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 periodically 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 Joshua Gallagher (jjmg4@medschl.cam.ac.uk) or Ben Bowers (bb527@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

You can sign up for QRF updates here!

2022 calendar for QRF

Date	Venue	Speaker	Title
Tuesday 18th January 12:30-13:30	Zoom	Dr Robbie Duschinsky	Being different: qualitative researchers in a positivist world
February (POSTPONED)	Zoom	Dr Naomi Richards	The Equity Turn in Palliative and End of Life Care: Learning from Poverty Studies
March (POSTPONED)	Zoom	Victoria Hardy	Agreement between patient’s abdominal symptoms of possible upper gastrointestinal cancer and General Practitioner consultation notes: a qualitative analysis of video-recorded UK primary care consultation data
Easter Break
Tuesday 26th April 12:30-13:30	Zoom	Dr Fiona Scheibl	‘There is not a break really for us to be able to step in’: an institutional ethnography of the rehabilitation of hip fracture patients with cognitive impairment on acute wards.
Tuesday 17th May 12:30-13:30	Zoom	Dr Rachel Shaw	Understanding & Improving Staff Wellbeing in Paediatric Intensive Care: A partnership between Birmingham Women’s & Children’s NHS Foundation Trust & Aston University to prioritise workplace wellbeing
Tuesday 31st May 12:30-13:30	Zoom	Dr Naomi Richards	The Equity Turn in Palliative and End of Life Care: Learning from Poverty Studies
June (POSTPONED)	Zoom	Dr Atiya Kamal	Exploring experiences of managing the risks of COVID-19 in the home – ‘managing the risks of COVID in the home’
Tuesday 12th July 12.30-13.30	Zoom	Dr Tessa Morgan	Love and willing life
Summer Break
Tuesday 20th September 12.30-13.30	Zoom	Dr Tessa Morgan	Problematising carer identification: A narrative study with older partner’s providing end-of-life care
Tuesday 25th October 12.30-13.30	Zoom	Dr Simon Etkind	Using thematic synthesis: experiences from two literature reviews exploring care preferences and uncertainty
Tuesday 29th November 12.30-13.30	Zoom	Dr Atiya Kamal	Exploring experiences of managing the risks of COVID-19 in the home – ‘managing the risks of COVID in the home’
Tuesday 13th December 12.30-13.30	Zoom	Dr Stephanie Archer	User-centred design: CanRisk