"Understanding the Experiences of Long-term Residents in Low-income Cities: A #Qualitative Approach" - New blog post at bit.ly/47RsfdT w/ the spotlight on the @ajoneslayman.bsky.social et al. article in the 2025 @poqjournal.bsky.social special issue. This article explores the @who.int ACF domains.

"Qualitative Research to Explore High-Risk Dissent" - New blog post highlighting Jieun Baek's article in the 2025 @poqjournal.bsky.social special issue concerning the #qualitative research design approach used to explore the factors motivating first movers of dissent in Burma. bit.ly/3IramrR

"Qualitative Research to Explore High-Risk Dissent" - New blog post highlighting Jieun Baek's article in the 2025 @poqjournal.bsky.social l special issue concerning the #qualitative research design used to explore the factors motivating first movers of dissent in Burma. bit.ly/3IramrR

Six new faculty members have joined SSRI! Please welcome Miranda Galvin, Riley Tucker, Janette Watkins, Kari Sherwood, Kathryn Spearman & Elizabeth Skowron. @psuedu.bsky.social Read more about them here ➡️

Saving this piece on different approaches to thematic analysis + blending multiple approaches for future discussions of data analysis. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

POQ's 2025 special issue underlines the importance of qualitative research in the social sciences. Roller & Smith outline different methodological approaches to qualitative research and its critical role in social and behavioral sciences. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

What leads journalists to withhold from publishing content? In POQ, Ferreira & Daoust assess this dilemma on whether to publish problematic content. In their considerations, journalists must carefully weigh how they may shape public opinion. Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

"Re-considering the Question of 'Why'" - #Qualitative researchers gain profound insight on the lived experience, but rarely from the question of "why." Here are four reasons to consider asking what, when, where, who, how – & sometimes, why. bit.ly/QuestionOfWhy

Survey Practice 2026 Special Issue — Call for Papers — “Mixed Methods Research: Deepening Our Knowledge Through Integrated Designs” Guest editors: @margaretrroller.bsky.social and Doug Currivan — Submission deadline: November 14, 2025 www.surveypractice.org/post/3334-20...

For the first time, a special issue of @poqjournal.bsky.social devoted to #qualitative research! The 2025 special issue: Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social & Behavioral Sciences - Articles using a quality approach to study the vulnerable, sensitive topics & QDA bit.ly/POQQRissue

As Zachary Smith & I write in "Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social and Behavioral Sciences," "The integrity of all research lies in the steps that the researcher has taken to meet quality standards at each step of the research process" academic.oup.com/poq/article/... @poqjournal.bsky.social

Just published, the 2025 @poqjournal.bsky.social special issue: Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social & Behavioral Sciences. The link to the Table of Contents where you can freely access each of the 10 articles is academic.oup.com/poq/issue/89...

It is with enormous pleasure that I announce the publication of the first special issue of @poqjournal.bsky.social devoted to #qualitative research! The 2025 special issue: Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social & Behavioral Sciences bit.ly/POQQRissue @aapor.bsky.social

"Member Checking & the Importance of Context" - Expecting participants to think & respond as they did when they shared their lived experiences w/ the researcher is unreasonable. In-the-moment, question-answer member checking is a better quality option. bit.ly/3o5Fe4c

@mariekehaan.bsky.social and Simon Venema have made an important contribution to this special issue and to the research community. I encourage all to read their POQ article concerning a blended approach to Thematic Analysis.

🚨Out now! 🚨 POQ's special issue on #qualitative public opinion research. An overview from the editors: bit.ly/POQQRissue All articles and notes: academic.oup.com/poq/issue/89...

It is with enormous pleasure that I announce the publication of the first-ever special issue of @poqjournal.bsky.social devoted to #qualitative research! The 2025 special issue: Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social & Behavioral Sciences bit.ly/POQQRissue @aapor.bsky.social

"#Qualitative Research: Prioritizing Participant’s Individuality" - Researchers owe it to their participants & to the quality of their research outcomes to consider each participant as a unique individual w/ distinctive contributions to make to the study tinyurl.com/388yjbp3

"#Qualitative Sample Design: Making the Most of Diversity & Inclusion" - An all-important consideration when building inclusive sample designs is the quality of data analysis, i.e., the ability to account for & interpret the diversity embedded in the data. bit.ly/4btUZsF

@surveypractice.bsky.social 2026 Special Issue — Call for Papers “Mixed Methods Research: Deepening Our Knowledge Through Integrated Designs” Guest editors: @margaretrroller.bsky.social and Doug Currivan — Submission deadline: November 14, 2025 bit.ly/MMRspecialis... @aapor.bsky.social

"Focus Group Discussions: Is This the 'Best' Method?" Group discussions are ideal when the research topic is not highly sensitive & the dynamics of group interaction can foster key insights. A more productive focus group (in any mode) is smaller in size bit.ly/3JyZwQP

"Essential to #Qualitative Research: The Human Component" - 16 articles highlighting the human component associated with paradigm orientation, context & meaning, diversity & inclusion, nonverbal communication, giving sufficient time to derive useful outcomes t.ly/EmSSv

Survey Practice – 2026 Special Issue on Mixed Methods – Call for Papers! "Mixed Methods Research: Deepening Our Knowledge Through Integrated Designs" Guest editors: @margaretrroller.bsky.social and Doug Currivan – Submission deadline: November 14, 2025

Survey Practice – 2026 Special Issue on Mixed Methods – Call for Papers! "Mixed Methods Research: Deepening Our Knowledge Through Integrated Designs" Guest editors: @margaretrroller.bsky.social and Doug Currivan - Submission deadline: November 14, 2025 www.surveypractice.org/post/3334-20...

"Mixed Research Methods & the Complex Mosaic of Human Reality" — Our value as researchers is our ability to effectively use each piece of the research to create a mosaic that brings us closer to the realities of the people at the core of what we do bit.ly/44zK53v

Survey Practice 2026 Special Issue — Call for Papers “Mixed Methods Research: Deepening Our Knowledge Through Integrated Designs” Guest editors: @margaretrroller.bsky.social and Doug Currivan — Submission deadline: Nov 14, 2025 bit.ly/MMRspecialis... @surveypractice.bsky.social @aapor.bsky.social

Survey Practice 2026 Special Issue — Call for Papers “Mixed Methods Research: Deepening Our Knowledge Through Integrated Designs” Guest editors: @margaretrroller.bsky.social and Doug Currivan — Submission deadline: Nov 14, 2025 bit.ly/MMRspecialis... @aapor.bsky.social @surveypractice.bsky.social

"A Quality Approach to Qualitative Content Analysis" - In this article I discuss what makes QCA similar to and different from other #qualitative research methods from the standpoint of a quality approach. bit.ly/41IRevX

Thrilled to announce advance access to the introductory article for the first-ever special issue of Public Opinion Quarterly devoted to #qualitative research. "Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social and Behavioral Sciences" by @margaretrroller.bsky.social and Zachary Smith bit.ly/QRAdvancingS...

How do you ground health data in lived experiences? NORC senior fellow Lisa Shugarman is exploring how combining quantitative analysis with community engagement can improve health care in California's Medi-Cal system. Find out more: go.norc.org/416BZwG

“A much-needed, path-breaking book” - Award-winning book with examples of studies from a wide range of disciplines illustrate the strengths, limitations, and applications of a quality approach within six primary #qualitative methods bit.ly/QualityQR #totalqualityframework

"Qualitative Research 'Participants' Are Not 'Respondents' (& Other Misplaced Concepts From Quantitative Research)" - Many quantitative concepts & techniques cannot & should not be considered in #qualitative research. Here are just three examples. bit.ly/QRisnotQuant

"Beyond the Behavior-plus-“why” Approach: Personal Meaning as Insight" - The behavior-plus-“why” transactional approach doesn’t account for personal meaning. Finding personal meaning requires time w/ participants to explore what their words mean to them. Water slide at the workplace? bit.ly/3Hs5TEV

Related recommended reading by @allisonpugh.bsky.social

"Elevating #Qualitative Design to Maximize Research Integrity" - The TQF does not prescribe a formula but rather offers a flexible way to focus on quality issues & help build critical thinking skills towards maximizing the integrity of research outcomes t.ly/dO2Jn

"A Key to Qualitative Data Analysis: Time" - Qualitative data analysis — understanding the contextual meanings of how people think (individually and collectively) — takes time. Embrace it. Enjoy it. It is why we conduct #qualitative research in the first place. bit.ly/45hFrpn

What is Your Meaning of “Qualitative Research”? The methods, the types of questions, & the resulting data make #qualitative research unique, yet the meaning of QR lies in the fundamental truism that conducting research with human beings is complicated bit.ly/2JaVM7Z

#Qualitative Research Design & Methods: Three Compilations of RDR Articles published in 2024 - bit.ly/4lfZevw

"Elevating Qualitative Design to Maximize Research Integrity" - The distinctive attributes & underlying complexities in #qualitative research necessitate a quality yet flexible approach to the research design by way of critical thinking around basic principles of good research. bit.ly/3A93qGY

"The TQF #Qualitative Research Proposal: The Research Team" - The principal researcher and the other people making up the research team are critical to the credibility of the data and and analysis and ultimately the usefulness of the research outcomes bit.ly/4l48d2w

Someone who supports my work has paid for 3 books for me to give away! I'll double that - so I have *six* to give away!!! To enter just repost & comment below. I'll announce the winners on friday (1st Aug). Please do share, thanks. 🙏🤟🍻 More info on the book here - www.routledge.com/Doing-Good-S....

"Feelings & Sensations: Where Survey Designs Fail Badly" - Capturing "real" feelings and sensations is a necessary and important goal of research with human beings. #Qualitative methods allow researchers to tap into those often elusive inner experiences. bit.ly/4mdzPmY

Call for Papers – Advance Notice - From @aapor.bsky.social, Survey Practice 2026 Special Issue “Mixed Methods Research: Deepening Our Knowledge Through Integrated Designs” - Guest editors: @margaretrroller.bsky.social and Doug Currivan - CfP goes out in August bit.ly/SPspecialMMRissue

"Working with Multiple Methods in #Qualitative Research: 7 Unique Researcher Skills" - Case study & narrative research use multiple methods to gain a complete understanding of complex subject matter, requiring 7 essential researcher skills bit.ly/4l6aEln

"Differences Between Idea Generation & Focus Group Discussions" - Ideation sessions are not the same as a focus group discussion in at least 6 ways: the objectives, prelim groundwork, recruitment, session length, facilitation, & psychological environment bit.ly/450vZGL

"Words Versus Meanings" - How we use our words provides the context that shapes what the receiver hears and the perceptions others associate with our words. Going beyond words – to find actual meaning – will lead to more accurate and useful outcomes. bit.ly/4o3pb3S

In @apajournals.bsky.social "Toward Dismantling Anti-Blackness in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Through Photovoice: Examining How Black Womxn in STEM Protected Their Mental Health and Wellness Through Resistance" by Kerrie Wilkins-Yel et al. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

"Mitigating Researcher-as-instrument Effects" As the key instrument in gaining #qualitative data, the researcher bears a great deal of responsibility for compromised data that distorts the ultimate usefulness researchers derive from their research studies. bit.ly/4gTKeRT

"Contextual Analysis: A Fundamental Attribute of #Qualitative Research"-There are many contextually grounded aspects of QDA that aid in quality analytical outcomes-the unit of analysis, meaning of words, categorical buckets, use of transcripts & recordings t.ly/Rv1Bo

Amazing, useful, relevant round table with Dr. Cynthia Lubin Langtiw on teaching qualitative methods. Great resource sharing among all here!