RT Journal Article T1 Archival and biographical research sensitivity: a European perspective from Spain A1 Vallés Martínez, Miguel Santiago AB Abstract: This FQS issue on archives and biographical methods is a special occasion to inform about a European initiative for the promotion and exchange of experiences of qualitative research in the social sciences. The whole project was designed as a a four-year (2006-2010) European Science Foundation program known by the acronym EUROQUAL.This article intends to provide some ideas and methodological reflections arising from the Madrid EUROQUAL-Workshop on Archives and Life-History Research (21-23 September 2009). The key point concerns what I suggest to name archival and biographical research "sensitivity." It has to do with the issues of research quality, research economy and the conception of social research as patrimony. Approaches in the European landscape also serve to highlight the contrasting situation in Spain. PB Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SN 1438-5627 YR 2011 FD 2011 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/106050 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/106050 LA eng NO Valles, M. S. (2011). Archival and Biographical Research Sensitivity: A European Perspective from Spain. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-12.3.1744 NO I present a revised English version of a paper that was first presented at the 10th Spanish Congress of Sociology held in Pamplona 1st-3rd July 2010. The focus is on variousmethodological reasonings gathered while preparing the Madrid event, starting from the kick-off meeting of the EUROQUAL program in 2006. NO European Science Foundation (EUROQUAL program 2006-2010) DS Docta Complutense RD 17 sept 2024