About

I'm currently the Social Sciences Research Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I liaise with the departments of Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography/GIS as well as working with qualitative researchers.

In my research, I explore how people learn to use qualitative research methods and technology for qualitative data analysis. I'm also interested in how academic libraries build and share their services for researcher, to better understand how those processes communicate which types of knowledge creation are - or should be - prioritized.

Posts

Nov 21, 2022

Qualitative Analysis Examples

Last week, I led a workshop on planning qualitative data analysis for our state Extension conference. The attendees were great, and asked lots of good questions, including for examples of work that shows how qualitative analysis happens. I posted a c...

Jun 22, 2022

Facilitating qualitative data analysis and CAQDAS use outside the classroom

Much of the work of learning to conduct qualitative research and to use technology for QDA happens outside the classroom. In this presentation, I discuss an approach to facilitating qualitative data analysis by asking researchers questions about their...

Mar 30, 2022

Discussing Qualitative Analysis on the It Takes a Campus Podcast

Our Scholarly Commons has a podcast about the people who support digital scholarship on campus. I recently spoke to Grad Assistant Ben Ostermeier about my work with qualitative researchers. The episode is now available online. You can listen online o...

Mar 25, 2022

Transforming Library Services for Graduate Students 2022

At the 2022 Transforming Library Services for Graduate Students conference, I presented on an approach for engaging with qualitative researchers that draws on academic library workers' strength in asking questions about researchers goals. These questio...