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Researchware Keynotes The Qualitative Report's 4th Annual Conference
Researchware cofounder, Dr. Sharlene Janice Nagy Hesse-Biber is to be the keynote speaker at The Qualitative Report's Fourth Annual Conference, January 18 - 19, 2013. The conference, sponsored by the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA, explores the theme of "Qualitative Research and Technology". As the inspiration behind Researchware's Simply Powerful Tools for Qualitative Research and editor of the Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research (Oxford University Press, 2011), among many other publications, Dr. Hesse-Biber is a leader in the role of technology in qualitative research.
Sharlene's address is on "The Medium is the Message." Channeling Mashall McLuhan's Insights to Examine the Role of Emergent Technologies in Social Research.
Marshall McLuhan's path-breaking book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964, notes the character of the medium through which a message is delivered is most important with regard to how it is understood by others. This insight led him to emphatically note, "The medium is the message,'' because he firmly believed in the independent impact of a given medium to affect the very content of the message.
In this talk I will "channel" some of Marshall McLuhan's insights on technology and social research, as I present my thoughts on the variety of ways newly emergent technologies challenge our basic research practices and upend traditional disciplinary points of view regarding such foundational questions as: What is the nature of the social world? Who can know? What can be known?
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Researchware Cofounder to deliver keynote address at POWS Annual Conference
The Psychology of Women Section (POWS) of the British Psychological Society's three-day Annual Conference covers a wide range of issues including: gender, mental health, women's health, feminist theory, masculinities, sexualities, qualitative methodologies, disability, ethnicity, and racism. The conference takes place from Wednesday, July 11th to Friday, July 13th 2012, at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK.The 2012 conference themes include Women and Austerity, Feminism and Media, Feminism and Sport, and Feminism and Trans-Feminism. Researchware's cofounder, Dr. Sharlene Hesse-Biber, is one of three distinguished keynote speakers, along with Vikki Krane and Natacha Kennedy, for this internationally recognized event. Dr. Hesse-Biber is speaking on Applying Feminist Principles of Praxis to Interrogate Austerity Policies and their Impact on Women's Lived Experiences and would be happy to meet with people interested in learning more about Researchware's Simply Powerful Tools for Qualitative Research throughout the conference. For more information on the conference, please see http://pows.bps.org.uk/pows/conference/conference_home.cfm.
Researchware Cofounder Keynote Speaker at Fordham University Conference
Fordham University, the Jesuit University of New York, recently held a one day conference on Human Rights, Social Justice and Qualitative Methods on April 21, 2012. The conference was sponsored by the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service and was part of the Be The Evidence Project, a non-profit independent scholarly and creative venture designed to disseminate knowledge, values, and skills that will help improve the individual and community response to critical social issues. Researchware cofounder and Boston College faculty member, Dr. Sharlene Hesse-Biber presented the Keynote Address on "Where is the Social Justice in Social Research? : Infusing a Social Justice Mission into Social Science Research". Researchware is proud that it's Simply Powerful Tools for Qualitative Research are used in so many fields to work towards improving society for all. Browse our sampling of research papers on a wide range of topics, all using Researchware's tools for their underlying research.
HyperRESEARCH Explores the Use of Blogs as a Tool to Promote Teaching Goals
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HyperRESEARCH - a Student Review
We love to see independent reviews of our software - good or bad - as it always tells us something about what we're doing right and where we need to improve. We were especially delighted to see this review of our Simply Powerful Tool for Qualitative Research - HyperRESEARCH™! The review focuses of the perspectives and needs of graduate students. The founders of Researchware all came from Academia and we know what it is like to be a graduate student, which is why we offer the product the way we do - no expiration date on the license, fully upgradable, non-expiring free trial version - an more, all for students. Read the review by Mathieu Reynolds at http://mreyn012.grads.digitalodu.com/blog/?p=846 and download our free trial for yourself, but we have to say, we completely agree with Mat's comment that "HyperResearch has a relatively low learning curve" and the time that saves can make all the difference to a busy Grad!