Co-Chairs: Jessica Van Cleave (26-28), jvancleave@gardner-webb.edu and Sebnem Cilesiz (25-27), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, cilesiz@louisiana.edu

This section focuses on qualitative research that interrogates, extends, and/or advances qualitative inquiry. The section is inclusive of a range of qualitative methodological traditions, including, but not limited to, ethnographic, phenomenological, interpretive, critical, arts-based, performative, decolonizing, feminist, participatory, indigenous, and post-qualitative methodologies and the methods of data generation and analysis associated with those methodologies. Submissions might evaluate existing qualitative approaches or develop and demonstrate new ones. Submissions that reenvision theoretical or paradigmatic differences, cultivate new bonds, promote solidarity, and reconfigure power relations are encouraged. We also welcome submissions that focus on teaching, mentoring, and learning qualitative research. In keeping with the 2027 meeting theme, the Section 3 co-chairs invite submissions that span the range of qualitative methods and methodologies that foreground connection, relationality, and ethics in their enactments.