WCQR2021: 5th World Conference on Qualitative Research Online January 20-22, 2021 |
Conference website | http://www.wcqr.info |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcqr2021 |
Conference program | https://easychair.org/smart-program/WCQR2021/ |
Poster | download |
Panel Discussion proposals | September 20, 2020 |
Notification of acceptance – Panel Discussions | September 21, 2020 |
Submission deadline | October 11, 2020 |
QUAL4Business Talks proposals | October 21, 2020 |
Notification of acceptance – Abstracts | October 25, 2020 |
Early bird registration | November 8, 2020 |
WCQR2021
5th World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR2021)
The World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR) is an annual event that aims to bring together researchers, academics and professionals, promoting the sharing and discussion of knowledge, new perspectives, experiences and innovations on the field of Qualitative Research. The growing success of previous editions is an important indicator of a multidisciplinary, committed and involved community in the context of qualitative research.
The 5th World Conference on Qualitative Research will take place at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences University of Barcelona (Spain), 20th to 22nd January 2021. We believe WCQR will continue its growth in the number and quality of submissions, confirming itself as one of the main worldwide events on qualitative research. The main objective is for WCQR to maintain the indicators of success with each new edition, encouraging the submission of scientific works that focus on several fields of application in Qualitative Research, from Education to Health, Social Sciences, Engineering and Technology, among others, as well as a crosswise and holistic view, with the approach of several themes and dimensions of research.
Submission Guidelines
Abstracts must be original and must not be under review for any other conference or national or international publication. Manuscripts should be written in English (works in other languages will not be considered). All works must be submitted under the guidelines.
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PHASE 1 – Abstracts: proposals for the presentation of Abstracts which address the objectives and themes of the Conference, including original scientific works addressing the state-of-the-art research and new perspectives, solutions and/or applications to real problems, empirical studies and/or evaluation, among others. Types:
- Oral Presentation: Abstracts must have between 250 and 300 words. Authors of accepted abstracts will have 15 minutes for the in-person presentation, plus 5 minutes for discussion at the conference;
- Poster Presentation: Abstracts must have between 250 and 300 words. Presentation will be in Poster format, at the Conference.
Please read the Guidelines and Templates here >>
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PHASE 2 – Full Papers:
- Authors of selected Abstracts will be invited to send a full paper version of their work, to be published in WCQR Books (with ISBN and DOI) or in journals associated with WCQR2021, provided they fall into the scope of these journals;
- Full papers must be sent using the template (template soon);
- Authors may decline the publication of their work and only make the in-person/online communication.
List of Topics
IMPORTANT: Being an international conference on Qualitative Research, 1/3 of the article should have a focus on methodology. This approach should analyze the relation between research questions, theories and results and the methodology used. The conclusions should reflect the importance of the methodology based on the results of the work and the literature already published on the subject. Articles that do not meet this criterion will be returned for correction or rejected.
Application Fields:
Proposals can be submitted whose Fields of Application cover the following areas:
- Qualitative Research in Health (emphasis on the processes of research in the fields of Medicine, Nursing, Geriatrics, Gerontology, Psychology, etc.).
- Qualitative Research in Education (emphasis on the processes of research in various areas of Higher Education, Basic Education, Assessment, Curriculum, Teaching, Teaching Science, Languages, History, Technology, etc.).
- Qualitative Research in Social Science (emphasis on the processes of research in the fields of Communication, Linguistics, Sociology, Anthropology, Organizational and Work Psychology, Business Administration, Marketing, Management and Economics, Political Science, etc.).
- Qualitative Research in Engineering and Technology (emphasis on the research processes in the areas of Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering and Engineering Education)
Themes:
A) Fundamentals
- Rationale and Paradigms of Qualitative Research (theoretical studies, critical reflection about epistemological dimensions, ontological and axiological);
- Systematization of approaches with Qualitative Studies (literature review, integrating results, aggregation studies, meta -analysis, meta- analysis of qualitative meta- synthesis, meta- ethnography);
- Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research (emphasis in research processes that build on mixed methodologies but with priority to qualitative approaches).
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B) Operationalizing
- Data Analysis Types (content analysis , discourse analysis , thematic analysis , narrative analysis , etc.);
- Innovative processes of Qualitative Data Analysis (design analysis, articulation and triangulation of different sources of data – images, audio, video);
- Qualitative Research in Web Context ( eResearch, virtual ethnography, interaction analysis , latent corpus on the internet, etc.);
- Qualitative Analysis with Support of Specific Software (usability studies, user experience, the impact of software on the quality of research and analysis).
Committees
Please see the Committees here: https://wcqr.info/committees/
Invited Speakers
- Adelaida Zabalegui, Barcelona University (ES)
- Kahryn Hughes, University of Leeds (UK)
- Grzegorz Bryda, Jagiellonian University (PL)
Publication
Selected abstracts will be published in the following books/special issues:
- New Trends in Qualitative Research – Qualitative Research: practices and challenges (with ISBN and DOI)
- Springer Series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” (Indexing: ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink)
- Learn more about the publication process >>
Venue
The 5th World Conference on Qualitative Research will take place on January 20th to 22nd, 2021, at The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences University of Barcelona – Campus Clínic (see how to arrive >>).
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to conference@wcqr.info.