held in Porto (Portugal), on days 12, 13 and 14 July 2016. The city of Oporto was chosen as the “Best European Destination 2014“, an award given annually by the “European Consumers Choice,” an independent, non-profit organization. Authors may submit proposals for presentation of papers that meet the goals and themes of the Congress, including original scientific articles addressing revisions to the state of the art research and new perspectives, solutions and / or applications to real problems, empirical and / or evaluation, among others.
Aplication Fields of ISQR:
- Qualitative Research in Health (emphasis on the processes of research in the fields of Medicine, Nursing, Geriatrics, Gerontology, Psychology, etc.).
- Qualitative Research in Education (emphasis on the processes of research in various areas of Higher Education, Basic Education, Assessment, Curriculum, Teaching, Teaching Science, Languages, History, Technology, etc.).
- Qualitative Research in Social Science (emphasis on the processes of research in the fields of Communication, Linguistics, Sociology, Anthropology, Business Administration, Marketing, Management and Economics, etc.)
- Qualitative Research in Engineering and Technology (emphasis on the research processes in the areas of Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering and Engineering Education)
ISQR Themes:
- A) Fundamentals
- Rationale and Paradigms of Qualitative Research (theoretical studies, critical reflection about epistemological dimensions, ontological and axiological)
- Systematization of approaches with Qualitative Studies (literature review, integrating results, aggregation studies, meta -analysis, meta- analysis of qualitative meta- synthesis, meta- ethnography)
- Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research (emphasis in research processes that build on mixed methodologies but with priority to qualitative approaches)
- B) Operationalizing
- Data Analysis Types (content analysis , discourse analysis , thematic analysis , narrative analysis , etc.)
- Innovative processes of Qualitative Data Analysis (design analysis, articulation and triangulation of different sources of data – images, audio, video)
- Qualitative Research in Web Context ( eResearch, virtual ethnography, interaction analysis , latent corpus on the internet, etc.)
- Qualitative Analysis with Support of Specific Software (usability studies, user experience, the impact of software on the quality of research and analysis)
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: March 6, 2016
Notification of acceptance: April 24, 2016
Submission of accepted papers: May 8, 2016
Submission of video*: May 30, 2016
Payment of registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: May 8, 2016
ISQR2016: July 12 and 13, 2016
ISQR2016 Organizing Committee