Quantitative/Mixed Methods Brown Bag Seminar Series

The seminar will take place in K 3.54.

This seminar series aims to spark department-level discussions about the use of quantitative/mixed methods in research and teaching. Seminars begin with talks about concerning the potentials and problems using quantitative/mixed methods. Presenters are invited to go beyond published findings and instead also tell the messy stories behind the final results. Sometimes discussions may involve epistemological tensions in different uses of data and methods, and sometimes they may revolve around the technical details of a particular method/set of methods. A light sandwich lunch will be served. If you wish to present your ideas at a future seminar, please contact Christoph, Johan or Lasse.

This Fall/Winter the program is generously funded by the HoD fund and features presentation from Christoph, Johan and Lasse from their own research. Seminars will take place on Wednesdays and a light sandwich lunch will be served. Please register by accepting the calendar invitation.

What determines the effect of an initiative, qualitative or quantitative data?

Johan Simonsen Abildgaard

When organizational improvement initiatives have run their course discussions arise around whether they have been successful or not. In a 'evidence' focused world the impact and effect of initiatives often take form of quantitative assessments done by experts. These quantitative assessments can at times be incongruous with the change experienced by front line managers and employees. During the seminar Johan will start by presenting an in-press discussion paper on the balancing of quantitative assessments with the sensemaking of organizational members, in assessing sustainable change. He will then present a paper draft of a mixed methods evaluation of a leadership training intervention and invite the participants to join for a discussion of the complexity of establishing effect and impact.