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About
the Institute:
The International Institute
for Qualitative Inquiry is a multidisciplinary institute at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The center's primary goals
are several-fold:
- To facilitate the development
of qualitative research methods across a wide variety of academic
desciplines;
- To demonstrate the
promise of qualitative inquiry as a form of democratic practice,
to show how qualitative inquiry can be used to directly engage pressing
social issues at the level of local, state, national and global
communities;
- To provide leadership
to address the main issues in qualitative inquiry;
- To promote excellence
in qualitative research through education, research and publication
in the scholarly journals Qualitative Inquiry, Cultural Studies/Critical
Methodologies, and International Review of Qualitative Inquiry;
- To provide a forum for
collaboration among international experts in the field of qualitative
inquiry;
- To facilitate interdisciplinary
graduate education and training in the field of qualitative inquiry;
- To facilitate interaction
in the international community of qualitative inquiry by building
relationships with collaborative Sites..
To these ends, the Institute
will:
- Host one international
congress per year. A workshop series is held in conjunction with
each annual congress;
- Facilitate an on-going
visiting international scholar lecture series;
- Conduct the annual
"Illinois Qualitative Disserration Award";
- Establish a pre-doctoral
research training program in qualitative inquiry;
- Establish a postdoctoral
visiting scholar program in qualitative inquiry;
- Work with the International
Association of Qualitative Inquiry.
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