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My latest publication in Qualitative Social Sciences

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It started with an email I received on 5 November 2019 from an academic all the way from Turkey, which contained the following message:

Dear Narina,

I contacted you through Qualitative Research Conference abstract book where I really enjoyed reading your inquiry regarding meaning making and narrative story construction. I have done research on illness narratives of bone marrow transplant patients and I truly understood your dilemmas and inner doubts. I want to say that I believe you can make a great contribution to our brand new journal Qualitative Social Sciences. 

The journal is an open access international peer reviewed free journal. There was no journal in Turkey focusing on qualitative social sciences so we wanted fill that gap. Qualitative studies are not considered as much science as hard sciences here, so we wanted to take a step in promoting qualitative research or study. This is how we start mainly.

It is a non profit journal meaning we do not charge anyone for publication, process or submission of articles. Our humble effort is just a step towards advancement of qualitative social research here. Because I also worked on narratives, I wanted to share this journal with you.

Dr. Melih Sever
Editor-Qualitative Social Sciences
Suleyman Demirel University
Social Work Department

And so I agreed to contribute an article, and Alhamdulillah my article was published on 31 December 2019.

The front page of my article entitled “Who Am I in My Story of Teaching?: Confronting Puzzle of Practice Through Narrative Inquiry”

Feel free to read my latest paper via my ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338393118_Who_Am_I_in_My_Story_of_Teaching_Confronting_Puzzle_of_Practice_Through_Narrative_Inquiry

Or read directly from the journal website https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/nsb/issue/51274/659914

If you are interested to publish your qualitative work, you can do the online submission on the journal’s website or you can contact Dr. Melih personally.

What a way to welcome 2020…

From a master’s thesis to a journal article: Vicky’s journey

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Later today, Dr. Aqeel, my colleague at SOE who is the leader of our School’s publication committee dropped me a message, informing me that my master student’s paper had been published. Alhamdulillah… The journal is a Scopus indexed journal, so I couldn’t help but feeling proud of such accomplishment.

Vicky’s published article entitled “Juvenile Delinquents’ Learning Experiences in School within Prison: Narratives from the Malaysian Context”

In 2017, Vicky started her master thesis under my supervision and graduated in 2018. I found out later that she wished to pursue her PhD study and knowing that publication is one of the plus points for scholarship applications, I offered Vicky the assistance she needed. Since I still have some budget left from my research grant, I informed Vicky that I will help her with the publication fee. In fact, I had even asked two of my colleagues to do the editing and proofreading process, and later invited them as co-authors (as they say, to cut the extra costs…)

Feel free to read Vicky’s paper on my ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338392675_Juvenile_Delinquents’_Learning_Experiences_in_School_within_Prison_Narratives_from_the_Malaysian_Context

Or alternatively on the journal’s website http://www.hrpub.org/download/20191130/UJERA14-19590969.pdf

Qualitative research methodology course for remote supervision

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Last Tuesday, Dr. Hadijah and I conducted a one-day course on qualitative research methodology to post-graduate students who opted for remote supervision mode. 13 students attended the course, which included those from China, Pakistan, Maldives and Saudi Arabia.

Indeed, it was quite a challenge to cover all topics related to qualitative research in a day. But we managed to share with the students the fundamentals of qualitative research and the overview of qualitative research proposal.

All in all, it was an interesting session as students actively participated in the discussions during class activities, which were prepared by Dr. Hadijah.