QSA*Net aims to stimulate awareness and participation in open research by promoting practices of data re-use in the qualitative social sciences. The project will research barriers to re-using qualitative data deposited in data infrastructures such as the Digital Repository of Ireland, and inform researchers about the analytical potential of Qualitative Secondary Analysis (QSA). It will engage researchers across disciplines, and across academic and applied sectors, by building community, fostering expertise, and developing skills in QSA, with a particular focus on early career and other under-represented researchers. QSA*Net will establish an international partnership on excellence in QSA with Maynooth University, the Technological University of the Shannon in Ireland, and the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Building on this partnership, QSA*Net will develop an openly available collection of state-of-the art resources on QSA in the Digital Repository of Ireland (QSA*Hub), and will contribute to the development of an international network on Qualitative Archives and Qualitative Data Re-Use.
Principal Investigator: Jane Gray, Maynooth University
Project Partners:
Kahryn Hughes, University of Leeds
Lisa Moran, Technological University of the Shannon
Project Affiliates and Members of the Advisory Board:
Fran Callaghan, Maynooth University
Ruth Geraghty, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Elizabeth Kiely, University College, Cork
Dermot Lynott, Maynooth University
Chandana Mathur, Maynooth University
Mary O’Donoghue, University of Limerick
Aileen O’Carroll, Maynooth University
Marian Quinn, Childhood Development Initiative
The National Open Research Forum is a Government of Ireland initiative, funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, through the Higher Education Authority
