Qualitative Special Interest Group (QSIG) – Slides available

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.

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.

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).

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.

Reflecting on an approach that combines Video-Reflexive Ethnography, Experience-Based Co-Design and creative thinking: Dr Clair Le Boutillier will present her fellowship study that explores how creative methods and design collaborations can be used to inform the co-design of digital personalised care and support planning for adults living with colorectal cancer.

Annie Irvine presents her experiences of using a multimedia mobile phone app to keep in touch with participants in a qualitative longitudinal study of transitions between work and welfare benefits, for people with mental health problems.