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Booking now open: Introduction to qualitative methods summer school, 21-25 July 2025

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Recording now available: Health research under siege

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Working with Afghan Sanctuary Seekers: A guide for mental health professionals

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New horizons and opportunities for qualitative research to improve mental health in later life

The Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre (QUAHRC) at King’s College London (KCL) promotes the rigorous and innovative application of qualitative research within the health field, raising the visibility of high-quality qualitative research and providing opportunities for knowledge exchange, training and support.

The Qualitative Open Mic Podcast

Our podcast asks why we do qualitative research, how do we do it well, and how it can be effectively applied

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16 Apr 2025

Neurodiversity Matters: Morénike Giwa Onaiwu on antiracist advocacy

Has qualitative research been complacent about its ability to highlight marginalised perspectives? Sohail speaks to Dr Morénike Giwa Onaiwu about forthcoming anthology "Neurodiversity en Noir" and platforming Black neurodivergent voices.

Podcast

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19 Mar 2025

Neurodiversity Matters: Monique Botha on funding priorities and community justice

This month, Sohail interviews Dr Monique Botha about funding and priority setting, citational justice, emotion in research, and why letting community-led neurodivergence research out of its silo would benefit neurotypical and neurodivergent populations alike.

Podcast

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19 Feb 2025

Neurodiversity Matters: Damian Milton on double empathy and autistic worlds

How have mainstream theories of autism missed the mark by failing to qualitatively explore internal autistic worlds? Sohail speaks to legend among autistic autism researchers Dr Damian Milton about the double empathy problem and its broader implications for neurodivergent and neurotypical-led research.

Podcast

Events

Upcoming seminars, journal club meetings, and other events at King's College London.

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19 May 2025, 12:00 to 13:00

QSIG workshop: Quality criteria in qualitative psychology research

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.

21-25 July

Booking now open: Introduction to Qualitative Methods Short Course

This year we're expanding our annual summer school, "An Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods", from four days to five. It will run from Monday 21 - Friday 25 July.

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Upcoming events

Impact in Qualitative Research Blog

The latest posts from our impact blog

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Ella Parry-Davies on co-researching outcomes for domestic workers after trafficking and exploitation

Dr Ella Parry-Davies is a lecturer at King’s College London, where she works on social justice-focussed research in collaboration with experts-by-experience, primarily in the migration and anti-trafficking sectors. Taking up performance as a co-creative research method, she has worked most extensively with migrant domestic workers in the UK and Lebanon, and her book Intimate Inequalities: Performing Migrant Domestic Work is forthcoming with Northwestern University Press in September 2025. In this blog post she discusses the findings of research on the outcomes for workers who had survived trafficking and returned to the Philippines as their country of origin.

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Sharli Paphitis and Sohail Jannesari on prioritising the voices of human trafficking survivors to develop a holistic approach to recovery

Dr Sharli Paphitis is a Senior Research Fellow in Qualitative Research at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on epistemic justice, mental health, and community-based participatory methods. Dr Sohail Jannesari is a Research Fellow at King’s College London and a Senior Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London. His research focuses on migration and mental health, outcomes for survivors of human trafficking, creative, participatory and decolonial methods, equitable knowledge production, and research ethics. In this blog, they discuss the importance of prioritising the voices of human trafficking survivors to develop a holistic approach to recovery.

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Caroline Lawlor on developing the Managing Emotions Group

Dr Caroline Lawlor is a Senior Clinical Psychologist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and a Research Affiliate at King’s College London. In this blog she writes about the role of qualitative work in developing a new group therapy supporting to help people with psychosis manage their emotions.

News

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Peer Support in Action: Observations from the CommonGround community

The CommonGround research team share reflections on watching the birth and growth of a peer support online community for people with long-term conditions.

19 Feb 2025

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Save the date for our expanded summer school

This year we're expanding our annual summer school, "An Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods", from four days to five. It will run from Monday 21 - Friday 25 July.

06 Feb 2025

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Research projects

CommonGround: Online peer support for preventing comorbid depression in people with long-term conditions

Refocus on Recovery

Developing and testing a recovery intervention in NHS Adult Community Mental Health Teams

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Digital personalised cancer care planning

Coproducing personalised care in a digital age: using the Adversity, Restoration and Compatibility (ARC) framework to inform the co-design of a digital care planning tool for people with colorectal cancer