Interviewing in Qualitative Research Workshop Speakers
Kathryn Roulston, Associate Professor
Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy
Qualitative Research Program
College of Education, University of Georgia
Kathryn Roulston completed her Ph.D. in Education at the University of Queensland, Australia in 2000. She is an associate professor of Qualitative Research in the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy at the University of Georgia, Athens, and serves as graduate coordinator for the department. Her research-dev interests include qualitative research-dev methodology, qualitative interviewing, ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches to research-dev, and topics in music education. She has published in a variety of journals, including Qualitative Research, Qualitative Inquiry, and International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Her book Reflective Interviewing: A Guide to Theory and Practice was published by Sage in 2010, and has received positive reviews from scholars working in different disciplines
Kathleen deMarrais, Professor
Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy
Qualitative Research Program
College of Education, University of Georgia
Kathleen deMarrais is professor in the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration and Policy. From 1999-2004, was the coordinator of the Qualitative Inquiry Program at the University of Georgia. From 2004-2009 she served as Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Education at the University of Georgia. She is a qualitative methodologist with interests in the ethics and politics of conducting qualitative research-dev studies and in teaching qualitative research-dev methodologies. Her current research-dev agenda is focused on tracking philanthropic funding in education, particularly teacher education. Dr. deMarrais has a long history of teaching qualitative research-dev methods courses and has served as qualitative methodologist for numerous program evaluations. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, her books include: Foundations for research-dev: Methods of inquiry in education and the social sciences.(with S. Lapan,), Inside Stories, Educating Young Adolescent Girls (with P. O’Reilly & B. Penn), The way schools work: A sociological analysis of schooling,3rd Edition (with M. LeCompte), and Life at the margins: Profiles of diverse adults (with J. Merrifield, D. Hemphill & B. Bingman). In a collaborative effort of the UGA qualitative research-dev faculty she co-authored (with Freeman, Preissle, Roulston & St. Pierre) the 2007 Educational Researcher article entitled Standards of evidence in qualitative research-dev: An incitement to discourse. Her latest publication is the 2011 chapter (co-authored with Preissle & Armstrong), “Anthropology and Education” in Handbook of Research in Social Foundations of Education (Tozer, Gallegos, Henry, Eds).
Kathleen lives in a rural area east of Lexington, Georgia where she gardens, enjoys her pets, works on her historic house, and tries to find time for family genealogy.