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Qualitative Special Interest Group
30 March 2026

QSIG Midday Talk: How do discourses travel?

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.

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RSS Ethics
27 March 2026

Participatory Research Ethics Surgery: communicating lived experience roles in research

People with lived experience are increasingly involved in (mental health) research as advisors, co-researchers and authors. This session will explore how lived experience (LE) roles are defined and described in ethics applications and funding applications, including who is considered a participant, what LE members are expected to do, and what responsibilities people can hold within projects.

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QUAHRC Seminar Series
20 January 2026

Rethinking Power in Autism Research: Intersectional, Participatory, and Afrocentric Futures?

This facilitated conversation brings together Olivia Matshabane and Monique Botha to examine how power, inclusion, and knowledge operate across neurodiversity research. Drawing on Olivia’s and other African scholars’ scholarship thinking about African neuroethics, cultural humility, and community-centred models of care, and Monique’s scholarship on neurodiversity as a collective, activist-led framework, the discussion will question whose knowledge shapes research agendas and whose lives are marginalised by dominant clinical and academic models. Together, they will explore what more accountable, political and decolonial directions in neurodiversity research might look like.

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Qualitative Special Interest Group
19 January 2026

QSIG Midday Talk: Conversation Analysis and the making and unmaking of disability

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.

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Qualitative Special Interest Group
3 November 2025

QSIG Midday Talk: “I think that’s just confirmation bias”: A worked case example of reflexive thematic analysis from a survivor standpoint

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.

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RSS Ethics
8 September 2025

Are they who they say they are? Exploring impostor / fraudulent participants in qualitative research and PPIE

Are they who they say they are? Exploring impostor / fraudulent participants in qualitative research and PPIE

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RSS Methods
15 July 2025

Developing good qualitative research questions: an NIHR RSS webinar

Join the NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) Hub at King’s College London for an interactive session designed to help you craft clear, focused, and purposeful qualitative research questions.

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RSS Ethics
23 May 2025

Using co-design in Health Services Research

Join the NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) Hub at King’s College London for a taster training session on Using co-design in Health Services Research. This group session will provide a space to consider co-design and its application in your research and grant applications.

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Qualitative Special Interest Group
19 May 2025

QSIG Midday Talk: 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.

Please email us if you would like the workshop recording.

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Qualitative Special Interest Group
28 April 2025

QSIG Midday Talk: Realist evaluation and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

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.

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Qualitative Special Interest Group
24 February 2025

QSIG Midday Talk: Impostor participants in qualitative research

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.

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RSS Ethics
13 February 2025

Participatory Research Ethics Surgery

Are you feeling stuck or uncertain about how to handle ethical issues in your research? Are you grappling with ethical dilemmas, such as balancing power dynamics, navigating conflicting stakeholder interests, or ensuring genuine participation? The NIHR RSS KCL Hub, in partnership with Inspiring Ethics, is hosting Participatory Research Ethics Surgery Sessions to help you navigate and resolve ethical issues in your qualitative research.

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