Center for Qualitative Psychology

Participants at the XI Workshop of the Center for Qualitative Psychology

The Center for Qualitative Psychology was created at the University of Tübingen by the department of educational psychology in October 1999 to support the Qualitative research in psychology and other social sciences as education, sociology, philosophy, medicine, ethnography, politics,etc.

Purpose

The Center for Qualitative Psychology is a non-profit association that promote an international perspective network in social sciences and especially in psychology. Researchers from related fields as education, sociology, philosophy, medicine, ethnography, politics, etc. meet in this centre to support all kind of scientific methodologies combining epistemological perspectives, strategies, and instruments.

Annual meetings

Every year, the centre organizes a workshop about a specific topic and in a different place:

• 2000: Qualitative Research in Psychology, in Blaubeuren, Germany.
• 2001: The role of the researcher in qualitative psychology, in Blaubeuren, Germany.
• 2002: Research Questions and Matching Methods of Analysis, in Perlora, Spain.
• 2003: Research Design, in Blaubeuren, Germany.
• 2004: Questions on generalization, Austria.
• 2006: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Learning and Instruction, Riga, Latvia.
• 2008: Importance of qualitative approaches in psychology, in Erkner/Berlin, Germany.
• 2009: Epistemology and epistemological approaches, in Oulu, Finland.
• 2010: The values in qualitative research, in Sassari, Italy.
• 2011: Qualitative Research in Attention to Diversity, in Heidelberg, Germany.
• 2012: Building bridges, in Israel at the Achva Academic College of Education.
• 2013: XIV Workshop of Qualitative Research in Psychology (2013) with the topic: “Conflicts in qualitative research” will take place from May 17th until 19th 2013 in Spain at the University of Jaén.

Publications

The centre publishes proceedings with the main contributions presented at the annual meeting. All published workshop are available at the PsyDok (Volltextserver der Virtuellen Fachbibliothek Psychologie)[1].

See also

• Qualitative psychological research
• Qualitative research
• Qualitative methods
• Psychology
• Observation
• Introspection
• Narratives
• Discussion groups
• Interviews
• Computer assisted qualitative data analysis software

References

• Lyons, E. & Coyle, A. (2007) Analysing qualitative data in psychology. London: Sage.
• Richardson, J. T. E. (1996, Ed.) Handbook of qualitative research methods for psychology and the social sciences. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Smith, J. A. (2008) Qualitative Psychology: A Practical Guide to Research Methods. London: Sage.

External links

• Official webpage: [2]
• Charter of the Center for Qualitative Psychology:[3]
• XIV Workshop of Qualitative Research in Psychology (2013): [4]
• Publications of the Center for Qualitative Psychology: [5]
• What is Qualitative Research?: [6]
• Forum: Qualitative Social Research [7]