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Join us to hear from other colleagues who attended a conference, training, workshop, or institute this past year and want to share what they learned. Whether it is new skills, tools, or research, we hope to unpack all of the information we're bringing back to campus from our various development opportunities. These will be hosted in rounds of 45 minute breakout sessions, with a break from 12pm-1pm for attendees to grab lunch on your own.

This program is free for all Student Life Staff, and a $15 charge for non Student Life attendees.

This is not a formal conference event, but you can think of it more as a "Teachback" opportunity! Afterward for Student Life Staff, spend time mingling with colleagues at the Annual Student Life Celebration, 3pm-5pm in the Michigan Union.



Creative Qualitative Research for Staff and Personal Learning and Development

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Anderson Room, Michigan Union
Wendy Lawrence

Learn about yourself, your work, and your staff with creative ways to ask and answer questions. I will share techniques I learned from the ICQI: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry including (1) Arts-based research (photovoice, mindful art journaling, and poeticising results), (2) mixed methods (quant and qual together!), (3) AI-driven analysis, and (4) physical embodiment of data as a way to understand it more deeply. I focus on pushing the boundaries of qualitative research, explore new and sometimes messy ways to ask and answer questions, and discuss how to learn about ourselves, our staff, and our work through untraditional qualitative methods. If you are completely new to qualitative research, you can come to learn ways to bring this into your work and if you are familiar with it, you can come to learn new qualitative methodologies!

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