About QRF

The QRF is a monthly meeting series welcoming anyone who is conducting or interested in qualitative research in health and healthcare. Members include both University research staff and clinical staff from Addenbrookes.

Each month a different speaker leads a session, often on their own research (this can be at any stage – during planning, data collection, while analysing data, or following the completion of the study) but sometimes also on issues or debates within qualitative research more broadly. Members can also bring problems or dilemmas to the group to ask for feedback or advice – we sometimes host “troubleshooting” sessions to cater for these.

We are on the look-out for speakers, so if you have something you would like to present (or know of someone who would) then please do get in touch! If you would like more information or you would like to be added to the mailing list please contact either Tish (natasha.kriznik@thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk) or Elisa (elisa.liberati@thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk).

 

 

2019 calendar

Date	Venue	Speaker	Title
Tuesday 15th January 12.30-13.30	Room 303, Clifford Allbutt Building	Elisa and Tish to chair	Troubleshooting session: dealing with chatty and not-so-chatty interviewees
Tuesday 26th February 12.30-13.30	SSR	Karolina Kuberska	Bereavement care following pregnancy loss: 3 things to know
Tuesday 12th March 12:30-13:30	Room 303, Clifford Allbutt Bulding	Elisa and Tish to chair	Troubleshooting session: Open discussion on qualitative research
Tuesday 16th April 12:30-13:30	HSB	CANCELLED – EASTER
Thursday 9th May 12:30-13:30	SSR	Ben Bowers	General Practitioners’ decisions about prescribing anticipatory medicines at the end of life
Monday 10th June 12:30-13:30	HSB	Graham Martin	Uncovering concerns or creating problems? Enacting a new role to support staff who raise issues about quality and safety in the English NHS
Tuesday 16th July 12:30-13:30	HSB	Ryc Aquino	Using qualitative methods in process evaluations: Examples from the Improving Primary Care After Stroke trial
Summer Break
Tuesday 24th September 12:30-13:30	Dorothy and Thomas, SRL	Robert Pralat	Technologies of desire: The demand for medical interventions and moral judgements about public funding of healthcare
Tuesday 22th October 12:30-13:30	Dorothy and Thomas, SRL	Elisa to chair	Troubleshooting session: ethnography
Change of date: Thursday 28th November 12:30-13:30	Change of location: PostDoc Centre Biomedical Campus	Arjun Kingdon	TBC
Change of date: Thursday 12th  December 12:30 – 13:30	Dorothy and Thomas, SRL	Matt Barclay	TBC

Locations:

SSR = Small seminar room, Cambridge Institute of Public Health

HSB = Herchel Smith Building

Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus

Dorothy and Thomas Room at Strangeways Research Laboratory

QRF Convenors:

Elisa Liberati
Natasha Kriznik
Sophie Reijman

All the latest news from QRF

• The unusual perks of my research job: Dr Sophie Reijman - Dr Sophie Reijman, research associate at the Applied Social Science Group, explains how her career has unfolded so far. The dynamics of family relationships and how these influence children’s mental and physical health are an important part of our research at the Applied Social Science Group here at the University of Cambridge. Read Sophie’s article
• ‘I thought it was just me’: mutual benefit from public involvement in research - Blog by Dr Anna Spathis, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Associate Specialty Director in Palliative Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine and Dr Stephen Barclay, University Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care, Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge. Teenage and young adults with cancer have inspired and steered a novel research study to develop a treatment […]
• What makes social life possible? How the human brain connects with the complex social world around us - The social lives of humans shape and influence biological processes taking place in our brains, according to a new theoretical framework linking sociological thinking with insights from neuroscience. The new framework, from Professor Mike Kelly, sociologist at the Primary Care Unit and Professor Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience and colleagues from the […]
• Ambulance staff describe hospital as only feasible place of care for dying patients - Ambulance staff are responding to the needs of dying patients by taking them to hospital because of a lack of alternative community-based forms of care and limited access to patient information, according to a paper published in Palliative Medicine. The study, a sociological analysis of the experiences of ambulance staff attending to patients close to […]
• QRF: New Qualitative Research Forum 2015 Programme - Please see QRF programme 2015 for the latest Events, and the new information web page here – http://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/pcu/research/qrf/