Program
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November 30 (Thursday), 2023
12:00pm-1:00pm
Registration
1:00pm-1:30pm
Welcome address
Prof Peter Wong
Acting Dean of the School of Property, Construction, and Project Management, RMIT U.
1:30pm-3:30pm
Q methodology workshop
Prof Steven Brown (Kent State U.) *online
3:30pm-4:00pm
Break
4:00pm-5:00pm
Roundtable on interdisciplinary applications of Q methodology
Facilitated by Renata Aliani (UoM)
Des Pidgeon (mathematics, U. of Central QLD), Ethel Villafranca (museum and collections, UoM), Jayne Lysk (medical education, UoM), Shaun Kemp (language education policies, Melbourne High School)
December 1 (Friday), 2023
8:30am-9:00am
Registration
9:00am-9:15am
Welcome address (chair: Renata Aliani)
Prof Steven Brown (Kent State U.) *online
10:00am-10:15pm
Break
10:15am-11:45am
Concurrent sessions (20 min. presentations + 10 min. Q&A)
Concurrent Session A
(online presenters)
Chair: Michelle Turner (RMIT U.)
Mapping Q-Methodology Research in Applied Linguistics (Nicola Morea, U. of Reading; Hessameddin Ghanbar, Islamic Azad U.)
Piloting the use of Q methodology to explore the roles vocational subject teachers play in the sixth form university advice process (Alison Etches, U. of Wolverhampton)
Adopting Q-methodology for defining Information Systems design requirements (Poyuan Jahanbin, Stephen Wingreen, U. of Canterbury)
Concurrent Session B
(online presenters)
Chair: Shaun Kemp (Melbourne High School)
How may Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Q Methodology Facilitate Research on Cyberbullying – Methodological Considerations (Martyna Onyszko, U. of Stavanger)
Candidate perspectives about technology infusion in their teacher education preparation program (Jon Clausen, Ball State U.; Arlene Borthwick, National Louis U.; & David Rutledge, New Mexico State U.)
11:45am-12:45pm
Lunch
12:45pm-14:15pm
Concurrent sessions (20 min. presentations + 10 min. Q&A)
Concurrent Session C
(in-person, online broadcast)
Chair: Nicola Fraschini (U. of Melbourne)
A longitudinal Q study to assess changes in senior management decision priorities at the time of crisis (Amitrajit Sarkar, Ara Institute of Canterbury; Stephen Wingreen, U. of Canterbury)
A Q-Study about Learning Value: Student’s Viewpoints about Learning Strategy with Business Games (Florin Vladica, U. of Doha for Science and Technology; Szymon Zylinski, U. of Warmia and Mazury; Charles H. Davis, Toronto Metropolitan U.)
The study of us (Miku Lenentine, U. of Hawaii; Renata Aliani, UoM; Stephanie Marder, Kent State U; Seth Harkins, National Louis U.)
Concurrent Session D
(online presenters)
Chair: Wayne Stanley Rice (National U. of Singapore)
Experiencing nonprofits in Vietnam: A Q methodology study (Dana Doan, Indiana U.)
Viewpoints of Cybersecurity Examining the Utility of Q Methodology for the Analysis of Cultural Milieu in Behavior Science (Rita Olla, Ramona A. Houmanfar, Shamik Sengupta, Emily Hand, U. of Nevada, Reno)
Investigating changes in pre-service CFL teachers’ mindsets about teaching competencies through longitudinal Q research (Chengwen Yuan, Beijing Foreign Studies U.)
14:15pm-14:45pm
Break
14:45pm-15:15pm
Plenary talk (Chair: Nicola Fraschini)
Addressing Q-Sorting challenges
Prof Amanda Wolf (Victoria U. of Wellington)
15:15pm-16:45pm
Concurrent sessions (20 min. presentations + 10 min. Q&A)
Concurrent Session E
(online presenters)
Chair: Chengwen Yuan (Beijing Foreign Studies U.)
…that’s why Learning Opportunity is 'difficult’ to achieve for Indigenous/Tribal/Minority (ITM) girls (Uma Chimirala, Nalsar U. of Law)
Discoursive representation in deliberative minipublics: the Role of Q method (Simon Niemeyer, U. of Canberra)
Integrating Q-methodology into a Delphi Study (Fern Sakamoto, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies)
Concurrent Session F
(in-person, online broadcast)
Chair: Renata Aliani (U. of Melbourne)
Exoskeletons in your service: Using visual Q-methodology to explore Augmented Social Presence (James Tarbit, Jospehine Previte, & Nicole Hartley, U. of Queensland)
Transient Subjectivity Measurement Framework: An Extension to the Q-methodology Application (Adil Bilal, UoM; & Stephen Wingreen, U. of Canterbury)
Q-methodology for Screen-based Entertainment; Implications for its Use with Blind and Partially-sighted Persons (Florin Vladica, U. of Doha for Science and Technology)
16:45pm-17:00pm
Concluding remarks
Michelle Turner (RMIT U.)