Wayne A. Babchuk is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Quantitative, Qualitative, and Psychometric Methods (QQPM) program in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and holds Courtesy Appointments in the Department of Anthropology and Department of Sociology at UNL. He is co-founder and co-chair of UNL’s Qualitative and Mixed Methods Interest Group (QQPM) and has taught multiple workshops on qualitative and mixed methods for the African Doctoral Academy at Stellenbosch University, South Africa and for the Japan Society for Mixed Methods Research in Osaka, Japan. Dr. Babchuk serves as an Executive Board Member of the Central States Anthropological Society (CSAS) and Treasurer for the Kalahari People Fund (KPF) of sub-Saharan Africa. He currently serves as Managing Editor of the Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research (JEQR).

Dr. Babchuk is an applied research methodologist who teaches and conducts research on qualitative and mixed methods research across disciplines, research ethics, grounded theory, ethnography, grounded theory ethnography, mixed methods-grounded theory, and community-based participatory research. He is also involved in several other research tracks including Kalahari San land use and resource rights, conservation, and development, ecotourism, applied and development anthropology, the evaluation and assessment of teaching among faculty in post-secondary institutions, student and instructor perceptions of the impact of social media on learning, interdisciplinary collaboration, and a host of other topics.

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