Attend UGA QUAL Lab Speaker Series on April 24

• Date: Monday, April 24
• Time: Noon-1 p.m.
• Location: Zoom (register today)
• Presenter: Ginny Boss, assistant professor, Department of Counseling and Human Development Services

Join the College’s qualitative research program for the UGA QUAL Lab Speaker Series, “Finding Me in We: COVID, Qualitative Inquiry, and the Necessity of Community,” presented by Ginny Boss.

During this QUAL Lab, Boss will discuss her project titled “Co-Conspirators and Community Care: Toward Theorizing a Post-COVID-19 Academy.” The project was a collaborative scholarly personal narrative in which Boss and colleagues reflected on our own experience of community as healing, transformative, and necessary to sustain their work. They then built on that to theorize that justice rather than interest convergence is the most effective pathway to changing institutional culture, and community care is the radical transdisciplinary perspective needed to eradicate racism and other forms of subordination in the academy.

Much of their theorizing is rooted in the transformative and emancipatory approaches currently engaged by faculty with subordinated identities. They argue that the work and community building of faculty with subordinated identities present desirable possibility models for a more just professoriate. Boss will discuss how self-reflective collaborative inquiry, presented as a first-person composite narrative, has the potential to positively blur the lines of self and community to the benefit of researchers and readers of the research.