QualLab Lunches

QualLab Lunches provide an excellent forum for world-renowned qualitative researchers to discuss social justice, equity, and innovation-related topics over the duration of a lunch hour. Scroll down to register or to find links to past lunches with award-winning faculty on important qualitative concepts.

Upcoming QualLab Lunches 

Fireside Chat about AI for Instructors of Qualitative Research (December 5, 2024; 12-1 p.m. EST): Click here to register

  • Dr. Ana-Paula Correia, Professor of Learning Technology, Department of Educational Studies & Director, Center on Education and Training for Employment, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 
  • Dr. Susan Iverson, Professor of Higher Education Leadership, Manhattanville University 
  • Dr. Detra M. Price, Executive Director, Center for Digital Learning and Innovation, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 
  • Ms. Casey Rinehart, Director, Distance Education and Learning Design, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 
  • Dr. Penny A. Pasque, Director of QualLab & Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs, Department of Educational Studies, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 

Black Gurl Reliable: Pedagogies of Vulnerablility and Transgression (March 27, 2025; 12-1 p.m. EST): Click here to learn more about the book:

  • Dr. Dominique Hill, Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Colgate University 

If you require accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact QualLab@osu.edu. Requests made 10 days prior to the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the college will make every effort to meet requests made after this date. A captioned recording of this program will be available within 7-10 business days following the event and posted to QualLab’s YouTube channelHave an idea? Let us know at QualLab@osu.edu.


Past QualLab Lunches

Summer & Fall 2024

Advancing Qualitative Inquiry Toward Methodological Inclusion: An AMI Book Panel (October 17, 2024): Click here to watch; Click here to learn more about the book:

  • Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya, Professor, School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education, College of Education, University of Florida 
  • Dr. Z Nicolazzo, Associate Professor of Trans* Studies in Education, Center for the Study of Higher Education, Department of Educational Policy Studies and Practice, College of Education, The University of Arizona 
  • Dr. Durell M. Callier, Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware 
  • Dr. Claudia García-Louis, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, College of Education and Human Development, University of Texas at San Antonio 
  • Dr. Dominique Hill, Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Colgate University 

World-Building, Method-Bending: Activist Approaches to Qualitative Research in this Moment and Beyond (June 26, 2024): Click here to watch

  • Dr. Wilson Kwamogi Okello, Assistant Professor of Education, Department of Education Policy Studies & Research Associate, Center for the Study of Higher Education, College of Education, Penn State University 
  • Dr. Michiko Hikida, Associate Professor of Reading and Literacy in Early and Middle Childhood Education & Language, Education, and Society, Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 
  • Dr. Leigh Patel, Professor, Department of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy, College of Education, University of Pittsburgh 
  • Dr. Pauline Lipman, Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, College of Education, University of Illinois Chicago 

Spring 2024

Learning to Escape: Noticing Knowing through (Mis)Reading and Recalibrating the Body in Play (April 18, 2024):  Click here to watch; Click here to view a list of reading recommendations

  • Speaker: Dr. Jon M. Wargo, Associate Professor, Marsal Family School of Education, The University of Michigan

Navigating the Paradox: Black Queer Revolutionary Selfhood and the Limits of ‘Diversity’ (March 21, 2024_: Click here to watch  

  • Dr. Leslie K. Morrow, Dean’s Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Educational Studies, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 

Unmanageable Subjects: Trans Childhoods and Civic Learning in the Elementary Classroom (January 18, 2024) 

  • Speaker: Dr. Harper Keenan, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, The University of British Columbia

Red, white, and black flyer promoting Dr. Jon Wargo's QualLab lunch lecture titled, " Learning to Escape: Noticing Knowing through (Mis)Reading and Recalibrating the Body in Play"

Fall 2023

SEAAster Scholars Collective: Advancing Critical Feminist Refugee Epistemologies in Qualitative Inquiry (October 9, 2023): Click here to watch

  • Dr. Jacqueline Mac, Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling and Higher Education, College of Education, Northern Illinois University 

On the Question of Blackness in Qualitative Inquiry (September 28, 2023): Click here to watch 

  • Dr. Wilson Kwamogi Okello, Assistant Professor of Education, Department of Education Policy Studies & Research Associate, Center for the Study of Higher Education, College of Education, Penn State University

Red, white, and black flyer promoting Dr. Wilson Okello's QualLab lunch lecture titled, "On the Question of Blackness in Qualitative Inquiry"

Spring 2023 

Centering Black Women in Research: A Black Feminist Autoethnography Journey (April 6, 2023): Click here to watch 

  • Dr. Kaleb L. Briscoe, Assistant Professor of High Education Leadership, Department of Counseling, Higher Education Leadership, Educational Psychology, and Foundations, College of Education, Mississippi State University 

Co-Learning and Co-Writing as Action Research: Community Wellbeing, Engaged Scholarship, and Creating Futures (March 2, 2023)

  • Dr. Edward St. John, Emeritus Professor of Education, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, Marsal Family School of Education, University of Michigan 

Not Weeping, Sharpening My Oyster Knife: Demarginizaling Intellectual Activism (February 2, 2023)

  • Dr. Venus Evans-Winters, Visiting Professor of Education, Department of Educational Studies, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University & Coordinator, Black Girls and Women’s Research Initiatives, African American Policy Forum 

Fall 2022

Exemplifying the Teaching of Our Elders: Utilizing Indigenous Methodologies in Qualitative Research (December 8, 2022): Click here to watch 

  • Dr. Corey Still, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Bacone College 

Creative, Relational, and Hesitant Methodologies for Qualitative Inquiry (November 3, 2022): Click here to watch 

  • Dr. Mirka Koro, Professor of Qualitative Research, Mary Lou Fulton Teacher’s College, Arizona State University 

IRBs and Research Site Anonymity as Methodological Interest Convergence (October 20, 2022): Click here to watch 

  • Dr. Michael W, Moses II, Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Qualitative Methods, College of Education, University of California, Riverside 

Accounting for a Colonial Past that Racializes LatinX as MestizXs in Qualitative Research (September 15, 2022): Click here to watch 

  • Dr. Claudia García-Louis, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, College of Education and Human Development, University of Texas at San Antonio 

Spring 2022

Policy Discourse Analysis from Feminist Poststructural Perspectives (January 27, 2022): Click here to watch 

  • Dr. Susan Iverson, Professor of Higher Education Leadership, Manhattanville University 
  • Dr. Elizabeth Allan, Professor of Higher Education, College of Education and Human Development, The University of Maine 

Decolonizing Qualitative Approaches: Lessons Learned from the Caribbean (March 3, 2022): Click here to watch 

  • Dr. Saran Stewart, Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs, Department of Educational Leadership & Director of Global Education, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut 

Grant Funded Research: Strategies to Address the Myth of “They Don’t Fund Qualitative Research” (March 31, 2022): Click here to watch; Click here to view the slide deck; Click here to view the list of qual-mixed grants by funder 

  • Dr. Kimberly Lightle, Director of Research and Administration, Office of Research, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 
  • Dr. Penny A. Pasque, Director of QualLab & Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs, Department of Educational Studies, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 

Grief Work Through Qualitative Research (April 14, 2022): Click here to watch 

  • Dr. Z Nicolazzo, Associate Professor of Trans* Studies in Education, Center for the Study of Higher Education, Department of Educational Policy Studies and Practice, College of Education, The University of Arizona

Fall 2021

The Quest for Methodology in Community Engaged Research (December 2, 2021): Click here to watch

  • Dr. Nimo Adbi, Assistant Professor of Multicultural & Equity Studies in Education, Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 

Intersectionality and Critical Qualitative Perspectives (Date: November 17, 2021): Click here to watch 

  • Dr. Katherine Clonan-Roy, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Foundations, School of Education and Counseling, Levin College of Public Affairs and Education, Cleveland State University 
  • Dr. Charlotte Jacobs, Director, Independent School Teaching Residency, Learning, Teaching, and Literacies Division, University of Pennsylvania 

Introduction to Transana (October 6, 2021): Click here to watch 

  • Dr. Brian Seilstad, Director of Internationalization and Partnerships, Office of International Programs, Al Akhawayn University (Morocco) 

Critical Qualitative Research: Radical and Post-Structural Feminism and the Quest for Gendered Justice (September 23, 2021): Click here to watch

  • Dr. Erynn Beaton, Associate Professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University  

Spring 2021 

Grant Funded Research: Strategies to Address the Myth of “They Don’t Fund Qualitative Research” (April 15, 2021): Click here to watch

  • Dr. Kimberly Lightle, Director of Research and Administration, Office of Research, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 
  • Dr. Penny A. Pasque, Director of QualLab & Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs, Department of Educational Studies, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 

Introduction to NVivo (March 24, 2021): Click here to watch

  • Dr. Rhodesia McMillian, Dean’s Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University  

Qualitative Research Ethics and Working with the IRB at OSU (February 18, 2021): Click here to watch 

  • Dr. Leslie Moore, Associate Professor of Foreign, Second, and Multilingual Language Education and Language, Education, and Society, Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 
  • Dr. Jackie Goodway, Professor of Kinesiology, Department of Human Sciences, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 

Self-Care for Qualitative Scholars Working with Traumatized Populations (January 27, 2021): Click here to watch 

  • Dr. Carmen McCallum, Associate Professor of Leadership and Counseling, College of Education, Eastern Michigan University

Fall 2020

Researching with Indigenous Methodologies (October 22, 2020): Click here to watch

  • Dr. Timothy San Pedro, Associate Professor of Multicultural and Equity Studies, Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 

Ethics in Qualitative Research (October 7, 2020): Click here to watch

  • Dr. Leslie Moore, Associate Professor of Foreign, Second, and Multilingual Language Education & Language, Education, and Society, Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 
  • Dr. Ann Allen, Associate Professor of Educational Policy, Department of Educational Studies, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University  
  • Dr. Weidong Li, Associate Professor of Kinesiology, Department of Human Sciences, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University 

Interrogating Whiteness as a Researcher (September 24, 2020): Click here to watch

  • Dr. Sara Childers, Director for Strategic Diversity Planning, Training, and Assessment, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, The Ohio State University

Researching the Importance of Black Male Athletes and Activism (September 8, 2020): Click here to watch

  • Dr. Kwame Agyemang, Associate Professor of Sport Management, Department of Human Sciences, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University