The Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (SQIP), a subdivision of APA Div. 5, is very excited to be launching our “Conversations with Distinguished Researchers” series, a new initiative directed by student members of SQIP. This series of podcasts and webinars features interviews with qualitative researchers about specific qualitative methods, their philosophies and the realities of their application and implementation. Graduate students and early career professionals (ECP) with interest and curiosity about these methods are invited to conduct an interview with a distinguished researcher who has pioneered or been actively involved in a particular qualitative approach. The interviews are then uploaded to our websiteopens in new window.
In the first installment of the series, now available on our website, Zenobia Morrill interviews Michelle Fine about critical participatory action research (CPAR). Zenobia Morrill, a third-year doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Boston, is the student representative to the SQIP Executive Board.
Michelle Fine is a distinguished professor of critical psychology, women's studies and urban education at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). The work she has done alongside Muslim American youth; school pushouts; New Jersey students researching the racial/class/disability impact of high-stakes testing; the impact of college on women in prison (and then out); the children of women and men in prison; the consequences of restorative justice in schools and beyond; the struggles and gifts of foster youth at CUNY; young women with disabilities navigating academia and activism; and LGBTQ youth of color, has received national and international recognition.
In their conversation, Fine discusses her personal history and influences that have shaped her research pursuits. She elaborates the primary commitments of CPAR, the epistemologies that guide it, methodological pluralism and the trials and challenges she has faced in her endeavor to inclusively engage collaboration.
To download and share these interviews, please visit our websiteopens in new window. And stay tuned: upcoming episodes feature Qualitative Psychology Editor Ruthellen Josselson, and Amedeo Giorgi, pioneer of the phenomenological method in psychology research.