QualIT2005
QualIT2004
Panels
Gender and IT: The Big Picture
Many of the research findings confirm what has been found before, the more recent studies describe it better and point out that things have not changed much at all. Given this, what does all this mean? How do you see the future? What are the other things that cause lack of females in IT education and work? What is the relationship between lack of females and other trendsin the society, such as lack of interest of both sexes in IT studies? Has IT changed? If so how it has been changed? What is the IT industry? What role the recent federal and state governments’ initiatives play in this problem? Eg the programs that are for 'building Australian ICT skills'? What is the role of the programs that are promoting the awareness and attractiveness of IT as a career?
This panel is expected to be provocative and create discussion. Panelists have been asked to be as speculative as they wish, and suggest what could/would happen in the future.
Panel members:
Liisa von Hellens – Griffith University (chair)Sue Nielsen – Griffith University
Lyn Courtney – James Cook University
Carolyn Timms – James Cook University
Kay Fielden – UNITEC Institute of Technology, NZ
Julie Fisher – Monash University
Kaylene Clayton – Griffith University
Jenine Beekhuyzen – Griffith University
Big Project, Team Project – is this still Qualitative Research?
With new developments in method and technology, one of the most startling changes in qualitative methods is the growth of large-scale qualitative research projects. Increasingly accepted, even increasingly demanded, by funders, clients and supervisors, large projects now are regarded as normal, across all qualitative research academic disciplines, and extra-academic research. But qualitative projects were traditionally small, and traditionally conducted by one very focussed researcher. Have we lost touch with the roots of our method?
The panel members will in turn contribute experience on the following critical issues, with discussion of each:
o How does this trend alter the methods and the outcomes of research?
o Does it matter? If so, why?
o What appropriately can be scaled up, and what can’t be, in qualitative research?
o What new skills and methods are required for large projects?
o What tactics make teamwork work in qualitative context?
Panel members:
Lyn Richards – QSR Founder;Supriya Singh – RMIT,
Daniel Kaczynski – University of Western Florida.