Call for Posters: Thinking Qualitatively

Thinking Qualitatively June 20-24, 2011

Call for Posters – Deadline – March 7, 2011

The International Institute for Qualitative Methodology is pleased to announce that online submission of poster abstracts for the 11th Thinking Qualitatively (TQ) Workshop Series (June 20-24, 2011 at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada), is now available on our website at http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/tq2011.cfm.

This interdisciplinary educational series allows participants to engage with experts in qualitative inquiry and learn about specific methods, techniques and approaches to qualitative research. The academic program consists of five days of hands-on workshops on such topics as qualitative coding and categorization, participatory action research, discourse analysis, literature reviews, arts-based methods, poststructuralism in qualitative research, and much more! On Saturday June 25, TQ participants may also register for a separate NVivo Software training session.

This week-long event is aimed at participants from all academic disciplines and for individuals at all stages of their research career. Individuals conducting research in universities and colleges and/or professional settings (e.g., libraries; hospitals; government agencies) are welcome to attend. Some workshops are introductory sessions, while others will appeal to more experienced researchers. 

Thinking Qualitatively will include a conference keynote address (TBA), opportunities for networking with colleagues from around the world, and an interactive poster session for participants to get feedback on works-in-progress.

Call for Abstracts: Philosophical Dimensions of Sport and Environment

Students are invited to submit abstracts to be considered for presentation at the Sport and the Environment: Philosophical Dimensions conference. The conference will be held at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, between June 23 and June 25^th, 2011.

Abstracts are welcome on any area of environment and sport and physical activity, including education, history, sociology, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics and ethics, and from any theoretical approach. Papers focusing on the various environmental forces in sport and physical activity are encouraged. In addition to abstracts for papers, proposals for round table and panel discussions, including a tentative list of participants, are also welcome and should follow the same format as paper abstracts. Graduate students and emerging scholars are encouraged to participate and may submit works in progress.

Abstracts for presentations, and panel discussions should be 300-500 words long and must be received by January 24^th, 2011. The preferred mode of submission is by e-mail. Please send the abstract as an attachment, preferably in Word. Contributors, who do not have access to e-mail, should feel free to send a hard copy.

Please submit e-mail copies of abstracts to Conference Organizers, Charlene Weaving and Gabriela Tymowski, at:

cweaving@stfx.ca

tymowski@unb.ca

Knowledge Translation Conference

Knowledge Translation is becoming more and more important in research. It is a requirement of most funding agencies, with some even putting out calls for studies emphasizing knowledge translation. With this in mind the Knowledge Translation Conference is being held at the Marriott Hotel, River Cree, Edmonton on November 21-23.

Overview of the conference:
Knowledge transfer (KT) is about wanting to make a difference and do things better by ensuring that research is relevant, accessible and used to support decisions. Whether you’re a researcher, part of a research team, a health care practitioner, manager, knowledge broker, or a science entrepreneur, you are part of the knowledge transfer process. That process describes how new knowledge (innovate) moves between the producers and potential users (influence) and ultimately results in changes in policy and practice (integrate).

The 2010 RTNA conference will incorporate leading practices in KT and will bring together researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and KT specialists. It will be interactive and will encourage relationship building across disciplines; it will acknowledge the complexity of decision making; it will use storytelling and other effective means of moving knowledge; and it will provide an opportunity to learn about KT from experts and from each other. Come prepared to be challenged and energized as we innovate, influence, and integrate.


Early Bird Registration Early bird registration is available until November 5th, 2010. Visit http://www.ahfmr.ab.ca/rtna/conference10/ to register.

Student Pricing Come and network with leaders in Alberta’s health research and innovation landscape. Early-bird student registration for $78.75. Visit http://www.ahfmr.ab.ca/rtna/conference10/ to register. Dr. Thomas Kerr, B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.  Rahaf Harfoush, Digital Strategist

Upcoming conferences

There are a number of conferences coming up in the next few weeks, including SCAPPS, AASP, and NASSS. As always, the U of A is going to be well-represented by our students and we wish them the very best of luck with their presentations!! Please e-mail any photos you'd like to share with the faculty from these conferences (pergss@gmail.com). Also, if there are any other conferences coming up that you feel other students should know about or apply for, again, let us know!!!

Upcoming Sport Management conferences

For those of you working in the sport management field there are two important dates coming up for conferences:

1) North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM)The 2011 NASSM Conference will be held in London, Ontario from June 1 - 4, 2011. The Call for Papers is now available, as is the online submission of abstracts. The submission deadline is November 1, 2010 (11:59 PM PST). http://www.nassm.com/InfoAbout/Conference/CallForPapers2011

2) Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) - Tourism and Sport Management Track
Call for Papers for the 54th annual conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. The conference will be held from July 2nd to 5th, 2011 on the UQAM campus located in downtown Montréal. The conference theme is What Matters Most.