Qualitative Special Interest Group (QSIG) – Recordings available

How to analyse large-scale qualitative data without losing the plot! Insights from a Randomised Controlled Trial of LSD Microdosing for Major Depressive Disorder with Carina Donegan.

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.

Please email us if you would like the workshop recording.

This presentation by Angie Pitt, a PhD student at King’s College London, will explore the relatively new and sensitive phenomenon of impostor participants in qualitative research: those who fake or exaggerate their identities to take part in paid research. Angie will share her experiences from a recent qualitative study exploring adolescent attitudes to vaccines where around 80% of potential participants were judged to be impostors, largely adults posing as teenagers, and explore the questions this raised.

In this session, Grace Horwood presents her research on ‘Mental Wealth’ and ‘Mental Fitness’: the discursive construction of mental health in the Australian news media during the COVID-19 pandemic