Join us for a whole-day event focused on qualitative research methods in social sciences, humanities, public health, and engineering design. All OSU faculty, researchers, instructors, graduate students, and undergraduate students are invited!

Schedule

• 8:30 - 9 a.m.
  • Snack and coffee
• 9:00 - 9:15 a.m.: Opening Notes
  • Dr. Shaozeng Zhang, assistant professor, OSU School of Language, Culture, and Society (SLCS)
  • Dr. Carolyn Mendez-Luck, professor emerita, OSU College of Health
• 9:15 - 10:45 a.m.: Complementing Analytical Frameworks to Interpret Qualitative Data in Social Sciences
  • Dr. Nírvia Ravena de Sousa, professor, Federal University of Pará, Brazil
• 11:00 - 11:45 a.m.: Language and Memory in Health Ethnography
  • Dr. Emily Yates-Doerr, associate professor, SLCS
• 12:00 - 12:45 p.m.: Storytelling vs. Statistics: Three Decades of Writing and Researching Latin American History
  • Dr. Nicole von Germeten, professor, OSU School of History, Philosophy, and Religion (SHPR)
• 12:45 - 1:15 p.m.: Lunch
• 1:15 - 2:00 p.m.: Integrating Qualitative Research Methods into Multi-disciplinary Research Teams
  • Dr. Bastian Thomsen, postdoctoral researcher, University of Oxford, U.K.
• 2:15 - 3:00 p.m.: "Into the Archive": Qualitative Data from Quantitative Sources
  • Aimee Hisey, PhD candidate and instructor, SHPR
• 3:15 - 4:00 p.m.: Lessons from the Brazilian Amazon Fire Zone: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Conflict Areas
  • Mariana Ribeiro Porto Araújo. PhD student and instructor, OSU School of Language, Culture, and Society
• 4:15 - 5:00 p.m.: Students and Faculty Workshop - Qaulitative Research Methods Training
  • Group facilitators:
    • Aimee Hisey, PhD candidate and instructor, SLCS
    • Elizabeth Olson, MA student, SLCS
    • Kiernan Kilkenny, MS student, OSU College of Engineering (ENG)
    • Ethan Copple (on Zoom), PhD student, ENG
• 5: 00 - 6:00 p.m.: Snack and social

Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the College of Liberal Arts.