We're delighted to announce the theme for QRS 2026: Creating, Negotiating, and Challenging Boundaries in Qualitative Research 💡 We will ponder important questions around participation, access and inclusion in qualitative research. Submit abstracts here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/bathreg/qr...

What does openness and transparency in qualitative methods mean to you? 🧐 If you're interested in these discussions, join our european open qualitative research community here: forms.gle/EbC2CsjPbw6t... #openresearch #qualitative #metaresearch

Call for papers for a Special Issue on Metascience and Psychology Pedagogy in Teaching of Psychology with @richharrisleeds.bsky.social! 2-page abstracts due to me by 1st April please! Always happy to chat through ideas journals.sagepub.com/page/top/cal...

Our starter pack for the qualitative methods community is growing! Check out these brilliant qual scholars, and reply to this post if you'd like to be included: bsky.app/starter-pack... #qualitative

An extraordinary week spent discussing Openness, Transparency and Rigour at #QRS2025! Thank you to everyone for creating an incredibly inspiring, and friendly conference! Check out our great summary vid including our keynotes @maddipow.bsky.social and Sarah Neal 💪 What did you learn from QRS 2025?

Was an honour to share my experiences of open research advocacy at #QRS2025. Giving a talk at an event I'm organising was a unique challenge, but the response I got to expressing my vulnerability and difficulties in this area was well worth it. Thanks to the warm reception [email protected]

Always a pleasure to hear more about @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social's excellent and prescient ethnographic work on scientist-activism at #QRS2025, super relevant insights for the evolving political climate... @cqr-bath.bsky.social

Silke Beck at @tum.de's STS department is looking for a postdoc (full position, five years) specialising in environmental STS. Deadline for application is 15 March 2025. Salary is somewhere in the ballpark of €2.8 k and €3.8 k after taxes (depending on your job experience and marital status).

An excellent symposium to end #QRS2025 with Clare Hawkes and Vibhor Mathur on navigating transparency in resource poor contexts. Incredible accounts and stories of ethnographic research and its complexities. Taking time to meet participants where they are and understand your role and positonality. 💪

Great speaking at #QRS2025 on the challenges around openness & transparency in ethnographic research. On my ethnography of scientist-activism with Scientists for XR @scientistsx.bsky.social which inspired the following recent work: tinyurl.com/287n4ees tinyurl.com/muaptp9e tinyurl.com/ym3wfv4v

An excellent symposium to end #QRS2025 with Clare Hawkes and Vibhor Mathur on navigating transparency in resource poor contexts. Incredible accounts and stories of ethnographic research and its complexities. Taking time to meet participants where they are and understand your role and positonality. 💪

Lovely talk by Juliette Ttofa on intuitive inquiry at #QRS2025. Love this quote: "When we allow ourselves to be vulnerable, we open the door to creativity. Creativity isn't always valued in the academy... but it is essential for discovering innovative ways of expressing ideas" (Behar, 2022).

Another great morning of presentations at #QRS2025 day two! A beautiful keynote from Prof. Sarah Neal exploring her use of poetry as qualitative rigour and “amplifying what is already there”. Incredibly moving work!

Waking up in Bath today for #QRS2025 to talk all things qual and open research It’s so nice to explore my city of study, as I usually commute from Cardiff

#QRS2025 balancing openness and ethics is a continuous process to ensure both rigour and the safety of participants, and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Or is there? Lots of questions arising from session by @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social

Insightful & thought provoking reflections from @annayahprosser.bsky.social on open (qualitative) research advocacy at #QRS2025 this morning

#QRS2025 Evangeline Gowie's presentation on her work to create a tool to help researchers find guidance around how and whether to share their data has the potential to be a game changer

"Open science is not a new thing. People have been talking about how to reconcile scientific messiness and rigour for a long time"- @maddipow.bsky.social #QRS2025 @cqr-bath.bsky.social

Loving the workshops at #QRS2025 : 1. Qual research clinics, where PhD students and ECRs move every 10 minute to a new table asking questions about #Qualresearch 2. Qual Research and AI delivered by Casual Map

AGREED! Open research must include and value qualitative perspectives 👏👏👏 #QRS2025

Had a lovely time giving the keynote at #QRS2025! In it, I shared 3 big hot-takes: 1. Open science is not new (see: the work of feminist scholars for decades) 2. It is not open to all (see: bropen science) 3. Open science could be transformative for qualitative research

Very happy to have presented my research on desire in qualitative research at #QRS2025! 😁

Great reflections on reflexivity from our next talk with Nai Lang #QRS2025 @cqr-bath.bsky.social

A laugh out loud reflections on reflection from Nai Lang! We’ve all been there- bringing the humanity back into research!! #QRS2025

Excited to be at #QRS2025, I've already had some useful conversations before the sessions start!

Some great examples of best practice! #QRS2025

Fascinating talk from Tamarinde Haven just now on developing a template on OSF for preregistering qualitative research #QRS2025

This has been my highlight so far today, from an outstandingly high quality selection of talks #QRS2025

Excellent keynote today from @maddipow.bsky.social - Everything she said made pure sense and even included a little history lesson in open science 🧬 (and bropen science 😂) There is more than one way to be scientific! 🧪 #QRS2025

Onto session two, with Will Mason offering a beautiful reflection on the ethics of omission in qualitative research. Lots of food for thought. #QRS2025 @cqr-bath.bsky.social

Fascinating talk from @draimeegrant.bsky.social at #QRS2025 on involving participants in analysis and the risks involved in making qualitative data fully open

#QRS2025 research findings don't have to be converted purely through text. I'm excited by the use of alternative methods such as theatre to give voice to minorities populations

Final talk of session one at #QRS2025, Xavier Salet talking about how qualitative scholars use the UK data service… @cqr-bath.bsky.social

“Are these practices addressing things that we care about?” Fantastic keynote from @maddipow.bsky.social at #QRS2025 just now questioning the orthodoxies of (br)open science & highlighting potentially fruitful ways forward. #OpenResearch

Stunning talk at #QRS2025 today from Jenni about how libraries can contribute to conversations about open research. Especially loved the idea of epistemic violence within some 'open science' narratives, and the need for inclusive disciplinary approaches

In Bath at the Qualitative Research Symposium #QRS2025, which this year is focused on openness, transparency & rigour in qual research. Looking forward to presenting my paper on how libraries can support inclusive dialogue around open research, moving beyond a focus on ‘open science’.

Excited to be at #QRS2025 for two days nerding out 🤓 (do we use hash tags here?)

#QRS2025 I have never considered the place power has to play in the decisions we make about what to include and what to omit from our research findings and indeed all the decisions we make around analysis. Really thought-provoking talk by Will Mason from University of Sheffield

Thank you @maddipow.bsky.social for an interesting and very important Keynote speech in Rigour and Vigour in Open Research! #QRS2025

“Rigour with vigour: reimagining open science for qualitative research” @maddipow.bsky.social #QRS2025

At #QRS2025 in Bath this week and I've finally met my fellow open research/qualitative/Taylor Swift/metaresearch sister in arms @annayahprosser.bsky.social!

Listening now to a duo-lightning talk about duo-interviewing #QRS2025

Tamarinde Haven kicking off #QRS2025 with a talk on qualitative preregistration! Very excited for this one!!

Ready for the arrivals of our delegates of our 9th Annual Qual research Symposium. #QRS2025 Welcome to all

Really looking forward to this, there are some fascinating talks lined up #QRS25

So very excited for this next week!

Final call for registeration. Deadline today 23.59 hrs. #qualitativeresearch #phd #qualmethods #research #conference #bath #SWDTP #postgraduate #qualresearch Programme's here: www.bath.ac.uk/publications... Don't miss out the keynotes from @maddipow.bsky.social @profsarahneal & workshops at #QRS25

DEADLINE #QRS25 IS TODAY. Programme is now live www.bath.ac.uk/publications...

This is your last chance to register for #QRS2025! Find out more here www.bath.ac.uk/events/qrs-2... #qualitative #qualitativeresearch #openscience

⭐ FINAL CALL FOR QRS 2025 REGISTRATIONS ⭐ Registration for #QRS2025 closes at 23:59 GMT today, so please don't delay and sign up! Two days of over 50 talks on Openness, Transparency and Rigour in Qualitative Research- not to be missed! Full programme and info here: www.bath.ac.uk/events/qrs-2...