2017 calendar

Date	Venue	Speaker	Title
Tuesday 17th January 1-2pm	LSR	Mary Dixon-Woods	What qualitative research can tell us about measurement
Tuesday 28th March 12:30-1:30pm	SSR	Sarah Hoare	Exploring ‘inappropriate’ end-of-life hospital admissions
Tuesday 25th April 12:30-1:30pm	SSR	Jon Roberts	‘Funds of knowledge’ a new tool to engage the non-engaged with genomics
Tuesday 6th June 12:30-1:30pm	SSR	Nadia Llanwarne	Safety in primary care relating to melanoma diagnosis – what can we learn from interviews with patients recently diagnosed with melanoma?
Tuesday 27th June 12:30-1:30pm	SSR	Natasha Kriznik	Developing a tiered consent process for individuals recruited to longitudinal research using a case study of NHS blood and platelet donors
Tuesday 25th July 12:30-1:30pm	SSR	Clarissa Penfold	Reflections on building rapport with primary brain tumour patients: exploring symptom recognition and interpretation and the challenge of cognitive, behavioural and personality change
Summer Break
Tuesday 19th September 12:30-1:30pm	SSR	Mike Kelly	The use of qualitative research in policy and practice: examples from guideline development
Tuesday 31st October 12:30-1:30pm	SSR	Jenni Burt	Flying Without Wings: doing great qualitative research in HSR
Tuesday 21st November 12:30-1:30pm	SSR	Sophie Reijman	tbc
Tuesday 5th December 12:30-1:30pm	SSR	Christi Deaton	tbc

 SSR = Small seminar room            LSR= Large seminar room

QRF Convenors:

Sarah Hoare

Brooke Swash

Katie Mills

Elka Humphrys

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/