CLASSIC GROUNDED THEORY WORKSHOP

We are inviting researchers, lecturers and graduate students from all over Malaysia as well as abroad to participate in The Classic Grounded Theory Workshop to be held on the 10th and 11th March 2009 at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, University Putra Malaysia. The workshop is organized by the faculty in joint collaboration with the Grounded Theory Institute, Mill Valley, California.

The fee for the workshop is MYR 800.00 / pax. Payment will include meals, workshop bag and file, modules and two certificates from University Putra Malaysia and The Grounded Theory Institute, Mill Valley, California.

The workshop will focus on addressing problems confronted by Classic Grounded Theory researchers such as:

1. Data collection and theoretical sampling

2. Writing memos and theoretical sensitivity

3. Method of analysis, open and selective coding.

4. Classic Grounded Theory Thesis Dissertation (written and verbal presentation)

5. Quantitative Grounded Theory Methodology

If you have any qualitative data that you want to analyze, please bring them to the workshop.

The Instructor
Dr Andy Lowe (pic below), a fellow of the Grounded Theory Institute, will conduct the workshop. He has close working relationship with the co-originator of Grounded Theory (Dr Barney Glaser) which has resulted in a series of international research seminars in Brussel, Paris, Helsinki, Stockholm, Karlstad, San Francisco, Berlin, London, Lisbon, Hangzhou, Johor Bahru, Singapore, Shanghai and Glasgow. He was on the editorial board of the first edition of The Grounded Theory Review which was originally launched in the late 1990's.

There will also be a teleconference session with the co-originator of Grounded Theory, Dr Barney Glaser (pic below), live from Mill Valley, California.

HURRY! REGISTER EARLY. LIMITED TO 50 PARTICIPANTS ONLY.

If you have any inquiries please contact the persons below or leave your message in this blog.

Mr Ishak Abd Hamid

Communication Department
Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication
University Putra Malaysia

43400 Serdang, Selangor
MALAYSIA
Tel. no. +603 89468779 or +6013 3801956
E-mail: ishak@fbmk.upm.edu.my

Associate Prof. Dr Ezhar Tamam, Assistant Dean (Research and Innovation),

Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication
University Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor
MALAYSIA
Tel. no. +603 89468663
E-mail: ezhar@fbmk.upm.edu.my

Dr Andy Lowe
Fellow of the Grounded Theory Institute
806 Monterey Place
Sukhumvit Soi 16
Bangkok 10110
Thailand
Tel +6626638477