Qualitative Special Interest Group (QSIG)

Fola Afolabi and Kritika Samsi present a 6-month project that focused on developing, recruiting, and training Youth Brain Health Champions from amongst school children in south London.

In recent years, clinical prediction models (CPMs) have emerged as an avenue for risk stratification and the provision of highly individualised care, through careful consideration of differences across individuals’ characteristics, genes, environments, and lifestyles. In psychiatry, whilst many CPMs have shown promise in improving care, few have actualised their potential and been implemented for routine usage in clinical practice as in certain branches of medicine (e.g., cardiovascular disease and cancer).

With Jo Law. This presentation shares the methodological design of her PhD, which explores working-class motherhood. It will explain why she chose a multi-level discourse framework, how she conceptualised each level and how she is working across micro, meso, and macro levels in her analysis. Focusing particularly on the meso level, she will draw on staff interviews alongside ethnographic observations in a community centre to explore how working-class motherhood is talked about and lived in everyday interactions.

Deborah Chinn explores how she came to Conversation Analysis as a qualitative researcher working within a social constructionist understanding of intellectual disability, and how this approach resonated with her practitioner role as an NHS psychologist. She will explore the potential for CA research to inform communication training interventions that have the potential to ‘unmake’ competency-inhibiting interactions with disabled people.