30 Essential Skills for Qualitative Researcher

The Good Qualitative Researcher

This paper discusses what it means to be a good qualitative researcher. The aim is to deliberately blur the distinction between epistemic and ethical goodness by arguing that there is a close connection between being a good qualitative researcher in the epistemic and the ethical senses. First, the relation between researcher and researched is articulated as a power relation giving rise to certa...

Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network

Canada’s immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include: (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants, given the deterioration in labour market outcomes over the past several decades; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labour market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire t...

Researcher–researched relationship in qualitative research: Shifts in positions and researcher vulnerability

BACKGROUND The researcher role is highly debated in qualitative research. This article concerns the researcher-researched relationship. METHODS A group of health science researchers anchored in various qualitative research traditions gathered in reflective group discussions over a period of two years. RESULTS Efforts to establish an anti-authoritarian relationship between researcher and res...

Essential skills for middle school teachers

Seven Thinking Skills Essential for Learning