Consortium for Qualitative Research Methods
May 16, 2003
CQRM formed to promote the teaching and use of qualitative research methods in the social sciences. Our activities include an annual training institute, where leading scholars will teach advanced qualitative methods to about twenty-five graduate students and junior faculty.
The Consortium presently has its headquarters at Arizona State University. CQRM's members include departments, centers and/or institutes across the US.
While the Consortium seeks to promote qualitative methods, we proceed from the position that to produce policy-relevant knowledge, the social sciences should employ the full range of available complementary qualitative, statistical and formal methods. Very few leading research universities offer graduate-level qualitative methods courses and even fewer require them. As a consequence, the social sciences have failed to take advantage of recent advances in qualitative methods, and in the long run risk losing an important component of their methodological heterogeneity.
Link: http://www.asu.edu/clas/polisci/cqrm/ [ HTML]
Keywords: qualitative, research, methodology, political science