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 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.
Since October 7 2023, hundreds of Palestinian medics and healthcare workers killed or detained, all 12 universities in Gaza have been destroyed, and healthcare facilities have been decimated including at time of recording 20 out of 22 hospitals in Northern Gaza. Amidst this devastation, conducting qualitative and participatory health research presents profound challenges and moral dilemmas. This seminar explores the how Palestinian researchers have reacted and adapted.
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
Qualitative health researchers are on a journey to becoming more reflective, ethical and supportive researchers, but do we need university ethics committees to do this? Sohail Jannesari, Nooshin Asgari, and Stan Papoulias discuss