QRM 2025 PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

We are excited to offer the four pre-conference workshops. The workshops will run on April 15, 2025. The workshops are free, but please pre-register at qrmconf@gmail.com by April 4, 2025 so we can provide a list of attendees to the workshop presenters.

Interviewing Beyond Words—Paper Development Workshop

Luciara Nardon, Amrita Hari, and Sasha Valgardsson,
Carleton University, Canada
9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

This workshop seeks to support submission to the Special Collection entitled “Interviewing beyond Words: Exploring Multimodal Approaches for Enhancing Sensemaking” for the International Journal of Qualitative Methods by providing a venue to learn more about the call and receive feedback from workshop participants and the guest editors.

QRM gatherings are an opportunity to engage with like-minded scholars who are pushing the foundations and limits of traditional management theories, methodologies, and pedagogies. In this vein, this pre-conference workshop and special collection seeks to reimagine the potential of interviews to facilitate sensemaking and communication in management and organizational research.

Interviews support and influence participants’ sensemaking, have therapeutic effects, encourage reflexivity, and make new understandings possible. Typically, interview data relies on speech that is transcribed for analysis despite the inherently multimodal nature of thinking and communication. Theories of multimodality recognize that speech and text alone are inadequate in accounting for meaning. In this special collection, we are interested in contributions that explore a variety of interview techniques that fulfill different communicative needs to facilitate sensemaking and reflection, including but not limited to metaphor elicitation, photo-elicitation, arts-based methods, and use of artifacts. We believe that multimodal data collection and analysis through interviews can enhance the richness of data gathered, account for participants’ accessibility needs, and counter linguicism.

Participants should submit a short proposal (no more than 1,000 words) by Monday 6 January 2025 via email to luciara.nardon@carleton.ca and include the subject line: Interviewing Beyond Words – QRM PDW.

The workshop will be held on Tuesday, 15 April 2025 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Please note that the short proposal submission for this pre-conference workshop is separate from the submission of extended abstracts to the conference provided here: https://www.qrmconf.org

Bios:

Luciara Nardon is a Professor of International Business at the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University. Luciara’s research explores cultural and cognitive influences on work in multicultural environments using qualitative methods. She has been funded for multiple projects by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and has published several books and academic articles in prestigious journals. Luciara is engaged in developing, applying and teaching reflective interview approaches that are supportive of research participants and generate rich insights for researchers.

Amrita Hari is Director and Associate Professor in the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University. She examines the reproduction of gender, race, and class hierarchies in global migration policies, including the intersectional identities of and acts of resistance by migrants, focusing on Canada. She teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on anti-racist and decolonial research methods, and her collaborative work with Professor Nardon includes re-imagining social research to support and empower participants.

Sasha Valgardsson is a doctoral student pursuing a Ph.D. in Management, with a specialization in International Management, at the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University. Sasha’s research explores topics related to multiculturality using qualitative research methods rooted in reflexivity and creativity. Her work is driven by a desire to explore how cultural and cognitive influences may lead to fostering openness and belonging in multicultural environments.