Qualitative Open Mic: Qualitative Conundrums - Harriet Boulding on impact in qualitative research

Qualitative research often brings up a lot of questions for researchers with much debate and few clear answers. This series aims to tackle some of the fundamental questions we face conducting qualitative research, and provide insight from experts into ways to address these qualitative conundrums.

In this episode:

Dr Harriet Boulding talks about impact in qualitative health research. Harriet specialises in the qualitative analysis of health systems and healthcare improvement research. She has experience of both UK-based and global health systems research, and has worked on projects including improving efficiency in NHS procurement, novel interventions for addressing childhood obesity, global health system strengthening across maternal, surgical and community platforms, and achieving impact from public health research.

Harriet considers what impact actually means, different ways of achieving impact, and how to build impact into the process of doing qualitative health research. She also discusses the role of activism in impact, gives some excellent examples of impact done well, and shares some resources to support planning for impact in research projects. 

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