Open Workshop: Gaining Insight Through Qualitative Research
The aim of the Open Workshop Series in Business and Management Studies is to promote top-quality academic and applied research in various fields of the social sciences. This is a unique opportunity for sharing knowledge and networking with local and international community members.
Speaker: Dr. Dmitrijs Kravčenko, Associate Professor of Business and Management at SSE Riga
Qualitative research is a topic rife with misconception, misunderstanding, and misrepresentation. Often thought of as a 'soft' and deficient cousin of quantitative methodologies copied out of or derived from naturalistic research, experience of engaging in qualitative research can range from, in the best case, confusion to, in the worst case, irreversible loss of days, weeks, months, or even years of back-breaking field work. In truth, qualitative methodologies are neither 'better' nor 'worse' than their quantitative counterparts - they are simply very different and they not only demand different planning procedures but an entirely different way of thinking about data, research and even the researcher. This workshop will take stock of over a decade of experience in qualitative research in both public and private sectors, reflecting on methods ranging from the all-familiar interviews to deep field ethnography.
Dr. Dmitrijs Kravčenko is Associate Professor of Business and Management at SSE Riga, Associate Fellow at the ESRC Digital Futures of Work Research Centre at the Universities of Leeds and Sussex. Dmitrijs's expertise revolves around studies of social epistemology with an emphasis on organizational memory and knowledge management, innovation, and digitisation of work in the context of platforms and gig work. He is a board member or advising member of various academic associations, creator of the Talking About Organizations Podcast, management study field expert at the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education of Lithuania and independent expert on platform work at the European Commission.
Discussion moderated by Dr. Arnis Sauka.
Attendance is free of charge.
Please sign up for the seminar, by writing to arnis.sauka@sseriga.edu by May 16, 2024.
The aim of the SSE Riga Open Workshop Series is to:
- Foster cooperation between business and management researchers, practitioners and policymakers, as well as
- Promote academic and applied research in various fields of the social sciences, focusing on but not limited to entrepreneurship, marketing, management, public administration, and strategy.
Organised by Professor Arnis Sauka, the Centre for Sustainable Business at SSE Riga