Course Description
Are you navigating the complexities of qualitative research and looking for ways to enhance transparency and rigor? This workshop aims to provide a practical guide to designing, conducting, and reporting qualitative studies with a strong emphasis on openness.
We’ll cover:
- Approaching a qualitative study – Making choices that align with your research needs and philosophy of science
- Setting up your study – Designing studies with transparency and reproducibility in mind
- Preregistering qualitative research – Strategies for planning and documenting analytical decisions
- Reflexivity in open science – Navigating researcher positionality
- Interpretation and reporting – Balancing rich, contextualized insights with reproducibility
We’ll also explore key challenges in open qualitative data, including ethical concerns, participant privacy, and tensions between openness and contextual integrity.
This workshop is geared towards researchers in the social and behavioural sciences who want to integrate open science principles into qualitative work without compromising depth and nuance.
Prerequisites
The skill level of the intended participant is beginner/novice (we will be starting together ‘from scratch’, essentially), but there are interesting discussions to be had for more experienced qualitative researchers interested in the challenges of open qualitative research in the second part of the workshop. We will use Atlas.ti (the free trial browser-based version) in the workshop. If you have your own qualitative dataset, bring it along so you can practice on it. If not (which will be the case for many of you), no worries - toy qualitative datasets will also be provided, which you can use to practice on.
Capacity
This course has a maximum capacity of 40 participants.
Time and Location
This workshop will be held on-site only at Eindhoven University of Technologyon April 11, 2025. Details will be provided to all attendees over email after registration for the workshop.
Workshops start from 9:30 to 16:30 with a lunch break from 12:30 to 13:30. Lunch will not be provided but can be purchased at the university canteen or the on-campus supermarket.
Registration
To register for this workshop, please complete the following form by March 22nd. Your registration will be considered finalized only after you receive a confirmation email. The registration link will remain open after this date if spots are still available. Registration Form
Instructors
Dr. Sarahanne Field
Sarahanne Field is an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. She specializes in science reform, metascience, and open science. Her research explores the practices, philosophy, and behavior of the science reform community, with past work including an ethnography and network analysis of this movement. She is also involved in responsible research and innovation (RRI), examining responsible research conduct across disciplines. She also serves as a section editor for the Journal of Trial and Error, an action editor for Collabra: Psychology, and co-hosts the Open Update Podcast for Liberate Science.