Acknowledging Progress and Sustaining Rigor in Qualitative Scholarship

Authors

Elena Lyutykh, Concordia University Chicago, USA | Guest Editor, WCQR-TQRFollow

Abstract

World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR) is an annual gathering that brings scholars from around the world. The conference continues to uphold the highest standards of freedom, ethical integrity, and transparency in the unwavering commitment to improve the quality in qualitative scholarship across national borders. The articles that comprise this issue navigate methodological challenges in qualitative research and seek to bring clarity when exploring and explaining truths of social phenomena. The proposed approaches to data collection and analysis demonstrate excellence in creative synthesis of techniques to decern questions of methodology, contributing to enhancements in trustworthiness of qualitative studies.

Keywords

content analysis, narrative analysis, grounded theory, participatory action research, GenAI

Author Bio(s)

Elena Lyutykh, Ed.D., is professor of research methodology at Concordia University Chicago. She leads methodological courses and curricula, chairs graduate students on research approaches and methods, and serves as a reviewer and editor for conferences and journals that publish qualitative and mixed methods scholarship. Please direct correspondence to elena.lyutykh@cuchicago.edu

Publication Date

10-23-2025

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2025.8547

Recommended APA Citation

Lyutykh, E. (2025). Acknowledging progress and sustaining rigor in qualitative scholarship. The Qualitative Report, 30(10), 4411-4414. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2025.8547