Margaret R Roller

🔆Deadline extended! The SQIP 2026 conference "Narrating the Needs of Our Time: Inquiries of Hope, Connection, and Possibility" - July 17-18, 2026 at Duquesne University. Keynote speakers - @saramcclelland.bsky.social & Joseph Gone. New proposal deadline is March 2, 2026. www.sqip.org/call-for-sub...

Qualitative Psychology February Special Section: Women and NonBinary Womxn's Sexuality and Sexualization

Sexual Healing (and Harming): The Radical Transformative Potentialities of Nonbinary Black Womxn’s Sexuality by Monyae Kerney et al at @universityofky.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

University of California Press Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

That untapped wealth of qualitative social science knowledge is is a big part of why @marioluissmall.bsky.social and I wrote Qualitative Literacy, which aims to help folks not trained in qualitative methods to recognize the value of high-quality qualitative work.

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"'修己安人 Cultivating Oneself to Benefit Others': A Qualitative Study on Self-forgiveness in China" by Feng Zhao et al. at @flindersuniversity.bsky.social — Thematic analysis identified four themes that encapsulate the phenomenon of self-forgiveness in Chinese culture psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

"Commitment, integrity, (climate) action! An explorative inquiry of persons’ everyday choices and trade-offs" by Lise Isabella Meistrup & Jacob Klitmøller How people are actively engaging in a complicated puzzle of integrating proenvironmental actions w/in their lives psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

The Qualitative Analysis Trap (or, Coding Until Blue in the Face) There is a trap that is easy to fall into when conducting a thematic-style analysis of qualitative data. The trap revolves around coding and, specifically, the idea that after a general familiariza…

"The Qualitative Analysis Trap (or, Coding Until Blue in the Face)" The researcher benefits from an approach where the focus is not on coding but on “living the data” from each participant’s point of view, ensuring that each lived experience remains intact t.ly/w1iVr

"Toward Meaningful Networks: How Qualitative Research Can Inform Idiographic Assessment and Personalized Care" by @melissadesmet.bsky.social et al. Using adolescent depression — leading cause of illness & disability among adolescents — as a critical clinical example psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

"Towards a Credible In-depth Interview: Building Rapport" A few guidelines that IDI interviewers should consider to establish a trusting relationship with their interviewees and maximize the credibility of their outcomes t.ly/EKxBn #qualitative #totalqualityframework

“'The Unexpected Wheelchair': Exploring U.K. University Students’ Social Perceptions of Dating and Physical Disability Using Story Completion" by @vicclarke.bsky.social and @ginnybraun.bsky.social A narrative design to understand negative social perceptions psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

🔆Deadline extended! The SQIP 2026 conference "Narrating the Needs of Our Time: Inquiries of Hope, Connection, and Possibility" - July 17-18, 2026 at Duquesne University. Keynote speakers - @saramcclelland.bsky.social & Joseph Gone. New proposal deadline is March 2, 2026. www.sqip.org/call-for-sub...

The Josselson Chair in Qualitative Inquiry at Fielding Graduate University Presents: Culture and Innovation in Qualitative Research Speaker Series, Dr. Hector Y. Adames - Fielding Graduate University ... Event on Fielding Graduate University

The Ruthellen Josselson Chair for Qualitative Inquiry at Fielding Graduate University is pleased to launch the Culture & Innovation in Qualitative Research Speaker Series with a presentation by @dradames.bsky.social Saturday, February 21, 2026 9am-10am PST. Register bit.ly/speakerseriesadames

"#Qualitative Research: Prioritizing Participant’s Individuality" - Ethically & in the interest of quality research, researchers owe it to their participants to consider each one as a unique individual with distinctive contributions to make to the study bit.ly/RespectForIn...

Reflecting on Researcher & Participant Effects: Compilation on Bias All research is grounded in the integrity of the research design — from data collection to analysis to reporting. An all-important component of “research integrity” involves the various…

📢"Reflecting on Researcher & Participant Effects: Compilation on Bias" - This compilation includes a selection of 11 articles appearing in RDR, highlighting the importance of reflecting on researcher & participant effects to mitigate potential bias in #qualitative research bit.ly/QRBias

Reflecting on Researcher & Participant Effects: Compilation on Bias All research is grounded in the integrity of the research design — from data collection to analysis to reporting. An all-important component of “research integrity” involves the various…

📢"Reflecting on Researcher & Participant Effects: Compilation on Bias" - This compilation includes a selection of 11 articles appearing in RDR, highlighting the importance of reflecting on researcher & participant effects to mitigate potential bias in #qualitative research bit.ly/QRBias

📢"Reflecting on Researcher & Participant Effects: Compilation on Bias" - This compilation includes a selection of 11 articles appearing in RDR, highlighting the importance of reflecting on researcher & participant effects to mitigate potential bias in #qualitative research bit.ly/QRBias

📢Call for Proposals! SQIP 2026 conference "Narrating the Needs of Our Time: Inquiries of Hope, Connection, and Possibility" will be held July 17-18, 2026, at Duquesne University. Keynote speakers @saramcclelland.bsky.social & Joseph Gone. Deadline is February 23, 2026.
www.sqip.org/call-for-sub...

"The Five Observer Roles in Ethnography" - In nonparticipant observation, the observer may be either off- or onsite; and in participant observation, the observer may be passive, a participant-observer, or a complete participant. bit.ly/2LtJqY6 #totalqualityframework

"Sample Size in Qualitative Research & the Risk of Relying on Saturation" Relying on saturation to establish sample size in #qualitative research ignores the purpose & unique attributes of qualitative research, & prioritizes manifest over latent content bit.ly/2VVoZYW

"A Consideration of the Ethics and Methodological Integrity of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Qualitative Research: Guidelines for Qualitative Psychology" by @heidilevitt.bsky.social QP does not publish articles in which AI was used for six specific activities psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

"Giving Voice: Reflexivity in #Qualitative Research" - February is Black History Month in the U.S. An appropriate time to reflect on power & the “critical essences” of society’s minority voices that may be missing from our studies w/ the most marginalized bit.ly/ReflectOnVoice

📚 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐅-𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐯𝐞 📚

This month’s pick is 𝑬𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑵𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒔 by Ruthellen Josselson & Phillip L. Hammack.

Josselson and Hammack invite us to listen closely to stories.

Through careful textual attention, stories become sites where identity, power, and lived experience intersect. 📖

Qualitative Content Analysis: Defined The following is a modified excerpt from Applied Qualitative Research Design: A Total Quality Framework Approach (Roller & Lavrakas, 2015, pp. 231-232). The qualitative approach to content anal…

"Qualitative Content Analysis: Defined" - There are essential components that define the content analysis method in #qualitative research - It encompasses all data sources, is process-driven, embraces latent & contextual content, identifies patterns bit.ly/3BJBYSy

"A Multi-method Approach in Qualitative Research" - Multiple #qualitative methods requires unique skills but can prove very useful in gaining a fully developed complexity & meaning in the researcher’s understanding of the research objective bit.ly/MultiMeth #totalqualityframework

📢Call for Proposals! SQIP 2026 conference "Narrating the Needs of Our Time: Inquiries of Hope, Connection, and Possibility" will be held July 17-18, 2026, at Duquesne University. Keynote speakers @saramcclelland.bsky.social & Joseph Gone. Deadline is February 23, 2026. www.sqip.org/call-for-sub...

"Exploring Human Realities: A Quality & Fair Approach" - Sample design, inclusion skills, reflexivity are some of the quality #qualitative research strategies that foster fairness, giving participants a rightful voice in the complexities of our research. bit.ly/3uaGwgH

🔍 𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐃/𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐂𝐔𝐒: 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻-𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀
✨ 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: PCNA centers subjectivity, voice, and social context, resisting the tendency to fragment lives into categories.

💡 Scan the QR code to learn more about person-centered narrative analysis in qualitative psychology.

In @apajournals.bsky.social Qualitative Psychology, "Decolonial qualitative enactments and modes of inquiry: A methodological retrospective" by Christopher Sonn & Sunil Bhatia — We aim to demonstrate “how” to undo and “unlearn” Eurocentric forms of colonial knowledge psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

"Person-centered narrative analysis: A methodological retrospective and primer" by Phillip Hammack & Ruthellen Josselson in @apajournals.bsky.social. Situates PCNA within the qualitative revolution in psychology to restore a focus on individual meaning awspntest.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

#3 - “Being Really Confidently Wrong”: Qualitative Researchers’ Experiences of Methodologically Incongruent Peer Review Feedback by @vicclarke.bsky.social et al.

Call for Proposals! SQIP 2026 conference "Narrating the Needs of Our Time: Inquiries of Hope, Connection, and Possibility" will be held July 17-18, 2026, at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Deadline for proposal submissions is February 23, 2026. Submit here bit.ly/4aG7Nhw