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.
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, inclusion, and academic freedom
… to advancing qualitative inquiry toward innovation and justice
…to support critical, decolonial, anti-racist, equity, and social justice inquiry perspectives toward 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
Land Acknowledgement
We support the Land Acknowledgement developed by The Ohio State University Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Find the full statement here. We, the QualLab research center, acknowledge central Ohio as the traditional homeland of the Shawnee Nation, Miami, Wyandotte and multiple Indigenous nations who have strong ties to these lands. Today, individuals from a broad range of Indigenous backgrounds call Columbus and central Ohio home. There is a long history of violent and harmful research on (not with) Indigenous communities and, while some of this continues today, QualLab is dedicated to educating scholars on working collaboratively with Indigenous communities, if invited. We are committed to go beyond “do no harm.”