The QualLab Graduate Student Board (GSB) was an organic, graduate student-led group fostering meaningful engagement with the qualitative research process from theory to practice from 2020-2024.
GSB’s research projects were supported by the Office of Research, Innovation, & Collaboration, as well as two Research & Implementation Grants (Level 1 & 2) from the Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching & Learning.
Part II of the research project employed a critical inquiry paradigm to explore the significance of equity and social justice in teaching qualitative methodologies and methods to graduate students. GSB members conducted a two-year inquiry into the research apprenticeship experience, including the stages of student-led conceptualization, data collection, analysis, international conference presentation, and publication. The study investigated the experiences of the faculty and students as well as the responsibilities of the institution against the backdrop of historical and contemporary pandemics. The Graduate Research Apprenticeship Nested Design Pathway is presented as a tool that institutions worldwide can adapt and implement to serve the complex needs of their students. See below for the publication and conference presentations from Part II of the research project.
- Pittman, A., Delarosa, M., Pasque, P. A., Kim, M. J., & Smith, S. J. (2024). Teaching, learning, and praxis: A critical inquiry on graduate student research apprenticeship opportunities in qualitative research. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2024.180107
- Pittman, A., Dellarosa, M., Kim, M. J., Pasque, P. A. (May, 2022, virtual). A critical advocacy inquiry on qualitative research, teaching, learning and doing [Conference presentation]. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champagne, IL. (See students presenting at ICQI with other presenters during the session also on the screen (who agreed to the photo).)
- The team also presented at the Research Forum, College of Education and Human Ecology (Spring ‘2022).
For Part I of the research project, GSB members crafted their own collaborative scholarly personal narrative (SPN) study, which is from a postmodern perspective and focuses on the reality that “we see what we believe; we observe what we narrate; we transform what we reframe” (Nash, 2004, p. 45). This project invited GSB members to reflect through various mediums on their experiences with the multiple pandemics of COVID, institutionalized racism, and white supremacy as well as how they have worked and continue to work toward transformative change as they reframed their own understandings of qualitative “space”. See below for the publication and conference presentation (with a picture of the team) from Part I of the research project.
- Combs, L. D., Dellarosa, M., Kim, M. J., Pittman, A. G. J., Gilbert, C., Smith, S. J., Smith, T., Valley, S. N., & Pasque, P. A. (2021). Radical interrelated qualitative space in the midst of multipandemics: A collaborative scholarly personal narrative. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 21(6), 509-520. https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086211044827
- Gilbert, C., Combs, L., Dellarosa, M., Kim, M. J., Pittman, A., Smith, S., Smith, T., Valley, S. & Pasque, P. A. (May, 2022, virtual). Cultivating a collaborative scholarly personal narrative: Creating qualitative space in the midst of multi-pandemics [Conference presentation]. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champagne, IL. (See the full GSB research team below.)
Below are pictures from the GSB publication party:
