Mirka E. Koro is a professor of qualitative research. Koro's scholarship operates in the intersection of methodology, philosophy, and socio-cultural critique. Her work aims to contribute to methodological knowledge, experimentation, and theoretical development across various traditions associated with qualitative research. She specifically works with theories from post-positivism to new materialism, from domain analysis to rhizoanalysis and post-human critique.
Professor Koro has studied and written about research designs broadly defined, data, different methods, research participation, validity, representation, writing, and various problems with simplicity, technicality, and neoliberal pressures affecting contemporary qualitative research. Professor Koro is currently involved in multiple methodological and conceptual projects including data, methodologies without methodologies, decentering and rethinking academic-writing-conference-machine, and potentialities associated with knowledge.
Qualitative research, theories, methodologies, participant-driven research projects, creativity in research design
Current Research Projects:
Project name: Data in qualitative research: definitions, purposes, and functions. This methodological project investigates data as a concept an function in qualitative research.
Project name: Sound Encounters and the uninformed potential (of the undocumented, noise and gossip). In this project we explore the possibilities of sound and video in qualitative research drawing from our work with undocumented college students.
Project name: Philosophies and practices of slowness in methodology. This international collaborative project studies slowness methodologies from philosophical, theoretical, and practical angles.
Publications
Koro-Ljungberg, M. (2016) Reconceptualizing qualitative research: Methodologies without methodology. Sage.
Koro-Ljungberg, M., Löytönen, T., & Tesar, M. (2017) (Eds.). Disrupting data in qualitative inquiry: Entanglements with the Post-Critical and Post-Anthropocentric. Peter Lang.
Koro-Ljungberg, M., Carlson, D., Tesar, M. & Anderson, K. (2015). Methodology brut: Philosophy, ecstatic thinking, and some other (unfinished) things. Qualitative Inquiry, 21(7), 612-619.
Research Activity
Koro-Ljungberg,Mirka*. Implementing Guided Inquiry in Diverse Institutions. UNIV OF FLORIDA(1/1/2015 - 12/31/2015).
