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Conference April 9

Doing qualitative research: explore, practice, connect

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On 9 April 2026, the Context Network and the Qualitative Research Network Groningen invite you to the conference:

Doing Qualitative Research: Explore, Practice, Connect

A one-day conference at the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen. This event brings together professionals and students working in academia, research institutes and government institutions who work with — or are curious about — qualitative research. Join us for a day of exploring, practising, and connecting around qualitative research.

What to expect

Keynote lecture by Leen Sterckx (inclusivity and connection in research)
Keynote by Xavier Salet (quality of qualitative research)
Interactive workshops on topics such as theory in qualitative research, observation, policy evaluation analysis, focus groups, walk-along interviews, GenAI, and design thinking in research
Plenty of space for learning, discussion, and networking

Sponsored by MAXQDA

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Tamarinde Haven

Tamarinde Haven is an Assistant Professor in Qualitative Research Methodology for the Social Behavioural Sciences at Tilburg University. She has a background in psychology, philosophy and epidemiology. Her PhD focused on fostering a responsible research climate for integrity. After that, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Charité UMC in Berlin, where she began her research on responsible supervision. This led to a Rubicon grant from NWO to stay at Aarhus University. She obtained a VENI grant to strengthen rigour in mixed methods research and teaches qualitative research methods at the bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD levels. Tamarinde’s research interests include research integrity, methodology, open science, and qualitative and mixed methods research.

Irene van den Bosch

Irene van den Bosch is a research methodologist at the Dutch Court of Audit (Algemene Rekenkamer). She specializes in qualitative research and supports teams with research design, methods, and data collection strategies, helping to ensure that performance audits are robust and insightful. Irene has a background in policy development and research in the public sector and has often worked at the crossroads of research, policy, and governance. She has conducted many research projects for public authorities, including policy evaluations, integrity investigations, and (local) audit research.

Suzanne Roggeveen

Suzanne Roggeveen previously worked as a methodologist and methods and innovation coordinator at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research and a qualitative researcher at the University of Amsterdam. Nowadays, she is an independent methodologist and advices researchers and students,

while also conducting research in health care settings. She is an editor for Kwalon,

an online platform for blogs on qualitative research and a certified MAXQDA trainer. Suzanne has extended experience with qualitative methodological approaches and analysis techniques, positionality meetings and ethical challenges in qualitative research.

Anja van der Voort

Anja van der Voort is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University. She is the chair of the program group 'Research Methods and Statistics' and advises and collaborates on many qualitative studies on diverse topics. She aims to optimize qualitative methodologies when studying young people and their caregivers. For example, in Studying Voices of Middle Childhood Online she investigated ethical and methodological challenges of conducting online focus groups with children. Currently, she supervises projects on the comparison of several qualitative data collection methods, single case experimental designs, focus groups in group therapy, and more.

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