QualLab Mission Statement
The QualLab is a research center that fosters capacity building of faculty, policy makers, post-docs, researchers, practitioners, and graduate students across fields & disciplines. We strive to be an inter/national virtual community for advancing qualitative inquiry, methodologies, and methods with a focus on “rigor” or “quality” based on a researcher’s own paradigmatic approach. We think all research should make a difference with/to communities, institutions, policies, and – in turn – the world.
The QualLab Purpose-Driven Vision Statement is:
… To support the capacity building of qualitative and mixed methods faculty, post-docs, researchers, policy researchers, practitioners, graduate students, and beyond [all welcome]
… To cultivate advanced qualitative research designs
… To speak to multiple paradigms across social sciences, natural sciences, & humanities
… To create a space of innovation, an ethic of care, and support academic freedom
… To advancing qualitative inquiry toward innovation and justice
… To support multiple critical, decolonial, post-structural, and social justice inquiry perspectives toward the serving the public good
… To provide 1-1 consultations via grants and contracts
… To intentionally integrate the “lab” language to reflect experimentation and learning
… To offer open access resources to our virtual communities
Ohio State’s Ban on Land Acknowledgements and IRB’s “Doing No Harm”
We would often provide a Land Acknowledgement on our page, yet post SB1 – a policy that passed in the Ohio Legislature – The Ohio State University leadership has stated we “may not issue” a statement, such as Land Acknowledgements. Find the full statement here. As such, we do not offer one here. That said, as researchers, we are committed to the Institutional Review Board’s approach to “Do No Harm” to communities, and encourage researchers to think beyond “do no harm” throughout a research design (including distribution of research findings to/with communities).