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With a vibrant international intellectual footprint, wide diaspora of trainees and colleagues, and a history of theory-informed innovation in critical qualitative health research, the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research (CQ) at the University of Toronto is celebrating its 10th anniversary. We have much to celebrate and build on! In addition to the CQ diaspora, […]

The Qualitative Analysis Conference (“The Qualitatives”) will be held June 21-23, 2021 in a virtual format. The conference theme is Conceptualizing Theory: Analytic Practices in Qualitative Research. Submit an abstract at www.qualitatives.ca/submit-abstract. The submission deadline is March 1, 2021. If you have questions, please contact thequalitatives@gmail.com. See below for more details from the organizers on this year’s conference! […]

The course timetable for CQ’s Winter 2021 shared curriculum is now available! Please refer to your departmental registrar for course enrolment and drop dates. Students interested in taking courses outside their home department can view enrolment instructions here. The full curriculum, including potential student pathways through the curriculum, can be viewed here.

Applications to our 2020-21 CQ Eakin Award for Methodological Excellence are now open! Please see our awards page for more details on the award, eligibility, and the application requirements. Deadline to apply is December 10, 2020.

Thank you to everyone who attended this event! The recording is now available on our YouTube channel here. On Friday, September 25, from 12-1:30 PM, Dr. Sarah Elton presented her doctoral dissertation research in CQ’s first online seminar. There was a 1-hour presentation and moderated discussion, followed by a 30-minute informal chat with the presenter. […]

“Much qualitative research produces little new knowledge. We argue that this is largely due to deficits of analysis”.  Joan Eakin (former founding director of CQ) and Brenda Gladstone (current CQ director) discuss how to exploit the distinctive powers of insight of qualitative methodology, beyond cataloguing data into pre-existing concepts and scouting for themes in a new article, […]