Professor Silvia Gherardi: “What is post-qualitative inquiry, and why do we need it?”
Professor Silvia Gherardi gives a public lecture on “What is post-qualitative inquiry, and why do we need it?” at the School of Business.
Abstract: Across the social sciences, there has been growing interest in post-qualitative inquiry and its potential to critically challenge the foundations of conventional qualitative research. This turn has sparked important conversations about what counts as knowledge, evidence, and data, and has highlighted the need to develop more ethical and response-able ways of knowing – approaches that move beyond linear research designs and traditional disciplinary conventions. Post-qualitative inquiry invites us to rethink not only what research is, but how it is practiced. It opens up questions about the relationship between concepts and empirical inquiry, what it means to engage in research as a practice, and how to craft accounts that resonate with – rather than represent – the phenomena we seek to explore.
BIO: Silvia Gherardi is a Professor (Emerita) of sociology in work and organization in the Department of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy, and a founding member of the Research Unit on Communication, Organizational Learning and Aesthetics. Professor Gherardi has published widely in the fields of learning in organizations, practice-based organization studies and gender studies. Her current research interests focus on feminist new materialism, feminist posthumanism, affective ethnography, epistemology of practice theory, entrepreneurship, and postqualitative methodologies in organization studies. Her recent publications include How to Conduct Practice-Based Studies: Problems and Methods (Elgar, 2019), in collaboration with Michela Cozza, The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory (Palgrave, 2024), and in collaboration with de Vaujany, and Silva Organization Studies and Posthumanism: Towards a More-than-Human World. (Routledge, 2024).
The lecture is organized in collaboration with the Qual+ platform.
Organizers: Martta Nieminen, Saija Katila, Alice Wickström, Astrid Huopalainen, and Johanna Moisander
Abstract: Across the social sciences, there has been growing interest in post-qualitative inquiry and its potential to critically challenge the foundations of conventional qualitative research. This turn has sparked important conversations about what counts as knowledge, evidence, and data, and has highlighted the need to develop more ethical and response-able ways of knowing – approaches that move beyond linear research designs and traditional disciplinary conventions. Post-qualitative inquiry invites us to rethink not only what research is, but how it is practiced. It opens up questions about the relationship between concepts and empirical inquiry, what it means to engage in research as a practice, and how to craft accounts that resonate with – rather than represent – the phenomena we seek to explore.
BIO: Silvia Gherardi is a Professor (Emerita) of sociology in work and organization in the Department of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy, and a founding member of the Research Unit on Communication, Organizational Learning and Aesthetics. Professor Gherardi has published widely in the fields of learning in organizations, practice-based organization studies and gender studies. Her current research interests focus on feminist new materialism, feminist posthumanism, affective ethnography, epistemology of practice theory, entrepreneurship, and postqualitative methodologies in organization studies. Her recent publications include How to Conduct Practice-Based Studies: Problems and Methods (Elgar, 2019), in collaboration with Michela Cozza, The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory (Palgrave, 2024), and in collaboration with de Vaujany, and Silva Organization Studies and Posthumanism: Towards a More-than-Human World. (Routledge, 2024).
The lecture is organized in collaboration with the Qual+ platform.
Organizers: Martta Nieminen, Saija Katila, Alice Wickström, Astrid Huopalainen, and Johanna Moisander
When
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Where
Ekonominaukio 1, 02150 Espoo
V001, Ground Floor
Event language(s)
English