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Data Collection Begins

Charlotte and I are starting data collection for our NSF study on Leveraging Development Expertise Across Cyberinfrastructures (OCI-083860). This grant grew out of a realization about projects we were studying in medical research, biology, engineering, and the humanities: even though our focus was on what was going on inside these projects, much of the development work spanned multiple projects. Our participants told us about “leveraging” and “synergies” in a way that suggested that these were important aspects of their work,…

Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research

March 10, 2009

Matthew Bietz

Research Methods

The NSF has just released the report from a 2005 workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research. The workshop brought together 24 scholars from cultural anthropology, law and social science, political science, and sociology to: articulate the standards used in their particular field to ensure rigor across the range of qualitative methodological approaches; identify common criteria shared across the four disciplines for designing and evaluating research proposals and fostering multidisciplinary collaborations; and develop an agenda for strengthening the tools,…

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