2016 calendar

Date	Venue	Speaker	Title	Topic
Tuesday 19th January 12.30-13.30	SSR	Richella Ryan	Patients’ and carers’ experience of participating in a feasibility randomised controlled biomarker trial (BISCORT): a qualitative study	Patient interviews
Tuesday 16th February 12.30-13.30	SSR	Jenny Newbould	The tick and the talk: do patients’ survey responses relate to their narrated experience of primary care consultations?	Video elicitation
Easter Break
Thursday 26th May 14.00-15.00	LSR	Thelma Quince	Retiring reflections: Gin, tears, honesty and silence	Reflections
Tuesday 7th June 12.30-13.30	SSR	Tim Sharp	Advance Care Planning for Frail and Elderly Individuals – the perspective from GP Focus Group Discussions	Focus groups
Tuesday 12th July 12.30-13.30	SSR	Linda Birt	Participation in research as a means to explore the challenge of still being an active citizen following a diagnosis of dementia	Dementia research/ Ethnography
Summer Break
Tuesday 20th September 12.30-13.30	SSR	Robbie Duschinsky	Scaling Infant Mental Health: How deep the rabbit hole goes…	Ethnography
Tuesday 18th October 12.30-13.30	SSR	Fiona Scheibl	Using the project mapping tool in NVivo to visually examine complex qualitative data in a study of the oldest olds’ moving decisions	NVivo
Tuesday 15th November 12.30-13.30	SSR	Dominika Pindus	The experiences of primary care and community health services after stroke – Unmet needs of stroke survivors and caregivers	Systematic review
Tuesday 6th December 12.30-13.30	SSR	Elisa Liberati	Hospital interdisciplinary work in practice: The value and complexities of ‘doing’ ethnography in health service evaluation	Ethnography

 SSR = Small seminar room            LSR= Large seminar room

QRF Convenors

Sarah Hoare – seh91@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Katie Mills – ko298@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Brooke Swash – bes25@medschl.cam.ac.uk

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/