Eagle QuaRC Hosts Qualitative Research Symposium

August 29, 2014

Georgia Southern's Eagle Qualitative Research Community, Eagle QuaRC, is gearing up for the Qualitative Research Symposium, its annual fall event, on Friday, September 12 from Noon – 5 p.m.  The event will be held in the College of Engineering and Information Technology building on the third floor located in the Professional Development Center. “Join us as we celebrate qualitative research across campus! This year promises to be a great event,” says Amelia Davis, Ph.D., assistant professor of Educational Research, Department of Curriculum, Foundations and Reading. During the event, lunch will be provided by the College of Business Administration at no cost to attendees.  A keynote address will be given by Lori Amy, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. Her address will highlight her approach to research, her work connecting activism and research in Albania on traumatic memory, and identity under communism and in transition. Concurrent sessions will be held by the following:

• Moya Alfonso, Ph.D., and Ashley Walker, Ph.D., from the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health on using PhotoVoice in qualitative research.
• Nikki DeGregorio, Ph.D., from the College of Health and Human Sciences (School of Human Ecology, Child & Family Development) regarding how the changing marriage policies in Delaware influenced homosexual couples decisions on partnerships.

In addition, a Roundtable Q&A Open Session will be held related to qualitative research design, data collection, data analysis and the Institutional Review Board. Participants must register by Tuesday, Sept. 9.