Quala Lab is a collaboratively-run working group that works to find connections between the open science movement and qualitative and mixed methods research. The group formed shortly after the the 2021 Virtual Unconference on Open Scholarship Practices in Education Research, where Rachel Renbarger and Lisa Ridgley led a session on using open science practices with non-quantitative studies. The group meets weekly to discuss ongoing projects, the philosophy of open science, and current events inside and outside of academia.
Members
Nicki Lisa Cole is a Senior Researcher in the Open and Reproducible Research Group at Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria. She is a sociologist with a research focus on issues of diversity, equality and equity in the transition to open research. Her approach to research is informed by feminist, racial and cultural theories and her practice is rooted in qualitative methods.
Cassandra Dinius is a postdoctoral researcher at Maynooth University in Maynooth, Ireland.
Sarahanne M. Field is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.
Tamarinde Haven is an assistant professor in research methodology for the social behavioral sciences at Tilburg University in The Netherlands.
Lindsay E. Lee is an assistant research professor at East Tennessee State University in Tennessee, the United States.
Hilary Lustick is an assistant professor of qualitative methods at University of Massachusetts Lowell in Massachusetts, the United States.
Melanie S. Meyer is a lecturer in learning and organizational change at Baylor University in Texas, the United States.
Melodi Özyaprak is an assistant professor at the Creativity and Change Leadership Department at Buffalo State University. Her research interests encompass creativity education and cognition, higher-order thinking skills, gifted education, mathematics education, and the identification of gifted children. Melodi’s interest in qualitative studies stems from her experiences in program evaluation and curriculum development.
Gjalt-Jorn Peters is an associate professor of theory, methodology and statistics at the psychology faculty of the Open University of the Netherlands. He started using qualitative methods from an epistemologically pragmatic behavior change perspective, and now likes to think about how to innovate qualitative methodology, how to ‘open science’ qualitative work, and how to leverage qualitative approaches in evidence synthesis.
Rachel Renbarger is a research associate at FHI 360 in North Carolina, the United States.
Anne Roberts is an assistant professor of education at Fisk University in Tennessee, the United States.
Laurel Standiford Reyes is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Southern Indiana in Indiana, the United States.
Sondra M. Stegenga is an assistant professor of special education at the University of Utah in Utah, the United States.
Crystal N. Steltenpohl is the training and education manager at the Center for Open Science and lives in Indiana, the United States. She uses mixed methods and is particularly interested in encouraging people in the open science movement to have deeper conversations about what transparency and rigor mean, who we are being transparent with, and what assumptions are embedded within our conceptions of rigor.
Gizem Solmaz-Ratzlaff works as a researcher at Learning System Institutes, Florida State University, and serves as an Ambassador for the Center for Open Science. She resides in Tallahassee, Florida. Gizem is enthusiastic about broadening the adoption of open science practices in educational research. She actively promotes this cause through various means, offering training sessions, workshops, and webinars at different institutions and events. Her research involves mixed methods, and she has published numerous psychometric reports, datasets, and replication codes together with her colleagues.
Szilvia Zörgő is a Marie Curie Fellow at Maastricht University and an Assistant Professor at Semmelweis University. Trained as a medical anthropologist, her research now focuses on human–information interaction in health-related subjects. Szilvia is also a methodologist interested in open qualitative and unified research, as well as open-source tool innovation.
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