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For the second year in a row AQR spread the word about qualitative research at IIeX Europe in the impressive halls of the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam.
The Insight & Innovation Exchange (IIeX), a forum designed to
promote new thinking and new technologies that might affect the
future of research, extended an invite to us again this year.
Simon Patterson chaired a well-attended session showcasing the winner and finalists of the 2017 AQR Prosper Riley-Smith Qualitative Excellence Award in Track 2 (one up from last years Track 3). I talked about the history of AQR, of the Awards themselves, and the importance of Qualitative Research says Simon. It keeps the qualitative flag flying and raises the profile of our finalists.
This years exhibition and conference revolved, to a great extent, around AI, so AQRs presentations about ethnography and qualitative analysis were very distinctive. Again, it proved a refreshing change in terms of speakers, exhibitors and audiences and the hope is that well be invited back next year by the organisers.
Louella Miles
Writers4Management
This article was first published in InBrief magazine, April 2018
Copyright © Association for Qualitative Research, 2018
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Louella Miles
Louella Miles, the editor of In Brief since July 1996, is a business journalist of some 20 years experience, focusing mainly on marketing-related topics. Louella is the co-founder of the professional writing service, Writers 4 Management, and along with her business partner Laura Mazur has written Conversations with Marketing Masters, published by John Wiley in January 2007, and Conversations with Green Gurus in 2009.
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