Summer research gab to sizzle at UST

MANILA — The University of Santo Tomas is set to mix up quantitative and qualitative researchers this May 21 and 22 through a fair that’s themed after a mainstay Filipino dessert.

Halo-Halo: The Filipino Mixed Methods Fair will bring together novice and seasoned researchers to learn the basics of combining quantitative and qualitative methods in social science, health science and humanities research.

This hyflex event (to be held both at UST’s Thomas Aquinas Research Complex and on Zoom) will assemble 37 resource persons from 26 universities and two NGOs. These speakers come from three continents, from the three major Philippine island groups, and from various disciplines.

Halo-halo serves as the culturally aligned theme for mixed methods by Filipinos, with the mixing of ingredients to concoct this summer dessert akin to how putting quantitative and qualitative methods together produces broader research findings and insights.

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The Fair also strives to reflect how Filipino researchers from disciplines —in the health sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, and other relevant disciplines— have been doing mixed methods.

Elizabeth Creamer, a professor emerita of psychology at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute State University in the US, will deliver the keynote address. President Loraine Cook of the Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA) and of the University of the West Indies in Jamaica will also give remarks.

Registration fees are as follows:

• P2,000 for UST faculty members;
• P1,500 for UST graduate students;
• P1,000 for UST undergraduate students;
• P1,500 for non-UST participants based in Metro Manila; and
• P1,000 for non-UST participants based outside of Metro Manila.

For details and payment instructions, interested parties may reach the UST Research Center for Social Sciences and Education (RCSSED), the main organizer of Halo-Halo, at rcssed@ust.edu.ph / halohalo.mixedmethods@gmail.com, and at 02-87313535.