Qualitative Special Interest Group (QSIG)
The QSIG has two aims:
1) To provide a supportive non-judgemental space for students and staff interested in qualitative research to present their research, to discuss methodological challenges and innovations, to critique and generate ideas, and to learn about qualitative theory and methods.
2) To offer the opportunity to meet/network with other researchers and students undertaking/considering qualitative research in applied health from any academic discipline.
The QSIG offers:
Mid-day talks (including journal club)
QSIG mid-day talks offer an opportunity to present/share work. QSIG talks are held online on the last Monday of each month. Each meeting lasts approximately one hour.
As a part of the ‘mid-day talk’ set-up, the QSIG also offers a space for a journal club. The QSIG journal club offers an opportunity to review and discuss selected reading on a qualitative research topic, theoretically-driven text, or qualitative research training material.
Space on the QUAHRC website
QSIG members have the opportunity to showcase their work on the QUAHRC website.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
QSIG Midday Talk: Point of view filming and the elicitation interview
This presentation by Dr Jonathan Skinner from Surrey Business School will examine the use of digital glasses in healthcare settings. It will suggest that point of view recordings can be used as a means of eliciting tacit knowledge in protagonists. These ‘confrontations’ with footage have been suggested to be pre-reflective responses in trainee scenarios from ward rounds to A&E simulations.
QSIG Midday Talk: Co-design for digital health
Insights from creating an open access course, methods library and pilot support service: in this month’s QSIG, Emelia Delaney, Dr Lili Golmohammadi and Lana Samuels from the King’s Health Partners Digital Health Hub will discuss the development process behind the recently launched Co-design for digital health course, methods library, and complimentary pilot support service (one-to-one advice sessions and taster workshops on design co-methods).
QSIG Midday Talk: Using qualitative longitudinal research to investigate how Universal Credit impacts claimants with health conditions and disabilities
Dr Steph Morris presents findings of a longitudinal qualitative study (January 2022-April 2024) with 47 UC claimants who reported mental and/or physical health conditions. She will reflect on the benefits and the challenges of using a longitudinal methodology to explore and disseminate such policy relevant findings.
QSIG Midday Talk: Perfomance Practice as Research in the Health Context
Alex Mermikides will open with a brief overview of arts practice as research, an increasingly established methodology within arts and humanities research. She will then share examples from her own research, which uses performance-making to investigate medical experience.
QSIG Midday Talk: A participatory arts-based exploration of young people’s mental health following adverse childhood experiences
Simran Sansoy and Isabelle Butcher, based at the University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, will present the methodologies the ATTUNE project has utilised to date. This includes creative arts practice data, such as animation, photography, dance, as well as quantitative data.