Your CIOS file request: Q-METHOD/05299063.636 hotline item

-
Received:  by CIOS Mailer; Friday 29 May 2009 06:36:36
Date:         Fri, 29 May 2009 11:37:03 +0100
From:         John Bradley 
Subject: Re: cool cars!
To:           Q-METHOD@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU
List-Help: ,              
List-Unsubscribe: 
List-Subscribe: 
List-Owner: 
List-Archive: 

This is a multipart message in MIME format.
--=_alternative 003A43CE802575C5_=
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

The Cool Wall for sorting cars that Wendy is referring appears each week 
on the TV programme Top Gear. (I promise you I only watch it when my 
teenage son is at home and takes control of the television).

I hadn=3Ft thought of it as a sorting activity before, but clearly it is. 
However it includes some interesting methodological variations that we 
might want to reflect on. Essentially it is a group sort =3F in that the 
three presenters argue about where a car belongs on the sorting wall. One 
of them might place it at the =3Fsuper-cool=3F end, only for the others to 
argue about it and decide they want to place it somewhere else. I wonder 
if anyone has used Q as a group task before=3F As such it changes the nature=
 
of the activity from one where we could explore the varied viewpoints on 
cars, to one in which the group has to settle on a single viewpoint. 
Interestingly, this supposed consensus is usually reached when the biggest 
and loudest presenter (Jeremy Clarkson) takes control and tells the other 
two that his viewpoint is correct and theirs are wrong. So it becomes an 
interesting activity for exploring power relationships, but like in the 
rest of life the smaller less aggressive members have their viewpoints 
stamped on and ignored. 


Dr John Bradley
Head of Inclusion Services
and Principal Educational Psychologist
Children & Young People's Services
Nottinghamshire County Council





"W.Stainton-Rogers"  
Sent by: Q Methodology Network 
28/05/2009 16:25
Please respond to
Q Methodology Network 


To
Q-METHOD@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU
cc

Subject
cool cars!






I have a doctoral student, Phill Dyson, who is doing a Q study as part of 
his doctoral research (probably). Part of his coursework is to enter a 
poster competition, and he's doing it on Q. Once it's finished I'll ask 
him to post it for you guys.
 
But along the way he showed me someting interesting from BBC television, 
part of a programme about cars. It's a 'cool wall' where the presenters 
discuss cars in relation to four categories - from 'seriously un-cool' to 
'sub-zero'. To all effects a Q sort! You can find the programme at 
http://www.youtube.com/watch=3Fv=3D8xtJBUrfaLA <
http://www.youtube.com/watch=3Fv=3D8xtJBUrfaLA> . I'm loath to attech a 
picture as it might cause problems. But it is fun.
Wendy
 
 

=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=
=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F

From: Q Methodology Network on behalf of BROWN, STEVEN  at 
Sent: Wed 27/05/2009 21:32
To: Q-METHOD@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU
Subject: Norwegian Q conference



Reference was recently made to the forthcoming Norwegian Q conference, 
scheduled for November 19-20 in Stavanger, Norway.

For those interested, a conference website has now been established at 
http://www.uis.no/Q-konferanse (text in Norwegian).

The conference will be keynoted by Diane Montgomery of Oklahoma State and 
Susan Ramlo of Akron University.  Designed in part to promote the use of Q 
among Norwegian social and behavioral scientists, the conference is 
expected to result in a volume comprised of selected revised papers.

Persons interested in attending should contact Ingunn Storksen 
 or Arlene Thorsen , both 
of the Centre for Behavioural Research, University of Stavanger.


---------------------------------
The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an 
exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 
038302).




E-mails and any attachments from Nottinghamshire County Council are confiden=
tial. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immedi=
ately by replying to the e-mail, and then delete it without making copies or=
 using it in any other way.

Although any attachments to the message will have been checked for viruses b=
efore transmission, you are urged to carry out your own virus check before o=
pening attachments, since the County Council accepts no responsibility for l=
oss or damage caused by software viruses.

Senders and recipients of email should be aware that, under the Data Protect=
ion Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the contents may have =
to be disclosed in response to a request.

Nottinghamshire County Council Legal Disclaimer


--=_alternative 003A43CE802575C5_=
Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable



The Cool Wall for sorting cars that Wendy is
referring appears each week on the TV programme Top Gear. (I promise
you I only watch it when my teenage son is at home and takes control of
the television).



I hadn’t thought of it as a sorting activity be=
fore,
but clearly it is. However it includes some interesting methodological
variations that we might want to reflect on. Essentially it is a group
sort – in that the three presenters argue about where a car belongs on=

the sorting wall. One of them might place it at the ‘super-cool’=
 end,
only for the others to argue about it and decide they want to place it
somewhere else. I wonder if anyone has used Q as a group task before=3F As
such it changes the nature of the activity from one where we could explore
the varied viewpoints on cars, to one in which the group has to settle
on a single viewpoint. Interestingly, this supposed consensus is
usually reached when the biggest and loudest presenter (Jeremy Clarkson)
takes control and tells the other two that his viewpoint is correct and
theirs are wrong. So it becomes an interesting activity for exploring power
relationships, but like in the rest of life the smaller less aggressive
members have their viewpoints stamped on and ignored. 





Dr John Bradley

Head of Inclusion Services

and Principal Educational Psychologist

Children & Young People's Services

Nottinghamshire County Council












"W.Stainton-Roger=
s"
<W.Stainton-Rogers@OPEN.AC.UK> 

Sent by: Q Methodology Network <Q-=
METHOD@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU>
28/05/2009 16:25



Please respond to
=

Q Methodology Network <Q-METHOD@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU>






To
Q-METHOD@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU


cc



Subject
cool cars!










I have a doctoral student, Phill Dyson, who is doing
a Q study as part of his doctoral research (probably). Part of his coursewor=
k
is to enter a poster competition, and he's doing it on Q. Once it's finished=

I'll ask him to post it for you guys.

 

But along the way he showed me someting interesting from BBC television,
part of a programme about cars. It's a 'cool wall' where the presenters
discuss cars in relation to four categories - from 'seriously un-cool'
to 'sub-zero'. To all effects a Q sort! You can find the programme at http:/=
/www.youtube.com/watch=3Fv=3D8xtJBUrfaLA
<http://www.youtube.com/watch=3Fv=3D8xtJBUrfaLA> . I'm loath to attech=

a picture as it might cause problems. But it is fun.

Wendy

 

 



=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=
=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F



From: Q Methodology Network on behalf of BROWN, STEVEN
  at 
Sent: Wed 27/05/2009 21:32

To: Q-METHOD@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU

Subject: Norwegian Q conference







Reference was recently made to the forthcoming Norwegian Q conference,
scheduled for November 19-20 in Stavanger, Norway.



For those interested, a conference website has now been established at
http://www.uis.no/Q-konferanse (text in Norwegian).



The conference will be keynoted by Diane Montgomery of Oklahoma State and
Susan Ramlo of Akron University.  Designed in part to promote the
use of Q among Norwegian social and behavioral scientists, the conference
is expected to result in a volume comprised of selected revised papers.



Persons interested in attending should contact Ingunn Storksen <ingunn.st=
orksen@uis.no>
or Arlene Thorsen <arlene.thorsen@uis.no>, both of the Centre for
Behavioural Research, University of Stavanger.





---------------------------------

The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt
charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC
038302).






E-mails and any attachments from Nottinghamshire County Council are =
confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sende=
r immediately by replying to the e-mail, and then delete it without making c=
opies or using it in any other way.

Alt=
hough any attachments to the message will have been checked for viruses befo=
re transmission, you are urged to carry out your own virus check before open=
ing attachments, since the County Council accepts no responsibility for loss=
 or damage caused by software viruses.

=
Senders and recipients of email should be aware that, under the Data Protect=
ion Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the contents may have =
to be disclosed in response to a request.

Nottinghamshire County Council Legal Disclaimer


--=_alternative 003A43CE802575C5_=--