The Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods
CQRM promotes the development, dissemination, and use of qualitative research methods in the social sciences. Our activities include an annual training institute (IQMR), which has been attended (to date)
by well over two thousand graduate students and faculty.
The Institute is partly funded by the
National Science Foundation.
The Institute is held at the same
time as a related authors' workshop, the Research Group on Qualitative and Multi-Method Analysis. While the Institute focuses on disseminating research skills, the authors' workshop encourages the development of qualitative and multi-method research techniques.
Universities from which member Centers,
Departments or Institutes nominated participants in one or more years from 2017
through 2019 included: Aarhus University; American University; Arizona
State University; University of Arizona; Australian National University; Bergen
University; Boston College; Boston University; Brandeis University; University
of British Columbia; Brown University; University of California, Berkeley; University
of California, Davis; University of California, Irvine; University of
California, Riverside; University of California, San Diego; University of
California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Santa Cruz; University of
Cambridge; University of Chicago; University of Cincinnati; University of
Connecticut; Colorado State University; Columbia University; Cornell
University; University of Delaware; University of Denver; Duke University; École
nationale d'administration publique; University of Florida; Peace Research
Institute, Frankfurt; George Mason University; George Washington University;
Georgetown University; Harvard University; University of Hawaii; Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology; Indiana University; Johns Hopkins; Johns
Hopkins SAIS; King’s College, London; Universite Laval; London School of
Economics; University of London; University of Maryland; Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; McGill University; Michigan State University; National
University of Singapore; University of New Mexico; New School for Social
Research; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Northwestern University;
University of Notre Dame; Ohio State University; University of Oklahoma; University
of Oregon; University of Oxford; University of Pittsburgh; Princeton
University; Purdue University; Queen's University; Rutgers University; University
of Southern California; University of Southern Denmark; Stanford University; Syracuse
University; Temple University; University of Texas; University of Toronto;
Tufts University; University of Utah; University of Virginia; University of
Washington; Western Michigan University; University of Wisconsin; and Yale
University.
While the consortium's mission is to promote qualitative methods, we proceed from the position that to produce policy-relevant knowledge, the social sciences should employ the full range of available complementary qualitative, statistical and formal methods.
Our concern is that very few leading research universities offer graduate-level qualitative methods courses and even fewer require them. As a consequence, the social sciences are failing to take advantage of recent advances in qualitative methods,
and in the long run risk losing an important component of their methodological heterogeneity.