Feb

22

We’re Back Online ~ Avoid RegisterFly!

February 22, 2007 | posted by Scott | Leave a Comment

After a few stressful days of being AWOL, our website is back online. It turns out the problem was with the registrar we used to register the domain name–although we paid (several times) for the renewal of the registration, RegisterFly did not process the renewal and the registration expired. Fortunately, despite the current mess at RegisterFly, we managed to get the domain transfered to eNom and get back online. Many others have not been so fortunate. (Read more to find out about the RegisterFly mess.)
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Feb

13

Diversity in Research

February 13, 2007 | posted by Ryan | Leave a Comment

Now, a bit of a different pace……..

As some of you know, I have been teaching a Diversity Research Group at a local graduate school, helping train Ph.D. students how to conduct research. Within this class we are focusing on the topic of Diversity in Academia. Some of the key questions we are contemplating are: How does an institution of higher education promote diversity within student, faculty, and administration? How do faculty incorporate diversity into graduate training in psychology? In an institution that both differentiates itself from the normal US cultural standard and incorporates US cultural standards of education, how does one define diversity - i.e., diversity in which context? And how does an academic institution incorporate diversity into its topic area (in our case, psychology, and more specifically, transpersonal psychology)?

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[Posted in Research]


Feb

13

And how might our research change if…..?

February 13, 2007 | posted by Ryan | Leave a Comment

And how might our research change if this technology were readily available? If we could sort data easily with our fingers, group it onscreen (especially images - having conducted Artistic Inquiry I find this particularly intriguing). It may be similar to textual QDAS, but this goes even further! Check it out and see what you think the possibilities might be….

[Posted in Research & Technology]


Feb

13

CAQDAS Conference in London

February 13, 2007 | posted by Ryan | Leave a Comment

CAQDAS 07 Conference
Advances in Qualitative Computing
18 - 20 April 2007
Royal Holloway, University of London

This is a conference that is coming up specifically on the use of computer software during qualitative data analysis. You may wish to visit the website (http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/conference/conference07.htm) for details. According to the website, the conference “brings together methodologists, users, developers and trainers of software designed to facilitate qualitative research, to discuss and share methods, applications and experiences.”

[Posted in Research & Technology]


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