1) To provide a supportive non-judgemental space for students and staff interested in qualitative research to present their research, to discuss methodological challenges and innovations, to critique and generate ideas, and to learn about qualitative theory and methods.
2) To offer the opportunity to meet/network with other researchers and students undertaking/considering qualitative research in applied health from any academic discipline.
QSIG mid-day talks offer an opportunity to present/share work. QSIG talks are held online on the last Monday of each month. Each meeting lasts approximately one hour.
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Dr Bethlehem Tekola reflects on what ethical reflexivity that centres participants and the researched community might look like, and the limits of reflexivity in ensuring that research produces knowledge that matters to researched communities.
This session explores the opportunities and challenges of conducting research with LGBTQ+ people with lived experience of dementia, an underserved population both in research and service provision. The session draws on a co-design project in which an academic team, experts-by-experience, and a visual artist collaborated as equal to produce research outputs. The underlying ethos was based on the principle of ‘to each their own (expertise)’, principles for good practice.
Iona Pickett will share results from her PhD project, which aimed to explore perceptions of the relationship between identity and mental health, and understand how this varied within and between intersectional social identities. She will discuss the background and methodological justification for the project, reflect on the research process, and consider how these results relate to our understanding of mental health inequalities.
Drawing on Dr Amna Zaqout’s research with children, this session uses children’s drawings as an example to demonstrate how visual expression can offer insight into children’s inner worlds, particularly in relation to self-concept and emotional experience.
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.
Caroline C. Da Cunha Lewin (she/they) is a lived experience researcher and general nurse undertaking their doctorate in Health Service and Population Research, specialising in self-harm. Her work specifically uses qualitative methodology to consider the lived experience interpretation of self-harm. Other research interests include participatory methodology, social and trauma-informed understandings of mental distress and reflexivity in qualitative methods.
This interactive workshop will provide hands-on, in-depth training in appraising and developing good qualitative research, and introduce you to important general criteria for quality that can be applied in developing and assessing most qualitative research.
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This month, Mengying Zhang presents realist evaluation, a methodology for evaluating complex interventions; and Xiaoyang Li presents on Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, drawing on doctoral research exploring the lived experiences of caregivers of people with dementia in rural Chinese care homes.