Qualitative Research in Accounting Network Special Interest Group

The Qualitative Research in Accounting Network (QualRAN) SIG is a community of scholars dedicated to advancing the practice, rigour, and creativity of qualitative research in accounting and related disciplines. It brings together researchers across all career stages, with a particular commitment to supporting PhD students and early career researchers in developing their qualitative research skills.

The SIG provides a forum for members to share practices, discuss emerging qualitative methods, and work through the practical and methodological challenges of fieldwork, interviews, ethnography, case studies, and other qualitative approaches. Past seminars and webinars, delivered by leading qualitative researchers, have addressed topics such as vignettes and netnography in qualitative accounting research, strategies for publishing qualitative work, and ways to enhance the impact of qualitative research. In a rapidly changing research landscape, QualRAN also provides a space to consider how new technologies, including generative AI and other digital tools, are reshaping qualitative data collection and analysis, and what this means for the integrity and future direction of the field.

QualRAN's activities include an Annual Meeting, webinars, and a PhD pitch competition, in which higher-degree research students present their research ideas to an expert panel and receive constructive feedback. Through these activities, QualRAN builds a welcoming, collegial, and supportive network for qualitative accounting researchers across Australia and New Zealand.

Committee:

• Chair: Professor Jodie Moll
• Vice Chair: Associate Professor Binh Bui
• Secretary: Richard Pucci
• HDR Initiatives: Professor John Dumay
• Other Committee Members: Roel Boomsma, Yunyao Liu and Tirukumar Thiagarajah

Thank you to our members for making our previous workshops very successful events.  Please find below the presentations available to view:

Qualitative Research with Impact Expert Panel and Research Pitching

Using Vignettes in Qualitative Accounting Research

QualRAN Workshop: Publishing Strategies

You can view Professor John Dumay's slides HERE

Enhancing research project by re-imagining the research process