2013 AERA Annual Meeting: SIG Highlights

The 2013 AERA annual meeting in San Francisco featured five sessions sponsored by our SIG. Twenty-three papers out of 36 submitted were accepted for presentation, including more by new authors than in previous years.

The SIG Business Meeting, held on Monday, April 29, 2013, included the following agenda items: 1) introduction of new SIG Secretary/Treasurer, Lisa Foster, Harvard University; 2) reports by SIG officers; 3) discussion of future goals; 4) presentation by Michelle Howell Smith, winner of Outstanding Mixed Methods Dissertation Award; 5) panel discussion titled “Controversies in Mixed Methods.”

As of March 2013, SIG membership had increased to 278 members, up from 227 in previous years. Members discussed future goals to present annual awards for Lifetime Achievement, Best Book, and Outstanding Dissertation (currently presented every other year). Members also noted a need to increase paper submissions for the annual meeting. The meeting concluded with the following presentations:

• Outstanding Mixed Methods Dissertation Award
  Presented to Michelle Howell Smith (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
  Title: “Factors that Facilitate or Inhibit Interest of Domestic Students in the
  Engineering Ph.D.: A Mixed Methods Study”
  Advisor: Dr. Ellen Weissinger


• Panel Discussion – “Controversies in Mixed Methods”
  Views concerning controversies and prominent changes in philosophy,
  methodology, and methods that emerged in the last few years
  Participants: Kathy Collins, John Creswell, Burke Johnson, Joe Maxwell, and
  Anthony Onwuegbuzie

N. Wingo, Editor

Summer 2013

New Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA)

Did you hear the news? We have a new international professional association! The Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA) is now enrolling members from all over the world to form an interdisciplinary research community. MMIRA Board members and Steering Committee members include many colleagues from our Mixed Methods SIG.

We urge you to become a part of this growing international association! Your annual enrollment dues ($50/regular; $20/student, emeritus, or retired; $5/students, professors, or citizens in developing nations; $100/institutional) will give you a special e-access subscription to the Journal of Mixed Methods Research, leadership/mentoring opportunities in the new association, and access to the new MMIRA website (at http://MMIRA.org) that features a variety of pedagogical and research resources, updates about current mixed methods initiatives/conferences, and opportunities for dialogue with other mixed methods scholars and students.

Your membership will also give you a 10% registration discount for the annual MMIRA conference that will be sponsored by various institutions around the world. The inaugural conference will be held at Boston College on July 27-29, 2014.

To join the MMIRA, complete the registration form online at http://MMIRA.org.

N. Wingo, Editor

Summer 2013