Plenary Sessions
| The nature of spatial data and issues for socio-economic analysis and visualization | Stimson Slides 1 Stimson Slides 2 |
| Robert John Stimson |
| Social Media Network Analysis | Ackland Slides PDF Alexander Slides PDF |
| Robert Ackland, Malcolm Alexander |
| Qualitative Data Archiving: Opportunities for Data Sharing among the Qualitative Community | Cheshire Slides PDF |
| Lynda Anne Cheshire |
National Church Survey
| Innovative approaches to data dissemination and visualisation for non-statistical audiences | |
| Chris Simpson |
Growing Up in Australia, the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC)
| LSAC - Evolution of data collection modes | |
| Joanne Corey, Kathryn McGrouther |
Data Archiving and Research Infrastructure
| Grid computing for social science researchers: Where are we and where can we go? | |
| Lyndon Walker |
| The New Zealand Data Service: A Multi-Purpose Platform for Professional Social Science. | |
| Gerard Anthony Cotterell, Martin Von Randow |
| Respect, Trust and Engagement: the Broader Implications of Creating an Australian Indigenous Data Archive | |
| Gabrielle Gardiner, Alex Byrne, Kirsten Thorpe, Elizabeth Mulhollann |
Doing Sensitive Research
| 'Sometimes I think I would be better at this if I was a robot': Qualitative research as emotion work. | |
| Virginia A Dickson-Swift |
| Doing research with Aboriginal women: The impact of whitness | |
| Margot Rawsthorne |
| Tears across cultures: Experiences from the 2003 Canberra Bushfire and the 2004 tsunami in Aceh | |
| Theresia Citraningtyas, Katherine Lepani, Beverley Raphael |
| Conducting Sensitive Research with Adolescents | |
| Spring Chenoa Cooper Robbins, Kate Steinbeck, S. Rachel Skinner, Margot Rawsthorne, Karen Paxton, Catherine Hawke |
Interviewing Individuals and Groups
| Using graphic-elicitation to enhance interviews with farmers sceptical of climate-change | |
| Geoff Kuehne |
| 'Be our guest': Exploring the challenges and benefits of facilitating conversations with people within a family group (or who share a close social connection) as form of data collection for qualitative research about infant feeding and early parenting. | |
| Judith Ellen Reid, Virginia Schmied, Jennifer Fenwick, Athena Sheehan |
| Research insights about the use of observation as a method for investigating skilled-migrants to Australia with their friends | |
| Harriet Westcott |
Data Analysis and Qualitative Studies
| Insider-Outsider Identities in Fieldwork: Challenges of Collecting Data in Difficult Security Situations | |
| Asha Lal Tamang |
| Cross-cultural research in Aceh and Canberra: Comparing apples and pears? | |
| Theresia Citraningtyas, Katherine Lepani, Beverley Raphael |
| Knowledge transfer when citizens engage in deliberative processes on health policy development: A socially-situated critique | |
| Catherine Anne Settle |
Mixed Methods Research
| Managing organisations in health: A mixed methods study of relationships between nursing practice environment, job satisfaction and quality of nursing care | |
| Nazlee Siddiqui, Anneke Fitzgerald |
| Why do Australian university learners of Japanese discontinue? | |
| Barbara Northwood |
| Mixed methods designs: using qualitative and quantitative approaches in development studies curriculum research | |
| Elizabeth Humphries |
Pragmatism in Qualitative Research
| Ethnographic Approaches to Researching Injecting Drug Use | |
| Catrin Smith |
| Researching family work-life-education balance: orchestrating priorities and compromises | |
| Catherine Ann Doherty |
| Using hermeneutic phenomenology to explore nurses' experience of nursing for the outlier patients in acute care hospitals | |
| Jasmine Cheung, Maureen Boughton, Sandra West |
| Questions of pragmatism in Community-based Participatory Research with an Indigenous community | |
| Julie Mooney-Somers, Anna Olsen, Robert Scott, Angie Akee, Lisa Maher |
Studying Food Choices
| Using Discrete Choice Experiments to Determine the Relative Value of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Meat Attributes: A Case Study of Australian Beef Consumers | |
| Wendy Umberger, Simone Mueller |
| Studying Food Choices: How should we do this? | |
| Michelle Gosse |
| Construct validation of the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (CFPQ) in an Australian sample. | |
| Michael John Kiernan |
| Serving-size information on nutrition labels | |
| Lenny R Vartanian |
The Relationship Between Theory and Method in Qualitative Research
| Theorising the process of preventive dental care while combining two theories in practice | |
| Alexandra Sbaraini, Stacy M Carter, Robin Wendell Evans, Anthony Blinkhorn |
| The relationship between theory and practice in qualitative inquiry | |
| Stacy M Carter, Claire Hooker |
| Research Methodologies for Engineering Asset Management | |
| Khaled Omran El-Akruti, Richard Dwight |
| Workplace Communication: Balancing the Topic, the Theory and the Methodology | |
| Lyn Daff |
PhD 1
| The quantitative-qualitative debate: subjectivity in the so called 'objective research' in nursing | |
| Mohammad A. Al-Motlaq, Ysanne Chapman |
| Pitfalls of data collection: a practical guide to overcoming methodological issues associated with data collection for a PhD Project based primarily on a survey design | |
| Sallie Gardner |
| A study on the patterns of change in the Vietnamese language spoken by the second generation of the Vietnamese immigrants in Queensland, Australia | |
| Bao Tinh Hoang |
| The experiences of a participant observer in online renal discussion groups: robust vulnerability and warm exclusion. | |
| Natalya Godbold |
Feminist Research
| Using Qualitative Methods in Feminist Research | |
| Nurunnaher Nurunnaher |
| The Emotional Labour of Sensitive and Feminist Research Methodologies | |
| Katherine Carroll |
| Towards a feminist methodology of listening | |
| Frances Shaw |
| Media reporting of the women's movement | |
| Kirsty McLaren |
On Line Research
| Comparing the quality of data from postal and online questionnaires | |
| Allan Benaud Smith, Madeleine King, Phyllis Butow, Ian Olver |
| Observing the joint dynamics of different event streams in social media environments | |
| Christoph Stadtfeld |
| A Web Analysis of HIV Information Delivery in China | |
| Jiaying Zhao, Robert Ackland |
| Using Digital Trace Data to Research Social Networks and Ageing | |
| Robert Ackland |
PhD 2
| Research Design in Upper Echelons Theory: A Philosophical Analysis | |
| Zahra Sadeghinejad, Arash Najmaei |
| Issues and Solutions for Applying Grounded Theory Method: A Preliminary Analysis | |
| Corina Raduescu, Iris Vessey |
| Researching Organizational (Dynamic) Capabilities: An Introduction to Epistemology and Ontology | |
| Arash Najmaei |
Measurement and instrument development
| Measuring Literal-Symbolic Content in Advertising | |
| Maria M. Van Dessel |
| Resolving Differential Item Functioning by split of items | |
| Curt Hagquist |
| The use of Life Event Calendar methodology in intimate partner homicide research | |
| Li Eriksson, Paul Mazerolle, Richard Wortley, Holly Johnson |
| Loose Poles: Evidence on the Importance of Specific Labels on Response Scales | |
| Paula Wright |
Improving Survey Coverage
| Profiling the 'mobile phone only' population. Results from Australia's first ever Dual-frame telephone survey | |
| Darren Walter Pennay |
| Random Digit Dialing - Changes and Challenges | |
| Darren Walter Pennay, Graham Michael Challice |
| Minimising attrition during a 12 month longitudinal study of a vulnerable population | |
| Karen Larsen-Truong |
Data Analysis - methods
| Getting a Job in Australia: Evidence from AuSSA2007 and Methodological Reflections | |
| Xianbi Huang, Mark Western |
| A practical guide to using Cliff's Delta as a measure of effect size where parametric equivalents are inappropriate. | |
| Kane Meissel |
| Analysing experimental data with repeated measures: distinguishing order effects from intervention impacts in a jury simulation | |
| David Tait |
Policy Research
| A Modelling Tool to Improve the Policy Response on Issues Concerning Children and Young People | |
| Roy Lay-Yee, Janet Pearson, Oliver Mannion, Wendy Wrapson |
| Data linkage in a social context: Making data work for complex populations | |
| Eileen Baldry, Melissa Clarence, Leanne Dowse, Daren Fisher |
| Finding a way: Footprints in Time, the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children | |
| Tess Margaret McPeake |
Research Ethics in Qualitative Studies
| Remoralizing suicide research: Ethical and methodological considerations | |
| Scott James Fitzpatrick |
| Proposing 'Best Practice' Research: Methodology-Methods-Ethics Links that Facilitate Meaningful Research and Participant Well-being | |
| Petra Buergelt |
| Existential and hermeneutic dimensions of phenomenological inquiry in psychology: from an insider's perspective | |
| Anita Milicevic |
Design Issues for Quantitative Data
| Lone and couple mothers in the Australian labour market: Using HILDA calendar data to examine monthly employment transitions | |
| Jennifer Renda, Jennifer Baxter |
| The Strengths and Challenges of Operationalising a National Pain Management Project using a Step-Wedge design. | |
| Scott Bennetts, Susan Huckson, Kerri Holzhauser, Mitra Jazayeri |
| Recall error and partner consistency in reporting of cohabitation and marriage dates | |
| Anna Reimondos, Ann Evans, Edith Gray |
Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY)
| Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) | |
| Sinan Gemici |
| Overview of the LSAY program | |
| Patrick Lim |
| Using the LSAY data | |
| Jung-Sook Lee |
Data Analysis - applications
| Life Satisfaction across the Retirement Transition: a Latent Growth Curve Modelling Approach | |
| Lachlan Heybroek |
| Income pooling in couples: differences between and within countries over time | |
| Ann Evans, Anna Reimondos, Edith Gray |
ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference
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