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 Stephanie Archer (saa71@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

2020 calendar

Date	Venue	Speaker	Title
Monday 16th March, 2020 CANCELLED	Old Library, SRL	Prof Jonathan Mant & Dr Alison Powell	How has the qualitative research from the feasibility phase of the SAFER programme influenced the main trial?
Monday 6th April, 2020 CANCELLED	Old Library, SRL	Dr Jennifer McIntosh & Dr Kristi Milley	Working with consumers in research: a qualitative approach for a more meaningful outcome
Wednesday 6th May, 2020 12:30-13:30	Zoom- please contact Steph (saa71@medschl.cam.ac.uk) for details	Dr Lindsay Dewa	Young people’s perspectives on using technology to detect worsening mental health
Tuesday 2nd June, 2020 12:30-13:30	TBC	Dr Jon Roberts	Popular culture and genetics; friend, foe or something more complex?
Monday 6th July, 2020 POSTPONED	TBC	Dr Fiona Scheibl	Visual methods (diagrammatic elicitation) as an adjunct to in-depth interviews exploring patients attachment to medication
Summer Break
Tuesday 22nd September, 2020 POSTPONED	Zoom	Dr Fiona Scheibl	Visual methods (diagrammatic elicitation) as an adjunct to in-depth interviews exploring patients attachment to medication
Tuesday 20th October, 2020 12:30 – 13:30	Zoom	Megan Kelly	The Voices of Nursing ‘the Troubles’: An Analysis of Qualitative Research and Oral History as the preferred method for accessing ‘hidden narratives’ in post-conflict Northern Ireland.
Tuesday 3rd November, 2020 12:30-13:30	Zoom	Prof Jonathan Mant & Dr Alison Powell	How has the qualitative research from the feasibility phase of the SAFER programme influenced the main trial?
Tuesday 8th December, 2020 12:30 – 13:30	Zoom	Dr Emma Sowden	Making sense of a large multi-sited, multi-perspective data set (Optimise HFpEF)