ABSTRACT:

The motivation to develop QualNotes originated from the desire to undertake, collaborate and better coordinate the collection of qualitative data on the digital device most researchers and students already have with them – their smartphone. QualNotes also provides secure ethics and project management and integrates three methods of qualitative research to collect data – mobile mapping, interviews with interview guides and participant observation.
 
In this workshop, I introduce QualNotes with worked examples of the creation and then use of interview guides, and also the participation observation function.  I provide the context behind the App’s cross-disciplinary collaboration, and how this collaborative underpinning is built into the App’s team function too. To download the App prior to the workshop please see the website www.qualnotes.com for the direct links to the AppStore and GooglePlay.

Ahead of the seminar it would be great if you could download the App as I have integrated some collaborative exercises into the seminar.
Head to www.qualnotes.com and/or follow the links to the Google Play Store, and the Apple App store in iOS, search for ‘QualNote’.

BIO:

Danielle Drozdzewski is Associate Professor in Human Geography. I specialise in the interactions of people and place, with specific expertise in memory, identity and migration. My overarching research theme is the examination of the geographies of remembrance. I investigate how memories of culture and of place are integral to the formation and maintenance of identities, from the personal to the supranational. Allied to these investigations is the study of migration, through which I have focused on what motivates people to move, the outcomes of such mobilities, to better understand interactions between people and places.  I investigate these themes using qualititative methods. She is Editor-in-Chief of Emotions, Space and Society.