Qualitative Research Seed Grant Opportunity
"Building the Qualitative Community" program - Deadline : 4 November 2009
Participant observation and interviewing are emphasized
The Qualitative Research Interest Group (QRIG), a joint effort by MPRC the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, and is sponsoring a group of seed grant opportunities for researchers interested in applying an interpretive research method such as participant observation or in-depth interviewing.
Assistant Professors have particularly high priority in the funding program but all faculty are eligible. The grant application must be for a study that primarily uses research methods of participant-observation and/or in-depth interviewing (e.g., participant-observation of a specific group, two-hour interviews, or life histories). A study that is designed primarily as an analysis of historical documents, regrettably, is not included in the guidelines for this program. It is expected that a primary focus of the data collection is on understanding the meaning of events in the lives of study participants (i.e., an interpretative approach) rather than collecting data that measures the frequency of events (i.e., a survey approach).