Meetings

First Meeting

The first meeting of the new AFAANZ SIG QualRAN - Qualitative Researchers in Accounting Network - was held prior to the commencement of the AFAANZ conference in Sydney on Sunday 6th July 2008. The officers elected were Chair: Paul Collier (Monash); Vice-Chair Deryl Northcott (Auckland University of Technology) and Secretary Ralph Kober (Monash).

Discussions were led by Kerry Jacobs (ANU) on research training and research supervision and James Guthrie (Sydney) on publishing qualitative research. It was agreed that QualRAN would adopt a facilitative model, making members aware of various workshops and courses, conferences, journal special issues, grants, overseas visitors, etc. of interest to qualitative researchers, rather than duplicate those offerings. A membership list, along with an indication of members’ research interests, will be circulated to all members to facilitate collaborative research and mentoring. The SIG would also carry out a short survey of its members to determine their research interests, the qualitative research training needs of members and their PhD students, and what is currently being taught at their universities.

The full minutes are available for download  (pdf, 92k)

Second Meeting

The next QualRAN meeting will be at the AFAANZ conference in Adelaide. The SIG will meet for a half day, Sunday 5th July 2009 morning, prior to the conference commencement, which will allow members to attend other SIG meetings held on the Saturday. The meeting will combine research methods presentations with discussant-led presentations of members’ papers (following the APIRA model).