CCRI Research

A special issue on Creative-Relational Inquiry has been published in Departures in Critical Qualitative Research at @ucpress! This introduction by CCRI directors @JonGWyatt @RosieStenhouse & @MeasureHumanity take you to its history and its peoples. #AcWri online.ucpress.edu/dcqr/article/9…

One week left to submit your abstracts for the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, January 2025, in Edinburgh ecqi.hss.ed.ac.uk/en/

A course coming up soon you might be interested in! 'Autoethnographic Methods', a collaboration between Roskilde and Aalborg Universities, taught by (amongst others), the wonderful @TatianaChemi . More information on the flyer.

ECQI update! We received over 250 abstract sby yesterday’s deadline. There is space for more so we have re-opened for submissions until midnight (BST) on Monday 30 Sept. Please continue to send us your abstracts! ecqi.hss.ed.ac.uk/en/

Register now for January's ECQI! - 'Hope, Humility and Playfulness in a Precarious World'. See 10 preconf workshops and info on three wonderful keynotes, incl. @arkotong and @eddierddd plus keep sending abstracts! Deadline 2 September test.conference.is.ed.ac.uk - ECQI2025

A nudge about the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in January. Come and join us! The call for abstracts is open until Monday 2 September - 43 days to go. edinburghuni.eventsair.com/ecqi/

The European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry is taking shape! We've added updates about both the keynotes and workshops and are welcoming your abstracts for papers, panels, posters, game changers and dream teams. Keep them coming! (Deadline end of August) edinburghuni.eventsair.com/ecqi

Regular visitor to CCRI, Abigail Jareño, is back in town and performing on Monday (and giving a seminar on 'psychobiography' tomorrow!). linkedin.com/in/abigail-jar…

Friday evening 7 June, in Glasgow and online - an evening filled with thought-provoking discussions and engaging readings about dying, death, grief and loss - symposium celebrating the members of the DeathWrites Network writers: tickettailor.com/events/deathwr…

European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, January 2025, Edinburgh, hosted by CCRI: Call for abstracts now open! (edinburghuni.eventsair.com/ecqi)

@TatianaChemi will do 2 in-person events here on Thurs 30 May: “Lost in grief: The vitalistic ecology of death” - a performance autoethnography, 2pm-3.30pm - and a seminar, "Breakfast, love and freedom. Hope-full visions. Care-full actions", 4pm-5.45pm. Email ccri-info@ed.ac.uk

CCRI will be hosting the 2025 European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, "Qualitative Inquiry: Hope, Humility and Playfulness in a Precarious World", Tuesday 7 January – Friday 10 January, Edinburgh. Save the dates! Website live at the end of April, call for abstracts open 20 May.

April's First Thursday seminar is this week! "What does being ‘relational’ in therapy mean?" with Linda Finlay, in person and via Zoom, Thursday 4 April, 4.30pm-5.45pm. Join us if you can! ed.ac.uk/health/events/…

If you've published a book in 2022 or 2023 - or read one you've loved that's been published then - go on, nominate it for the 2024 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Book Award. Deadline for nominations 24 November. Please share. icqi.org/qualitative-bo…

"Telling Difficult Stories: Posthuman Postgraduate Research in Times of Crises" - 16 June - "a creative, affirmative event for strengthening and embracing the posthuman postgraduate research community in the UK". britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…

The call for papers for the 2024 European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry is now out. Let's go! helsinki.fi/en/conferences…

First Thursday seminar, 4 May, 4.30pm-5.45pm: "Stories from the edge: haunting, slow death, and the cruel optimism of suicide prevention", with @DrAmyChandler, both in person and live online; and we'll record. We hope you can join us! eventbrite.co.uk/e/620866076147

Miltos Hadjiosif's First Thursday seminar tomorrow (Thursday 6 April), in person and live online (no recording), 4.30pm-5.45pm UK time: 'Seduction, resistance and the value of the ‘Anvil’: Finding my way into autoethnography'. Join us if you can! eventbrite.co.uk/e/596886572807

The author copies of my book have arrived! Thanks to all who have supported this project! Written in Edinburgh, Salford, Mexico City, and other locations over the past few years. Fancy some champagne? *Art by the fab Eleonora Scalise. @Routledge_RM @CCRIEdinburgh @UofScounselling

A big shout-out for @marisadeandrade for this international award success

Miltos Hadjiosif's First Thursday seminar, in person and live online (no recording), coming up on Thursday 6 April, 4.30pm-5.45pm: 'Seduction, resistance and the value of the ‘Anvil’: Finding my way into autoethnography'. Hope you can join us! eventbrite.co.uk/e/596886572807