The XVI Colloquium on Qualitative Research Methods in Business and Accounting is a two-day intensive research development forum, organized by the Department of Management, and it has been led by Lee Parker since 2008.

It attracts doctoral students, as well as emerging and established scholars in accounting, management, and business. 

The colloquium covers a wide variety of qualitative research methodologies and includes both formal presentations from international top scholars as well as interactive forums, groupworks and exercises engaging all participants.

The methodological themes to be covered will include "Interviews as encounters", "Bricolage as a theoretical practice in qualitative research", "Qualitative generalising", "What counts as good qualitative research", "Text Analysis Approaches in Corporate Narrative Reporting", “Insights on Oral History”, and "Grounded Theory: Description, Divergences and Application".