About us – QuaText Institute for Qualitative Social Research e.V.
Who is QuaText interesting for?
- Are you interested in qualitative social research?
- Are you planning to conduct open and especially narrative interviews (thematically focused or biographical interviews) or family interviews?
- Would you like to work with group discussions, participant observation, or sociological discourse analysis?
- Do you want to analyse your data using interpretative methods and are you considering a combination of different methods?
- Do you need expert advice in respect of applying for third-party funding, designing a research and work program, selecting methods for your ongoing or planned projects, or individual or team supervision for yourself or your colleagues and team?
The QuaText e.V. team offers method training and method consulting oriented to your needs and projects, as well as other services such as transcriptions and archive research. Our experts also offer individual or team supervision.
Under the leadership of the experienced scholars Prof. Dr Gabriele Rosenthal, Prof. Dr Michaela Köttig and Prof. Dr Maria Pohn-Lauggas, QuaText has assembled an international team of academics from Germany, Austria, Brazil, and Paraguay, each working with different combinations of methods. All the members of QuaText can look back on decades of international research and cooperation experience – especially in countries in the Global South – and can advise you in German, Arabic, English, Portuguese, or Spanish. Our institute was founded in Berlin in 1982. We have broad expertise in various methods of interpretative social research and focus on family and life history research. We specialize in a wide range of topics: find out more on the personal pages of our members on our website.
For enquiries, please contact us at g.rosenthal@gmx.de or quatext@quatext.de. We look forward to supporting you in your research work. The duration, location, and price can be individually agreed upon.
Board
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rosenthal
Prof. Dr. Michaela Köttig
Prof. Dr. Maria Pohn-Lauggas
Registered office
QuaText
c/o Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rosenthal
Boddinstraße 10
12053 Berlin
e‑mail: G.Rosenthal@gmx.de