Attend QUAL Lab Speaker Series with Meseret Hailu on Oct. 6

• Date: Monday, Oct. 6
• Time: Noon-1 p.m.
• Location: Zoom (register today)
• Presenter: Meseret Hailu, assistant professor of higher education, Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education; affiliated faculty, interdisciplinary qualitative studies

Join the UGA qualitative research program for the first UGA QUAL Lab Speaker Series of the semester, “The Possibilities and Challenges of Institutional Ethnography: A Close Look at Three African Universities,” presented by Meseret Hailu.

In the spring, Hailu conducted an institutional ethnography to study the gendered dimension of university laboratories at private universities in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. Qualitative data collection included 24 in-person interviews and 22 in-person teaching observations. Findings include:

• Overextension of instructors’ capacity
• Hierarchical pedagogical approaches
• Limited, yet robust, women’s engagement

In this talk, Hailu discusses the lessons she learned as a U.S.-based researcher who is originally from the region and her reflections on the possibilities and challenges of institutional ethnographic approaches.